Susan B. Foster, Ph.D., possesses academic degrees from Florida State, Eastern Illinois, and a Ph.D. with an emphasis in sport management and higher education from Ohio State University. In 2007, she started her own consulting firm and has reviewed other academic programs and curricula. After having taught sport management and recreation education for 30+ years at four institutions, she retired to continue her writing and publishing   

She supervised more than 1500 students in their field experiences at both the undergraduate and graduate levels at four different institutions. Her teaching specialties were experiential learning, legal issues, risk management, event/facility management and strategic planning. She was passionate about quality academic and preparing students for entry into the sport business industry through professional development senior seminars, senior and graduate student internships/projects. Alumni from the four programs in which she taught have climbed their ladders in the sport business industry. Several are GM’s/owners of minor league baseball teams, successful coaches at NCAA member schools, lawyers, agents, campus recreation professionals, professors, business owners, teachers, private sport organizations, and more. Several have contributed Time-Out Interviews in all three editions of Experiential Learning in Sport Management: Internships and Beyond.

Foster was elected three times to Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, having been nominated by students in her programs. In 2024, she was elected to the Commission on Sport Management Accreditation (COSMA) Hall of Fame for her work as a sport management curriculum specialist. In 2017, she received Ohio State University’s College of Education and Human Ecology Award of Distinction given to alumni for outstanding professional, personal, or community contributions in their field. In 2006, she received the Sport and Recreation Law Association (SRLA) Honor Award for support of undergraduate student legal research after three of her students won that award. She was also honored by Saint Leo University with a Technology in Teaching Award and their Lifetime Publication Award.

She has delivered more than 80 presentations and workshops and from 2008–2011, she was the lead-off speaker presenting on the theme "So You Want to Work in Baseball" for the more than 500 attendees at the Business of Baseball Seminar held annually at the Baseball Winter Meetings, sponsored by Minor League Baseball. Her publications have appeared in 11 of the leading sport-related publications, and she has served on the editorial boards of four professional journals.