Susan Clark is a mission-driven marketer, audience-centric executive, and experienced leader of teams. She has experience in corporate, cultural, nonprofit, and higher education settings, and enjoys working with organizations with a sense of strong purpose who are seeking to pivot or grow.
She joined the General Board of Global Ministries (GBGM)/United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) as chief communications officer in 2022. With operations in more than 115 countries, Global Ministries serves as the mission, humanitarian aid and recovery agency of The United Methodist Church.
Susan served as the chief marketing officer and associate dean for marketing & communication at Emory University School of Law for more than nine years, serving on the dean’s cabinet and senior staff. She led the school’s internal and external communications efforts and helped enhance the school’s national reputation among legal scholars, lawyers, and judges. She oversaw marketing and communication, event management, and journals activities at the law school, including enrollment marketing efforts for the school’s degree programs, the Juris Doctor, Juris Master, and Master of Laws programs.
She spent more than eight years as director of marketing and communications at the High Museum of Art, where she gained global exposure for the High’s ambitious $164 million architectural expansion and exhibition programs. She created innovative audience engagement plans and advertising campaigns for the High’s architectural expansion, three-year Louvre Atlanta partnership with the Musée du Louvre, and other exhibitions and events. She supervised $9 million in earned revenue at the High, with responsibility for marketing and communication, membership, visitor services, group sales, and special events. She grew the High’s membership program to more than 40,000 households, supervising up to the Circles $5,000 giving level. She formed a CMO Council that was sponsored by Accenture, and she invited community engagement groups to bring new and innovative thinking to the High’s audience engagement efforts to bring younger and more diverse audiences to the museum.
Prior to her move to the High, Susan worked in various brand management positions at Eastman Kodak’s US Consumer Imaging Division in Atlanta, Georgia and SC Johnson & Sons, Inc in Racine, Wisconsin. She began her career in Virginia, working in hunger and poverty education and relief for a church-affiliated hunger relief organization named Society of St. Andrew, and opened its first regional office in North Carolina.
Susan holds a Master of Business Administration in marketing and management and strategy from the JL Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Arts in public policy and political science from Duke University.
Susan is a member of St. Luke Lutheran Church in Atlanta. She has served as secretary for her homeowners association board of directors since 2019. She sang with Octave, an Atlanta women’s a cappella group, for twelve years. In her free time, Susan enjoys adventurous travel, historical fiction, hiking and camping, entertaining on her porch, and hanging out with her amazing daughter. Sometimes, she remembers to practice piano. Though she has lived in Atlanta since 1999, she calls the Eastern Shore of Maryland home.
Of Note
You Should Know: Susan Clark, Lenz Marketing Client Profile, September 2, 2016
‘Tut’, ‘First Emperor’ exhibits galvanize Atlanta arts, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 15, 2009
Susan A. Clark Professional Portfolio 