Small team. International reach.

As Managing Director of the HayesCulleton Group, Susan HayesCulleton, CFA, works with companies, organisations, educators, audiences and partners to build ambitious programmes, meaningful events, strong public conversations and learning experiences that genuinely move people forward. She leads that work across business, economics, markets, financial literacy, education and scalable learning — bringing together strategy, delivery, communication and the wider business architecture needed to make complex ideas work in the real world.

Susan also presents Taking Stock on Newstalk and works as an international economics broadcaster, speaker and MC. What makes that public-facing work distinctive is that it comes from leading a business from the inside: she isn't commenting on business and economics from a distance, but from the lived reality of building, leading, partnering, delivering and communicating every day.

Over the past decade the Group has built Savvy Teens, cultivating scalable, high-impact ecosystems for tens of thousands of teenagers — spaces that are both welcoming and challenging, helping young people feel comfortable while encouraging them to push beyond their comfort zones. That same ambition drives Active Peers AI, a core pillar of the Group's work, which specialises in scalable, tailored peer learning: bringing different stakeholders together, tailoring each participant's experience at scale through proprietary technology, and demonstrating impact in a rigorous way.

Susan is a CFA charterholder and the author of seven books, including co-authoring the Leaving Cert Economics textbook three times with teachers in Ireland. What matters most to her is working with people who are keen to make things happen — and helping turn that ambition into something thoughtful, energising and real.

And on a slightly personal note: her favourite form of business education is public companies' earnings calls.