Suzanne Maxx's Biography
Suzanne is a pragmatic visionary dedicated to the World Team project with the end goal of her life’s work to bring forward a consciousness for global transformation. Maxx is a Writer/Producer and entrepreneur. She is the Founder, and President of the social and environmental non-profit, World Team Now, the CEO of start-up, World Team- Building, LLC, and the leader of the emergent World Team multi-media platform.
She has produced many global “outside of the box” projects since her first international production, sponsored by Coca-Cola, which was part of the Asia Pacific Expo, in Japan 1989. She is presently working on several renewable energy demonstration building projects to launch the multi-media project, World Team. Her ability to generate, produce and foresee events often sets trends and creates iconoclastic global productions. She juggles several life paths as a professional writer, producer, actress, speaker, athlete, teacher and coach.
The vision of a world team inspired Suzanne to use media to actually “tell-a-vision”. She is pioneering the positive non-scripted genre, “Actuality Television” with the development of the World Team® television multi-media project and its game-changing platform.
Suzanne is the Founder/Chairman/ President of the non-profit organization, World Team Now (WTN). Through Suzanne’s leadership, WTN has produced events that raise public awareness on renewable energy; from the Net Metering initiative in NY, to the conference on Clean Energy, to local Earth Day events, and the Malibu Electric Vehicle Chargers.
World Team’s development began after the production with “Starlette Express” of her first multi-media international project sponsored by Coca-Cola in Japan that was part of the Asian Pacific World Exposition, “Yokatopia”. Suzanne was the producer of the USA portion of the international co-production, but also a performer in “The Coca-Cola Rock-n-Rollers”. The roller dance- skate show was part of a multi-million dollar production that included live performances, national television shows, and various ancillary components.
COP15 in 2009 was the continuation of what was started in 1992 with Climate Change, when she documented then Presidential Candidate Jerry Brown’s journey to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the United Nations’ Earth Summit/Global Forum where she was also invited to speak about “The Power of Media” along as part of an entourage of environmental leaders. She joined music industry celebrities and performed the original World Team reggae-rap song at the “Lunar Eclipse” closing concert.
Suzanne first joined the “Earth Train USA,” as “VIP Spokesperson,” and later in 1993 she consulted on the “Earth Train for Peace;” producing part of the multifaceted project; which brought 250 children from around the world to war torn Zagreb, Croatia on a train ride to United Nations’ International Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, Austria. She documented the project and worked with Amnesty International’s survivors to “train” youth on teamwork, leadership, and create the document presented on “Youth Rights”. As a journalist, for “Earth News,” she covered His Holiness the Dalai Llama and other invited Nobel Peace Prize Laureates at the conference. She was an executive producer for the impromptu Youth Benefit Concert at the Liechtenstein Castle.
A consultant on the production of the global project, “Ashes and Snow,” Suzanne was hired to connect the artist, Gregory Colbert with her VIP contacts in Monaco, in pursuit of a venue for the show, and financing.
Suzanne helped to produce and coordinate the VIP portion of program for the 1st Annual Yoga Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center with Bikram. This event brought together Arianna Huffington, Depok Chopra, Mariel Hemmingway, Dan Millman and various global icons, who supported World Team.
In true entrepreneurial spirit in 1994 Suzanne started “Sports to the Maxx,” where as a sponsored pro, she coached others to go beyond what they believed to be possible in extreme sports, primarily with in-line and roller skating, skiing, and horseback riding– see sportstothemaxx.com. As named in “Best of LA” and featured on “Eye on LA,” she has mobilized masses of people in clinics and classes around the world. She has worked with children, pro athletes, people with disabilities, celebrities and their children. Contracted with the City of Malibu, a skate program, a sports camp and park were developed and built for the community with Suzanne’s and her team’s guidance. This was a decade of programs with municipalities and corporations doing programs and various clinics.
Suzanne’s work as a producer in New York began as a teenager with special events and promotion at Roxy, Studio 54 (NYC & St. Thomas), China Club, and Limelight– all while in school and before graduating from Sarah Lawrence College.
Suzanne’s in-front-of-the-camera work includes: a soap opera, episodic television, stage, commercials and film. Personally significant projects were: The Tag Heurers campaign: “Success is a Mind Game,” with director, Tony Kaye, The California State Lottery, Diet 7-Up (commercials), Spectacular World of Guinness Records, Night Court, Family Medical Center, Superior Court, Ryan’s Hope (TV) and a student film, Bubble Zone. Suzanne is a member of SAG, AFTRA, and AEA.
The technical paper; “Vehicle Electrification: Status and Issues,” recently published in the IEEE and other published articles on renewable energy demonstrates the extremity of scope, especially with the “What’s Sacred & Extreme on the 8 Islands of Hawaii” and “Colorado Snow Diamonds” articles that became a series published in the Malibu Chronicle.
Guest speaker events included: The International Leadership Convention, The International Health & Fitness Convention, The Alternative Transportation Exposition, The Optimist Club (key note) and The Whole Life Expositions.
She attended panels, and conferences, that kept her abreast of the latest trends, during the R&D for World Team’s climate “Challenge”, and other auto shows: The Electric Vehicle Conventions, “EVS,” “The Top Marques SuperCar Show,” and “Grand Prix,” to develop the EV Parade in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
As an independent producer, she worked to build co-production and international distribution partners for World Team, through “MIPCOM”, “MIPTV,” “NATPE”, “MedPi,”and “The Monte Carlo Television Festival” and the key international distribution events to forge the co-production broadcast strategy. There were many international events, festivals and conferences to explore platforms, licensing fees, and international treaties to gain experience with how World Team could change the game in the future.
The World Team Project developed through rare opportunities at Universities to work with students and faculty. From Columbia University’s Computational Learning Systems (CCLS) back in her native New York roots, to Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Public Policy, and Seaver College (in Malibu, where she has been based for over two decades), and the International University of Monaco’s Business School (with patronage of Prince Albert of Monaco). Through this experience, she gained knowledge in different fields and bridged the academic and professional worlds in: business, public policy, international affairs, technology, and earth sciences.
The vision for our future is contagious– evidenced by the people who have donated their resources of T.ime, E.nergy, A.ction and M.oney to further the World Team project. Life to the Maxx is perhaps her creed, but it is also the working title of the book requested by a publisher about “anonymous” leadership.
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World Team Now is a 501c3 non-profit organization registered in both New York and California.
