 A two-time Emmy Award-winning television host, New York Times
bestselling author, magazine and online columnist, writer/producer, and
motivational speaker, Suze is undeniably America's most recognized
expert on personal finance.
Suze has written six consecutive New York Times bestsellers: Women & Money; The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke; The Laws of Money, The Lessons of Life; The Road to Wealth; The Courage to Be Rich; and The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, as well as the national bestsellers, Suze Orman’s Financial Guidebook and You’ve Earned It, Don’t Lose It. A newspaper column entitled Women & Money started to be syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate in January 2007. In addition, she has created Suze Orman’s FICO Kit, Suze Orman’s Will & Trust Kit, Suze Orman’s Insurance Kit, The Ask Suze Library System and Suze Orman’s Ultimate Protection Portfolio. Suze has written, co-produced, and hosted six PBS specials based on her New York Times
bestselling books, she is the single most successful fundraiser in the
history of public television, and she recently won her second Daytime
Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Service Show Host. Suze’s
latest PBS Special “Women & Money” began airing nationwide on PBS
March 2007.
Suze is a contributing editor to O, The Oprah Magazine in the United States and South Africa and to O at Home. She has a bi-weekly column, Money Matters, on Yahoo! Finance, and a bi monthly column for the Costco Connection and for Lowes Moneyworks. Suze hosts the award-winning The Suze Orman Show, which airs every Saturday night on CNBC, and also hosts the Financial Freedom Hour on QVC television.
Suze has been honored with a record number of Gracie Allen Awards in
television by the American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT). These
awards recognize the nation’s best radio, television, and cable
programming for, by, and about women. In 2003 Suze garnered her first
Gracie for “The Suze Orman Show” in the National/Network/Syndication
Talk Show category, won her second and third Gracies in the Individual
Achievement: Program Host category in 2005 and 2006, and won her fourth
Gracie for "The Suze Orman Show" in the Outstanding Talk Show category
in 2007.
A 2003 inductee into the Books for a Better Life (BBL) Award Hall of
Fame in recognition of her ongoing contributions to self-improvement,
Suze had previously received the 1999 BBL Motivational Book Award for The Courage to Be Rich.
As a tribute to her continuing involvement, in 2002 the organization
established The Suze Orman First Book Award to honor first-time authors
of self-improvement books. In November 2006 Suze was the inaugural
recipient of the MS Spirit Award, recognizing her support of the
Society over the past five years toward finding a cure for multiple
sclerosis. She received a 2003 Crossing Borders Award, which are given
by the Feminist Press to recognize distinguished women who not only
have excelled in remarkable careers, but have also shown great courage,
vision, and conviction by blazing new trails for women in their fields.
In 2002 Suze was selected as one of five distinguished recipients of
the prestigious TJFR Group News Luminaries Award, which honors lifetime
achievement in business journalism.
The top female motivational speaker in the U.S., Suze has lectured
widely throughout the United States, South Africa and Asia to audiences
of up to 100,000 people, and regularly appears alongside individuals
such as Colin Powell, Rudy Giuliani, Steve Forbes and Donald Trump. She
has been featured in almost every major publication in the United
States, and has appeared numerous times on The View, Larry King Live, and The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Suze, a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional, directed the Suze
Orman Financial Group from 1987-1997, served as Vice President of
Investments for Prudential Bache Securities from 1983-87, and from
1980-83 was an Account Executive at Merrill Lynch. Prior to that, she
worked as a waitress at the Buttercup Bakery in Berkeley, California
from 1973-80.
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