Shushan Aleaqui is a seasoned executive who understands the complexities of leadership at the highest levels. Having navigated growth, scale, and cultural transformation inside some of the world’s most demanding corporate environments, she brings a rare blend of science, strategy, and lived leadership experience to her work with seasoned attorneys, CEOs, and executive teams.
Her work is transforming the way leaders think, act, and succeed—making her a trusted advisor and a catalyst for profound, sustainable change.
After experiencing executive burnout herself, Ms. Aleaqui became committed to reshaping how leaders lead so they can drive exceptional performance without sacrificing their vitality. This turning point deeply informs her work today. She partners with leaders to examine the internal architectures that shape their decision-making—the belief systems, cognitive patterns, and performance identities that once fueled their rise but may now be constraining their next level of growth.
Ms. Aleaqui is the Founder and CEO of Shushan Consulting LLC, a leadership consulting practice specifically tailored to serve high-performing leaders and their teams in achieving their highest level of business and lifestyle success.
Prior to founding the firm, she built a distinguished career spanning more than two decades, leading and transforming multi-billion-dollar operations across a diverse range of organizations—from start-ups to Fortune 50 companies—including Nextel, Sprint, Ericsson Global, Comcast, and Cablevision.
Her experience navigating these complex environments equipped her with a unique ability to manage large-scale, highly complex, and time-sensitive business transformations with both operational rigor and innovative thinking.
Ms. Aleaqui’s reputation is built on her unwavering commitment to client excellence. Her Rapid Transformation System™, a proprietary five-step methodology, integrates advanced principles from performance psychology, leadership science, neuroscience, energy medicine, and real-world executive experience. This holistic approach delivers exceptional results. Clients consistently report measurable improvements in their professional impact, strategic clarity, and personal freedom. Many note that working with Ms. Aleaqui accelerated their growth—bypassing years of traditional development approaches and eliminating self-sabotaging patterns that previously limited their success.
Based in New York City, Ms. Aleaqui holds a Bachelor of Science in Business from Northeastern University. She has further refined her expertise through executive certifications in Leadership, Business Strategy, and Implementation from Harvard Business School, The Wharton School, and The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
“During a significant organizational transition, including changes at the senior executive level, working with Shushan had a meaningful impact on our leadership team. She brought discipline and strategic clarity to high-stakes conversations, helping us thoughtfully transition senior leaders while maintaining alignment and stability across the team. From my perspective as General Counsel, her discretion, sound judgment, and nuanced understanding of executive risk elevated decision-making at the highest levels. As a result, we navigated a critical inflection point with greater cohesion, clarity, and confidence. I would highly recommend her to any leadership team or executive managing transitions or broader organizational change.“
Denise Olmsted
General Counsel, Satellite Industry
“I always considered myself a very successful person…I enjoyed a great corporate career, I have a wonderfully supportive family, and all the toys I ever wanted. I checked all the boxes. Shushan
so expertly helped me discover and connect the dots on what was happening, what my own role was,
and most importantly how to fix it. It required deep work, a lot of vulnerability, and being honest with
myself, but she made it easy and effortless.”
Daeu Angert
Founder & President, Art Industry
“Shushan has been brilliant at helping identify the limiting thought patterns and beliefs that were getting in the way of my happiness and success. She then showed me how to dissect and diffuse those unhelpful thoughts and replace them with the kind of beliefs that make anything possible. The tools she gave me left me feeling empowered and happier. Working with Shushan for just a few hours was
more productive than anything else I tried. I’m so glad I opened my mind and my heart and trusted her!”
Linzie Janis
Correspondent, Broadcast Industry
“I cannot say enough positive things about Shushan Aleaqui. She is one of a kind. We were determined to cross paths at a time in my life when I needed her most. She continues to guide me on my journey, but more importantly, she is showing me how to guide myself. Her intuition, knowledge, and commitment to her clients is above anything else I have ever experienced. I know that my life is better, and I am better because she is in it. I am so thankful and humbled to be working with her. She will show you how to take your business, and frankly your life, into your hands and shape it. If overcoming stagnant beliefs and achieving what you want for your business and life is your goal, I highly recommend working with her.”
Ryan Stender
CEO, Insurance Industry
“I was complacent with my work-life balance and was seeking to break some established patterns…I had no idea what I was getting into when I found Shushan, but it has been nothing but beyond transformational…Shushan had amassed an extraordinary set of knowledge, tools and techniques to help reconnect with your internal compass. With her down-to-earth wisdom, she tailors the process to your needs and personal journey. Shushan is there to guide and support you in your ebb and flow with
tenacity, compassion, and a bit of magic – my “Mary Poppins of the 21st century” for adults.”
Mar Tarres
Product Executive
“I am fortunate to have Shushan as an executive advisor and fully recommend her. It will simply be one of the best decisions you make for your career and your life. She is a gifted and talented advisor, leader, and partner equipped with strategies, tools, and techniques which help you achieve your highest potential. Shushan also draws on her own corporate leadership experience, through her unique and focused lens, which accelerates your insights and capabilities. You will be amazed at how quick and powerful the transformations are in your career and life.”
Mariam Sorond
Chief Research and Development Officer, Technology Industry
“Working with Shushan has been life changing. I was at a pivotal point in my career and life and realized I needed support to help me in bringing my authentic self to my life – personal and professional. Part of that was learning to unearth my unique way of showing up as a leader. Shushan uses her phenomenal insight, truth telling and presence to help you identify a path forward to being more effective in whatever setting you are in, while being wildly true to yourself. She is gifted in helping you recognize your patterns and how they can either help or hinder you on your leadership journey. She encourages you to experiment and look at things from multiple perspectives which has created the ability for me to take on challenges in a completely different way. I cannot recommend her any more highly as an executive advisor.”
Jenny Gumm, Ed.D.
Chief Human Resources Officer, Biotechnology Industry
“I have been working with Shushan for more than a year on key career goals and enhancing my effectiveness within my organization. In that time, she has added a great deal of value in supporting my ability to execute on my goals, represent my department and company with greater executive presence and creatively (proactively) respond to problems as they arise. My time with her has been
more productive and valuable than the time I have spent with other advisors in the past. If you are
considering working with an executive advisor, I highly recommend that you have a conversation with
Shushan.”
Craig Bach
Vice President, Education Industry
“Shushan’s executive leadership coaching is second to none. She partnered with me in the truest sense of the word during a time of major transition. There are many nuances to leadership and culture that Shushan is well versed and skilled in honing in on. She has the ability to see and know what the issues and opportunities are and skillfully helped me navigating some extremely critical conversations. She also enhanced my effectiveness by focusing on my areas of strength and helping me tap into the strengths of my executive team members. I highly recommend Shushan’s executive advisory practice if you’re in transition and even if you simply want to move to your own peak performance.”
Dara Munson
President and CEO, Non-profit Industry
