StartProf. Susan Fowler

Prof. Susan Fowler

Prof. Susan Fowler
Prof. Susan Fowler University of San Diego
Susan N. Fowler is a professor in the Master's of Science in Executive Leadership at the University of San Diego. Susan Fowler is one of the world’s most trusted translators of motivation science into real-world practice — bringing the latest research to leaders, coaches, parents, and individuals across all 50 states and 40+ countries.

Prof. Susan Fowler

Susan N. Fowler is a professor in the Master’s of Science in Executive Leadership at the University of San Diego. Susan Fowler is one of the world’s most trusted translators of motivation science into real-world practice — bringing the latest research to leaders, coaches, parents, and individuals across all 50 states and 40+ countries. Author of two bestsellers, Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work … and What Does (14 languages) and Master Your Motivation, and co-author of Self Leadership and The One Minute Manager with Ken Blanchard, Susan’s work is grounded in a simple but profound truth: optimal motivation isn’t a reward for achieving your goals. It’s the condition that makes achieving them possible.

How Science Proves We Don’t Have to Choose Between Thriving and Achieving.

One of the great discoveries of motivation science is this: our basic human nature is to thrive. Not merely to survive — to flourish. Yet somewhere along the way, most people learn to settle for a kind of motivation that feels like obligation, pressure, or low-grade dread. And that suboptimal motivation steadily undermines everything — performance, well-being, relationships, and joy.

Susan Fowler’s presentation goes beyond Maslow, Drive Theory, and other popular but outdated ideas about motivation. She introduces MojoThriving — her innovative approach to motivation grounded in Self-Determination Theory — to help individuals understand the quality of their motivation, goal by goal, moment by moment.

Drawing on cutting-edge research, Susan introduces three psychological nutrients that every human being needs in order to thrive: Choice (the sense that you are the author of your own actions), Connection (the sense that what you do and who you do it with genuinely matter), and Competence (the sense that you are growing and moving forward).

Attendees will learn to identify their own motivational outlook, discover how to shift it toward something more sustainable and vitalizing, and reflect on what changes. Thriving and achieving are not competing ambitions. MojoThriving™ shows you how to pursue both — simultaneously.