Guest Profile

Susan Duval

With 30 years of experience in event planning, public relations, sales andmarketing, and exploring the spiritual path, Susan Duval is doing what she loves the most--organizing seminars for Personal Growth, Holistic Health, Healing, Spirituality and Metaphysics.Susan also LOVES to travel, and hosts Sacred Journeys all over the USA and the world!  Her business has been going strong for 15 years, with a loyal following at her events and many repeat travelers.The loss of many loved ones, starting in 1976, propelled Susan to explore the unseen realms, spirituality and metaphysics.Although she grew up in a small town in upstate New York and attended Catholic school, she was always fascinated by foreign cultures and other traditions. She was an exchange student in Brittany, France in high school, and did her Junior Year Abroad in Grenoble. After graduating from Boston College with a BA in French, she received an MBA in International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona.  Upon graduation, she worked for Rockresorts at Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Teton National Park and at Caneel Bay Plantation, in St John, US Virgin Islands, before heading to France as a Rotary Scholar for additional business management studies at the Universite de Caen.  After a year working in international steel sales in Houston, Susan moved back to France, where she helped start up a headhunting company and was hired by a Parisian PR firm as the Account Executive for Christian Dior. Always an organizer and a conduit for creating community, Susan initiated the French and European Alumni Associations of her graduate school, facilitating local and European-wide alumni gatherings, which continue to this day. Wherever she travels, Susan enjoys exploring other cultures, languages and religions...Israel, Peru, the Ivory Coast, all of Europe, and the western States. New destinations are always in the works!Single, 2 awesome bi-lingual, dual-national children, ages 26 and 28...her pride and joy!  Susan is open to meeting a great guy to share life’s adventures!