September 12-14, 2025 NYU Campus

An Answer To
"What Should I Do
With My Life?"

We all want lives of meaning and authenticity, lives that make us feel alive. But how, exactly, do we find them? Enter Becoming You, the ground-breaking career planning methodology developed by award-winning NYU Stern School of Business Professor Dr. Suzy Welch. Normally only available to NYU Stern students, Professor Welch now teaches an intensive version of her acclaimed class that is open to all.

Three-Day Becoming You NYC Intensive

What is the Becoming You methodology?

September 12-14, 2025

The Becoming You Methodology is founded on the construct that your purpose lies at the intersection of what you want to do, what you can do, and what you should do. In other words, your values, your aptitudes, and the areas of economic growth that call you emotionally and intellectually.

The intersection of which is, in Becoming You’s terminology, your “Area of Transcendence,” which Professor Suzy Welch describes as “the right-fitting, soul-filling, and enlivening destination of the beautiful, messy, complex, and precious journey we call life.”

Becoming You, the ground-breaking career planning methodology developed by award-winning NYU Stern School of Business Professor Dr. Suzy Welch, is now open to all. The program is run under the auspices of the NYU | Stern Initiative on Purpose and Flourishing, held on campus, and grants participants a Certificate of Completion.

If you feel like you’ve lost your compass or your direction, congratulations: you’ve just found it. Let Suzy Welch be your guide. She has been mine on many occasions. She will take you on a journey into yourself and help you find your path forward. So if you want to find your life’s purpose, let Suzy hold your hand and show you the way.

Hoda Kotb

Former host, The Today Show

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Day One: Values Excavation

What values shape the decisions I make?

September 12 from 9 am - 5 pm with a lunch break

The first day of the Intensive is spent identifying each participant’s unique core values – the wants, motivations, and desires that drive your decisions and actions – through the use of six proprietary exercises.

For many, this part of Becoming You is the first time they can put names to their values, and see them in rank order, as well as get a deep understanding of which of their values are in conflict, and which are not being fully expressed. The values portion of the course culminates with The Values Bridge, an assessment tool that Professor Welch developed specifically for those undertaking the Becoming You process.

Whether you enter the Becoming You Intensive thinking you know your core values or not, the values excavation will undoubtedly expand and deepen your understanding of your deeply held beliefs, goals, and motivations. And, as importantly, the values excavation will start to clarify the purpose-filled future you hope to build.
Day Two: Aptitudes Identification

What am I naturally wired to be good at?

September 13 from 9 am - 5 pm with a lunch break

What are you good at? Like, better-than-most-people good at? We can spend our whole lives not knowing the true answer to those questions. Take the mystery out of your cognitive and emotional strengths so that you can begin to identify which kinds of jobs and industries are the best match.

Becoming You begins to pinpoint its participants’ underlying aptitudes with a series of scientifically validated tests, including the Enneagram personality test, the YouScience aptitudes-finder, the PIE360 feedback tool, and the leadership-trait assessment, Career Traits Compass. (The costs of this testing are covered in tuition.) Other testing is administered during our time together.

Day Two features a guest lecture from Rasanath Das, the world’s leading expert on the Enneagram, one of our assessment tools, whose kindness, deep wisdom, and searing insight are always a highlight of the Becoming You program.
Day Three: Industry and Megatrend Survey and Area of Transcendence Workshop

What roles and industries call to me emotionally and intellectually?

September 14 from 9 am - 5 pm with a lunch break

The final day is designed to expose the often overlooked industries where opportunity abounds, and elucidate the most notable megatrends on the horizon. Even if you enter Becoming You thinking you know what kind of work you want to pursue, this portion of the Intensive is intended to “open the aperture” on what constitutes an economically viable interest.

In addition to in-class activities and exercises, participants are introduced to a proprietary new Becoming You tool, the Holland Bridge, which pinpoints the best industries and roles for you based on data gathering in the Intensive process.

In the second portion of the day, participants work alone and in small groups to create, pressure test, and refine their Area of Transcendence (AOT) roadmaps. Professor Welch plays a very active role in this portion of the class, helping students hone and operationalize their plans.

Does Becoming You promise a straight shot to each participant’s Area of Transcendence? Absolutely not, because life does not work that way. But the methodology is designed to set you firmly on the road to your AOT with a good map, clarifying insight, and new confidence, because without an AOT destination in mind, any old road will do. And usually does.

The Three-Day Intensive also includes two optional social events – a welcome party the night before the program and a celebratory party afterward at a nearby restaurant.

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Faq

Who is this program for? People just starting out in their careers, or mid-career professionals who are hoping to pivot?

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How about yes and yes, and everyone in between? The power of the Becoming You methodology is that it is a lifelong tool that meets you exactly where you are in your career journey.

Professor Welch has taught Becoming You to individuals from 18 to 80; the course is designed to be inclusive – and life-transforming – whether you are thisclose to your purpose, and searching for it on what feels like a distant horizon.
What can I expect to get out of the three-day Becoming You program?

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You will emerge from the program with a comprehensive list of your core values, insight into your unique aptitudes, and a new understanding of the economic opportunities ahead. Perhaps most importantly, the goal of the program is for each participant to create a personalized, customized “Area of Transcendence” roadmap to their future.

In short, you should expect to come out of the Intensive with a clearer, richer, hope-provoking answer to the question, “What should I do with my life.”
How does the Intensive compare to Professor Welch’s course at NYU?

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In sheer number of hours of instruction – 21 total – it is about the same. However, the work is very accelerated, and some homework assignments have been eliminated from the process. Finally, at NYU, Becoming You students undergo a 5-week 360- Feedback process which is (naturally) shorter and less complex in the Intensive version.

It is important to note that Professor Welch’s NYU course is only available to students enrolled at the university.
How much access will we have to Professor Welch?

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Professor Welch will teach the entire program and very much enjoys interacting with participants.
What is included in the cost of the program?

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The $2,500 cost includes instruction, as well as all learning materials and tests. It does not include meals and housing.
Where is the program taking place?

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On the NYU campus.
Do you recommend taking the class with a friend or family member?

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By all means, if this makes sense for you! That said, people tend to connect quickly and naturally during the Becoming You process, so you likely feel a sense of immediate community.
What should I do if I have other questions?

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Bring ‘em! Please contact us at hello@suzywelch.com.