15 Facts About Suzy Welch

Suzy Welch was born on 1959 and is an American author, television commentator, business advisor, and public speaker.

Suzy Welch is the co-author of the business books Winning, published in 2005, and The Real Life MBA, published in 2015.

In 1959, Welch was born as Suzanne Spring in Portland, Oregon.

Suzy Welch was primarily raised in New York and New England.

Suzy Welch's father is an architect and architectural school administrator.

Suzy Welch attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard and Radcliffe College, and Harvard Business School, from which she graduated as a Baker Scholar, in the top five percent of her class.

Suzy Welch started her career as a reporter with the Miami Herald and then with the Associated Press.

Suzy Welch was later named editor-in-chief of the Harvard Business Review.

Suzy Welch has written a novel, and authored and edited numerous books and articles dealing with leadership, organizational change, and human resource management.

In early 2002, Suzy Welch was forced to resign from the Harvard Business Review after admitting to an affair with the then-married Jack Suzy Welch, the former chief executive officer of General Electric, while preparing an interview with him for the magazine.

Suzy Welch had the interview pulled before it appeared in the Business Review.

Together with her husband, Jack Welch, Suzy has co-authored several books including, Winning, its companion volume, Winning: The Answers, and The Real Life MBA: Your No-BS Guide to Winning the Game, Building a Team and Growing Your Career.

Jack and Suzy wrote "The Welch Way", a weekly column on business and career challenges that appeared in BusinessWeek magazine from 2005 to 2009 and was published in 45 newspapers across the world by The New York Times Syndicate.

Suzy Welch sold her interest in the school after her husband passed away, and while she often praises the highly-ranked school, she is no longer formally associated with it.

Suzy Welch married Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric, in 2004, after meeting him in October 2000.