(You know it’s official because it refers to me in the third person. Fancy.)

Suzy Welch a three-time New York Times best-selling author, noted CEO advisor, and Professor of Management Practice at NYU’s Stern School of Business, where she is also the Director of the NYU | Stern Initiative on Purpose and Flourishing. She serves as a Senior Advisor to the Brunswick Group and is corporate director, as well as a regular contributor on CNBC and The Today Show. Her op-eds about GenZ and work today appear regularly in the Wall Street Journal.

Professor Welch 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, Professor Welch combined her two career paths at the Harvard Business Review, where she eventually was named Editor. After HBR, she collaborated with her late husband, Jack Welch, to write two international bestsellers, "Winning," in 2005, and "The Real-Life MBA," in 2015. On her own, Professor Welch 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. Her next book will be published by HarperBusiness in May 2025. 

After her husband’s passing, Professor Welch joined the faculty of Stern, where she created and teaches the popular class, “Becoming You: Crafting the Authentic Life You Want and Need.” She also teaches “Developing Managerial Skills,” and along with teaching undergraduates and MBAs, also offers classes in the school’s Executive MBA programs. 

Professor Welch serves on the board of the publicly traded homeservices giant, ANGI, and the Humane Society of the United States. She has a large family and lots of dogs and lives in New York.