Meet
Suzy Welch

There's a question that has shaped everything — the teaching, the research, the books, the assessments: How do I live the life I was meant to live?

Suzy Welch has spent her career creating frameworks to help answer that question – frameworks that are both scientifically validated and deeply human, and used by millions of people around the world. 

An award-winning professor of management at NYU Stern School of Business since 2022, Professor Welch received her PhD in values expression from the University of Bristol, where she developed the Welch-Bristol Values Inventory, a landmark cataloguing of human motivations. Her widely praised book Becoming You: The Proven Method for Crafting Your Authentic Life and Career was published in 2024 and named an Amazon Best Book of the Year, and her book 10-10-10: A Life-Transforming Idea, was published in 2009, and was a long-running New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-seller. A new and completely revised version 10-10-10 will be published in March 2027. Suzy is also the host of two popular podcasts, Becoming You and Please Advise. 

Suzy is the Director of the NYU | Stern Initiative on Purpose and Flourishing, a think tank composed of the leading academics in the purpose field and business leaders committed to building companies where employees can thrive and find meaning. In this work, she draws on her own experience as a board director and as the founder and CEO of Becoming You Labs, a team of researchers, technologists, curriculum experts, and product designers now bringing Becoming You’s methodology to individuals, institutions, and organizations in more than 40 countries. The Values Bridge, developed at the Labs in 2024 and featured in the Wall Street Journal and Fortune magazine, has now been taken almost 200,000 times and has been heralded as one of the most powerful values measurement tools developed in the past 25 years.

A graduate of Harvard University, Suzy began her career as a reporter for The Miami Herald in 1981. A serendipitous assignment to the business beat changed her direction. She left journalism to attend Harvard Business School, where she graduated as a Baker Scholar in 1988, and spent the next seven years at Bain & Company. In 1995, she brought both careers together at the Harvard Business Review, eventually becoming the publication's editor. 

After leaving HBR, Suzy went on to have two shows on CNBC, Get to Work, with Suzy Welch, and Suzy Welch, Fix My Career, along with a careers column for O: The Oprah Magazine. In 2010, she became, and remains, a regular contributor to The Today Show, focused on careers and the economy. In 2005, she co-authored Winning with her late husband Jack Welch, which was an international bestseller, as was their second book together, The Real-Life MBA. She is a regular op-ed writer for The Wall Street Journal, with most of her pieces reporting on the results of her extensive research into generational values.

Professor Welch lives in New York with her family and dogs.