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About Suzy Welch

With her unique blend of authenticity, expertise, humor, and tough love, Suzy Welch is a mentor and motivator to many around the world, from students to CEOs.

An award-winning NYU Stern School of Business professor, tech entrepreneur, and three-time New York Times best-selling author, Suzy Welch is known for imparting warmth and wisdom about business and culture, captivating an enthusiastic and expanding audience.

Over the course of her multifaceted 40-year career, Suzy has been a crime reporter in Miami, a consultant at Bain & Co., and a columnist for O: The Oprah Magazine. A graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Business School, she has been (and remains) a frequent guest of the Today Show and an op-ed contributor to the Wall Street Journal. But Suzy Welch’s greatest passion is in the classroom at NYU Stern School of Business, where she teaches two acclaimed classes, “Becoming You: Crafting the Authentic Life You Want and Need,” and “Developing Managerial Skills.” She is also the director of the NYU | Stern Initiative on Purpose and Flourishing, a community of management scholars and practitioners committed to advancing the discovery of authentic meaning.

Suzy Welch was born in Portland, Oregon in 1959. She began her career as a crime reporter for The Miami Herald in 1981, after graduating magna cum laude from Harvard University. After a serendipitous reassignment to the business beat some years later, she left daily journalism to attend Harvard Business School, where she graduated as a Baker Scholar. The next seven years were spent at Bain & Company, as a consultant working with manufacturing clients in the Midwest.

In 1995, Suzy combined her two career paths at the Harvard Business Review. In her years at HBR, eventually as the publication’s Editor, she conceptualized and edited articles on strategy, operations, and organizational behavior, and wrote others on leadership, change, and crisis management. With her late husband, Jack Welch, Suzy is the author of two international bestsellers, Winning, in 2005, and The Real-Life MBA, in 2015. On her own, she is the author of the 2008-2009 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller 10-10-10: A Life-Transforming Idea, a decision-making concept she originally wrote about as a columnist for O: The Oprah Magazine.

After her husband’s passing in 2020, Suzy joined the faculty of NYU Stern School of Business as a clinical professor of management practice. One of her classes, “Becoming You: Crafting the Authentic Life You Want and Need” is an interactive self-discovery methodology that helps students discover and live into their authentic purpose. She also teaches “Developing Managerial Skills,” a survey of the many skills and competencies leaders must hone to be beloved by their teams, customers, and communities. Also at Stern, Suzy’s research into values formation and discovery eventually led to the creation of two psychometric tools designed to help individuals discover the gap between their lived experience and the full expression of their values.

Suzy serves on the board of the publicly traded home services giant, ANGI, and the Humane Society of the United States. She is an active supporter of the Good Food Institute, an alternative proteins think tank, and The Central Park Conservancy. She has a large family, including the most perfect granddaughter in the history of humanity, and lots of dogs. She lives in New York.

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Recent Media

  • The Today Show

    Author Suzy Welch shares why she thanks her haters in open letter

    Suzy Welch joins Hoda and Jenna to talk about her recent open letter, “A Love Letter to All the People I’ve Hated” and compares negative feelings to data, saying “They’re not things to run away from but to stare into and open up. That’s hard.”

  • WomenExecs on Boards

    WomenExecs on Boards Conference Q&A

    I am never, ever unprepared. The other day I was, and a little miracle occurred.

  • The Today Show

    Suzy Welch offers uncommon advice for recent college grads

    Suzy Welch, author of three New York Times bestselling books and a professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, gives a crash course in building the life you want as soon as possible.

  • Wall Street Journal

    Lazy Girl Jobs’ Won’t Make Gen Z Less Anxious by Suzy Welch

    Their overweening parents—baby boomers like me—failed to prepare them for adulthood’s challenges.

  • The Female Quotient

    The Female Quotient Panel at AdWeek

    Turn networking into friend-making as quickly as possible.

  • The Today Show

    Ask yourself these 3 questions to create the life you want

    From overcoming the “epidemic of purposelessness” to finding your life’s mission, Suzy Welch, author of three New York Times bestselling books and a professor at NYU’s Stern School

  • Wall Street Journal

    Crotonville and the Death of Fun at Work by Suzy Welch

    Young employees can’t imagine caring about a company and vice versa.

  • NYU

    NYU Stern School of Business MBA and PhD Convocation, Class of 2024

    Suzy Welch, NYU Stern Professor of Management Practice and Director, Initiative on Purpose and Flourishing, addresses Stern’s MBA and PhD Class of 2024 on Friday, May 17, 2024.

Advocacy

Animal Rights

Protecting those who have no voice.

I am proud to be a longtime board member of The Humane Society of The United States, whose courageous team works tirelessly to end animal cruelty in all its forms around the world. To learn more about efforts to extend our circles of compassion to animals of every species, please also visit two excellent organizations, Mercy for Animals and the Good Food Institute.

Central Park

The 💚 of NYC.

Decades ago, Central Park was on the brink of collapse from disregard and disrepair. Then, miraculously, a group of generous, forward-thinking citizens stepped forward and saved it, bringing it to its present glory, as a respite for all New Yorkers. I am proud to be part of the Central Park Conservancy, which continues that vital work today.