Regional Leaders & RI Membership Support 

Suzan Stenberg, RI Zones 17-18 Director 1.7.2024 - 30.6.2026

Rotary Club of Östersund Åre, Sweden

Suzan Stenberg owns a consulting business dedicated to business development and management training for university students. She also runs summer school programs for teenagers and teaches them entrepreneurship, innovation, economics, and business law.

A former Rotary Youth Exchange student in Manhattan, Kansas, Stenberg took sales and marketing courses at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., before returning to Sweden to work in information technology. At Microsoft, she worked in business development before moving into learning and training, where she helped start the Microsoft University program and establish the certification industry for IT professionals in Sweden. She ended her 20 years at Microsoft serving on the company’s leadership team in Sweden and overseeing small-business marketing as well as education and certification programs in Nordic countries.

Stenberg developed a business incubator in Åre in conjunction with Swedish universities as well as a science park that coaches startups and drives innovation in local companies. She has served on the boards of many Swedish startups and publicly listed technology companies. "I want to help build a culture of innovation to revitalize Rotary," Stenberg says.

A member of Rotary since 2009, Stenberg has served Rotary as a representative to the Council on Legislation, district trainer, Rotary coordinator, learning facilitator for a governors-elect training seminar, and regional Rotary Foundation coordinator.

Stenberg organizes the annual Åre Rotary Wild Camp, which invites all of the Rotary Youth Exchange students in Sweden to enjoy Jämtland County’s natural beauty. "These are the things that make me proud of Rotary because I know we change lives, one person at a time," she says.

Stenberg is a part of Women in Action, a group of female Rotary members from the Nordic region who meet and work on projects together and have helped supply incubators to hospitals in Lithuania. Her mascot teddy bear, Benny, has his own Instagram account and helps her raise funds for End Polio Now.

Outside of Rotary, Stenberg is active in scouting and volunteers to help refugees find jobs. She loves skiing, kayaking, and biking.

She and her husband, Göran Stenberg, support The Rotary Foundation as Major Donors and members of the Paul Harris Society, District 2230’s PolioPlus Society, and the Bequest Society.