Suzanne Muchin

Suzanne Muchin is co-founder and CEO of Bonfire, a company created to ignite the power of women to change the rules of the modern workforce. She is also a clinical professor at the Kellogg School of Management. Suzanne is the onstage host of TEDx Chicago and co-host (with Rachel Bellow) of the popular podcast The Big Payoff. Suzanne is a leader in Chicago’s entrepreneurship community, having been part of building the brands and social impact strategies for some of the city’s most well-known organizations and initiatives, including 1871, MATTER, Impact Engine, and P33.

Muchin is the co-founder and principal of Mind + Matter Studio, a brand strategy firm that shapes ideas that make the world more beautiful, equitable, sustainable or enlightened. With her long-time business partner (and M+MS co-founder), Rachel Bellow, Suzanne is also the host of the WGN radio show and podcast, The Big Payoff.

Before launching Mind + Matter Studio, Suzanne was a founding Partner and Lead Strategist of Frequency540, a strategic communications agency that acquired her first brand strategy firm, ROI Ventures (Return on Inspiration)— a strategy firm that packaged social impact for the marketplace. With Rachel, Suzanne launched and developed ROI Ventures’ incubator (Return on Inspiration Labs, LLC) and its media arm (ROI Distributed, LLC). She was inducted into the Chicago Entrepreneur Hall of Fame in 2012 for these ventures.

A frequent public speaker and guest lecturer at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, Suzanne is also an investor in impact companies, a mentor to entrepreneurs at 1871, TechStars and Impact Engine, and an LP and advisory board member for MATH Ventures Partners. She is a Wexner Heritage Member, and on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Children’s Museum, the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center (1871), and Piece & Co, LLC.