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Life at SAIT 

Susan joined the School of Business in 2002 and teaches several accounting and business application courses, including Financial Accounting and Computer Applications. She has also taught in the Continuing Education and Corporate Training departments. As an instructor, Susan enjoys making difficult concepts easy to understand. She values empathy, a good sense of humor, and total commitment to her students as foundational principles for her pedagogical approaches. Teaching has been a lifelong passion and journey for Susan, having first started tutoring her younger colleagues as a primary school student.   

Outside teaching, Susan loves to golf, rollerblade, figure skate, do needlework, paint and volunteer with City of Calgary Seniors.   

Education 

Susan has business administration and computers diplomas from NAIT. She is certified in Excel and data analytics. Susan is also a certified professional accountant (CPA) with CPA Alberta.  

Professional Accomplishments

Susan’s industry career has involved serving in various executive and consultancy roles for oil and gas companies and accounting consultancies. She also has her own consultancy where she is the chief consultant and president, mostly responsible for bookkeeping, analysis, and software systems integration for small businesses. Susan also taught at the Centre for Newcomers and Aboriginal Financial Officers Association of Alberta (AFOA). Through her remarkable career, Susan has also discovered a passion for change management and new systems integration, a thought process she welcomes in her classrooms. 

 

a view of the moutains and stream in between

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SAIT is located on the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of Treaty 7 which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Îyârhe Nakoda of Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney.

We are situated in an area the Blackfoot tribes traditionally called Moh’kinsstis, where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. We now call it the city of Calgary, which is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta.

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