Speakers Bio

International Speaker, Business & Sales Executive, Author, Mountain Climber Susan Ershler tours the world speaking about her life journey and sharing with others her secrets for success, determination, and achieving seemingly impossible goals.

Susan's record would be remarkable enough if it only detailed her business achievements.  During her 23-year corporate career, she has held a series of increasingly responsible executive positions in the sales divisions of Fortune 500 companies.  She led teams to sales records, beating quotas from $1 million to $600 million.  Ending as a vice president of sales for a multi-national telecommunications corporation, she was responsible for their fast-growing Internet division.  She also worked at US WEST, United Technologies, FedExKinko's, and GTE (Verizon).  During her business career, she earned 11 annual President's Club sales awards - the top honors awarded to the sales people in these companies.

But as she was marking these achievements, she and her husband Phil, a professional mountain guide, were climbing the Seven Summits - the highest mountain on each of the world's seven continents.

That remarkable journey culminated at the top of Mount Everest on May 16, 2002.  With that climb, she and Phil became the first couple in history to climb the Seven Summits together.  They've written a book on their adventure, Together on Top of the World: A True Story of Love and Courage, published by Warner Books.