Susan McLeod, MA, Founding Publisher of ENERGYPARENTING.com and Certified Nurtured Heart Specialist, is the delighted mother of a formerly difficult child and his little brother.

She earned a Master's degree in Strategic Communication & Leadership from Seton Hall University and is the president of Summa Consulting LLC, devoted to helping social entrepreneurs fund their missions. She has 15 years of business management, corporate & government communications and journalism experience and serves as Chair for the Arizona Institute's Early Childhood Development Council. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with her husband and two sons.