NYU Professor of Management Practice, Business Journalist & Bestselling Author
Suzy Welch: Biography at a Glance
- Suzy Welch is a renowned business journalist and bestselling author with expertise in leadership, change, crisis management, corporate governance, social media, and the workplace honed over her 40-year career.
- She is also a Professor of Management Practice at NYU’s Stern School of Business, a special advisor to the Brunswick Group, and a regular contributor on The Today Show.
- Based on her acclaimed NYU course, Suzy's latest book, Becoming You unveils a transformative framework for discovering your true self and identifying the fulfilling career meant just for you.
- Suzy started as a crime reporter and then worked the business beat before attending Harvard Business School. She spent years at Bain & Company as a consultant before combining her journalism and business backgrounds at Harvard Business Review, where she was eventually named Editor-in-Chief.
- With her late husband, Jack Welch, Suzy is the author of two international bestsellers, Winning and The Real-Life MBA.
- Suzy also wrote the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller 10-10-10: A Life-Transforming Idea, centered around a decision-making concept she originally wrote about as a columnist for O: The Oprah Magazine.
- With her unique blend of authenticity, expertise, humor, and tough love, Suzy inspires organizations and individuals to bridge the gap between their current state and their highest potential.
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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 and The Real-Life MBA. 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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Future of Leadership: The Secret Behind the World’s Most Collaborative Cultures
With five generations currently in the workforce, leaders are faced with the difficult challenge of building connectivity across their organizations. In this vibrant and memorable experience, Suzy Welch shares what it takes for leaders to create driven, collaborative, and cohesive teams prepared to succeed long-term. Your audience will be delighted to learn that the secret to a more connected culture already exists within their own organizations.
As a Senior Advisor with the Brunswick Group and a professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, Suzy has unprecedented access to both Fortune 500 CEOs and the future leaders of the workforce. Told through relatable stories from the front lines of both camps, Suzy shows how the world’s top companies are bridging the gap between these often-disconnected generations.
Her goal is simple: To send your audience back into the world with actionable steps, confidence, and the motivation to become the leaders, collaborators, and communicators that will take your company to new heights.
The Three R’s: A Framework to Thrive in the Future of Work
By 2025, the World Economic Forum predicts that automation will displace over 85 million jobs. More than 50% of workers will require upskilling to prepare for changing roles. The rise of remote work will create fierce competition, and those without the appropriate skills will not have a home in the new economy.
But it’s not all doom and gloom, says #1 New York Times bestselling author Suzy Welch. In this eye-opening yet encouraging conversation, Suzy reveals a playbook to take charge of your career and thrive in this fast-paced future of work.
Filled with authentic and humorous stories from her own journey, this transformational experience delivers innovative tactics that will leave you feeling ready to take action.
You will learn:
- How to build a resilient mindset that prepares you to grow and adapt no matter what life throws your way.
- How to identify the skills you need to level up and incorporate learning into your day.
- The fastest way to build a rich network of relationships that will attract new opportunities, giving you an edge in both work and life.
Using The Three R’s – Resilience, Reskilling, and Relationships – Suzy provides a powerful framework that you can apply to accelerate your career and improve your life.
Wait, What Should I Be When I Grow Up (Again)?
No one is going to disagree when you say these are crazy times, right? And the truth is, we are all trying to navigate a world which seems unprecedented in its lack of precedent. One consulting firm dubbed this “The Era of Permacrisis,” and along with the “ouch” that induces, it doesn’t feel wrong. Place in the middle of this, then, the challenge of creating a meaningful career – for those in your organization, and yourself. Drawing on the methodology developed for her immensely popular business school class, “Becoming You: Forging the Authentic Life You Want and Need,” Suzy Welch offers a new and positive way of thinking about how, when, and where we work.
Becoming You: Crafting the Authentic Life You Want and Need
This empowering talk introduces the Becoming You methodology, a transformative approach to uncovering your true self and aligning your career with your authentic purpose. Developed over 15 years of research and teaching at NYU, this framework helps you answer, “What should I do with my life?” by identifying your “Area of Transcendence”—the intersection of your values, unique aptitudes, and economically viable interests.
Through inspiring stories and practical tools, this session will guide you to bridge the gap between the life you’re living and the life you’re meant to live, empowering you to wake up each day with purpose and excitement.
