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Suze Orman

Personal Finance Icon, Two-Time Emmy Award Winner, and Ten-Time New York Times Bestselling Author

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  • Keynote · Fireside chat · Moderation
  • English
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Signature keynotes

What your audience walks away with

  • Outcome

    The Ultimate Retirement Guide for 50+ (current flagship)

    Built on the freshly revised 2025 edition of her bestselling retirement guide, this talk gives audiences the current rules of retirement: what has changed with Social Security and Medicare, how to make savings actually last a lifetime, and the specific moves people over 50 need to make now rather than later. Practical, current, and built for an audience planning its own next decade.

  • 9 Steps to Financial Freedom

    Her signature, most-requested talk, built on the book that made her a household name. Suze reframes money as an emotional and spiritual subject as much as a mathematical one, walking audiences through the fear, shame, and outdated beliefs that keep people stuck, and the practical steps that replace them with real financial confidence.

  • Women & Money

    The specific financial realities women face: the pay gap, a longer average lifespan, and a cultural reluctance to talk about money at all. Suze lays out concrete, practical steps for closing the gap, drawn from decades of coaching, writing, and podcasting directly to women about their finances.

  • Building a Culture of Financial Wellness

    Drawn directly from her work co-founding SecureSave, this talk makes the case that emergency savings, not just retirement contributions, is the missing piece of most workplace financial-wellness programs. A practical, employer-facing talk for HR and total-rewards audiences on what actually changes financial behavior at scale.

  • The Road to Wealth

    A comprehensive framework for money management: investing, debt, insurance, and the discipline that builds long-term wealth. Built for audiences that want a complete plan, not just a single idea, to take back to their own finances.

  • People First, Then Money, Then Things

    Her best-known personal philosophy, expanded into a talk on values-first decision making, in money and in life. A high-energy closing keynote built around the idea that the order you put people, money, and things in determines everything else.

Suze also speaks as one of our motivational speakers, a useful second angle if that theme is closer to your event.

The story

Who Suze actually is

Suze Orman was born in Chicago on June 5, 1951, and earned a degree in social work from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After college she moved to Berkeley, California, and worked as a waitress, earning about $400 a month. Hoping to open her own restaurant, she borrowed roughly $50,000 from friends and diners, and a broker lost the entire sum in a matter of months. Instead of walking away from finance, she walked into it: she trained at Merrill Lynch, became a vice president of investments at Prudential-Bache Securities, and in 1987 founded her own firm, the Suze Orman Financial Group. Her national platform arrived with The Suze Orman Show, which ran on CNBC from 2002 to 2015 and became one of the most-watched personal-finance programs on television, anchored by her instantly recognizable "Can I Afford It?" segment, where callers pitched a purchase and Suze rendered a live verdict of "Approved" or "Denied." Along the way she wrote ten consecutive New York Times bestsellers, including The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, Women & Money, The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke, and The Ultimate Retirement Guide for 50+. She won two Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Service Show Host and eight Gracie Awards, and PBS credits her pledge-drive specials with raising more money than any other individual fundraiser in the network's history. Suze has never stopped building. In 2020, at 69, she co-founded SecureSave, a workplace platform that helps employees build emergency savings through payroll deduction and an employer match; the company was acquired by HSA Bank in December 2025, extending its reach into a broader set of employer savings tools. She continues to host the twice-weekly podcast Suze Orman's Women & Money, and the newly revised 2025 edition of The Ultimate Retirement Guide for 50+ reflects the latest changes to Social Security and Medicare. She has also served as the official personal finance educator for the U.S. Army and Army Reserve and as a Special Advocate for the National Domestic Violence Hotline, producing a video series on financial abuse. She lives with her wife, Kathy "KT" Travis.

The receipts

Books & publications

  • The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom

    1997

    (1997). The breakout classic that treats money as an emotional and spiritual subject, not just a mathematical one.

  • The Courage to Be Rich

    1999

    (1999). Building a life of material and spiritual abundance.

  • The Road to Wealth

    2001

    (2001). A comprehensive guide to managing, investing, and growing your money.

  • The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke

    2005

    (2005). Practical financial guidance built for a younger audience just starting out.

  • Women & Money

    2007

    (2007, revised and updated 2018). The financial realities women face and a path to closing the gap.

  • The Money Class

    2011

    (2011, updated 2012). A plan for creating a new, achievable version of financial security.

  • The Ultimate Retirement Guide for 50+

    2020

    (2020, revised and updated for 2025). Winning strategies to make retirement savings last, updated for the newest Social Security and Medicare rules.

Gravity

Career highlights & recognition

  • Credential2002

    Host, "The Suze Orman Show"

    on CNBC (2002 to 2015), one of the longest-running personal-finance programs in cable television history

  • Award

    Two-time Daytime Emmy Award winner

    for Outstanding Service Show Host

  • Award

    Eight-time Gracie Award winner

    more than any other individual at the time of her wins

  • Recognition2025

    Ten-time New York Times bestselling author

    including The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, Women & Money, and The Ultimate Retirement Guide for 50+ (revised for 2025)

  • Credential2025

    Co-founder, SecureSave

    a workplace emergency-savings platform acquired by HSA Bank in December 2025

  • Credential

    Host, "Suze Orman's Women & Money" podcast

    twice-weekly, 800-plus episodes

  • Milestone2023

    Named twice to TIME's 100 Most Influential People

    and to Forbes' "50 Over 50" (2023)

  • Milestone

    Official Personal Finance Educator for the U.S. Army and Army Reserve

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Is Suze Orman available for my event date?

Availability changes with Suze's schedule and the season. Tell us your date and we'll confirm whether Suze is open, and hold the slot while you decide.

What formats does Suze offer?

Suze is available for Keynote, Fireside chat, Moderation and Virtual engagements. We'll match the format to your audience and run-of-show.

What does Suze speak about?

Suze's keynote themes include Personal Finance, Financial Wellness, Money Mindset and Investing. Each talk is tailored to your audience and outcomes.

What languages does Suze present in?

Suze presents in English.

Where does Suze travel from?

Suze is based in New York, NY and travels internationally for engagements; virtual sessions are also available.

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