Suzy Welch attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College, and Harvard Business School, from which she graduated as a Baker Scholar, in the top five percent of her class.
Suzy Welch (née Spring) is an author, commentator, and business journalist. The widely read weekly column The Welch Way she writes with her husband, Jack Welch, appears in Business Week magazine and is published by The New York Times syndicate in more than 45 major newspapers around the world, reaching more than 8 million readers. The Welches are also the co-authors of Winning, a #1 Wall Street Journal and international bestseller, and its companion volume, Winning: The Answers.
On her own, Suzy is a columnist for O – The Oprah Magazine, where she writes frequently about balancing work and life, as well as the delicate art of managing career challenges. She is also an Executive-in-Residence at Babson College’s Center for Women’s Leadership, where she works with undergraduates and MBAs.
Born in Portland, Oregon, in 1959, Suzy received her BA from Harvard College in 1981 and then joined The Miami Herald as a reporter. She left daily journalism to attend Harvard Business School, where she graduated as a Baker Scholar in 1988. After Harvard Business School, Suzy worked as a management consultant, specializing in strategy and manufacturing for a number of years at Bain & Company in Boston. She joined the Harvard Business Review as a senior editor in 1995 and was named editor-in-chief in 2001. During her tenure at HBR, Suzy was the author of numerous articles on leadership, change, creativity and organizational behavior, as well as the contributor to several books on management.
In early 2002, she was forced to resign from the Harvard Business Review after admitting to an affair with Jack Welch, the former chief executive officer of General Electric, while preparing an interview with him for the magazine. At that time, her last name was that of her first husband: Suzy Wetlaufer (the marriage had ended in divorce). Jack Welch divorced and then the couple married, and she had the interview pulled before it appeared in the Business Review.
Although she has written a novel, she is probably best known as the writer and editor of numerous books and articles dealing with leadership, organizational change, and human resource management.
She is currently writing a book called 10-10-10 about a life-management tool for personal decision-making. 10-10-10 which is planned to be published in 2009.
Suzy is the mother of 4 children, ages 13 to 19 and lives in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. She is actively involved with several non-profit boards, including Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program.