Sprinkle Signature Talks
Key Topic: “Earning the Connection”-Susan’s experiences and storytelling are to challenge leaders to turn communication into momentum.
After retiring, Susan devoted several years to caring for her husband during his battle with cancer. Following her husband’s passing in April 2026, she transformed her passion for speaking into a professional motivational speaking business, drawing on her life experiences to inspire and encourage others.
Susan has been a respected leader in breast care services since 1976 and began her faculty and public speaking career with AHEC in 1986. Throughout her career, she has developed and delivered hundreds of educational programs and consulted nationally and internationally. Susan has mentored countless professionals in women’s imaging and breast health. Today, she continues to honor that legacy through her mission of “Saving Lives Every Day” using her story and experience to motivate and uplift others.
Susan Sprinkle's love for her mother was profound and unending. Her respect for her so powerful that it led her to a career directly inspired by her mother.
And when her mother died at a young age, that love empowered Susan to embrace a career that detected the same sort of cancer that took her mother's life. For more than 40 years, Susan's passion for what she did is shown every day in the people with whom she worked, the ones she trained, and the patients she helped. That's the way her mother raised and inspired her. Susan, was a mammography program manager/consultant for the Advanced Health Education Center, Ltd., in Houston, Texas.
Though her mother was a nurse, 56, her mother introduced her to radiology. At the time, while still in high school, Susan was volunteering as a candy striper at an area hospital. She liked it and helped doctors make a diagnosis when people were ill or injured. "It was very important to her mother that she went to college and had a profession that would enable her to take care of herself for life.
Sadly, though, when she was in 11th grade, Susan's life changed after her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Her mom died in 1975, one year after she graduated from her radiology program. She knew she had made the right choice. Her death was very difficult for her and still is. Her mom was terribly misdiagnosed and then her cancer spread and took her life. She was only 53 years old."