Suze Orman is the author of four consecutive New York Times bestsellers, The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom; The Courage to Be Rich; The Road to Wealth; and The Laws of Money, The Lessons of Life; and the national bestsellers You've Earned It, Don't Lose It and Suze Orman's Financial Guidebook. The host of her own national award-winning CNBC-TV show, which airs every Saturday night, she is a contributing editor to O, The Oprah Magazine and is the featured writer on Yahoo! Personal Finance with her biweekly "Money Matters" series. She has written, co-produced, and hosted four PBS specials based on her bestselling books, which are among the network's most successful fund-raisers ever. The most recent, inspired by The Laws of Money, The Lessons of Life, earned her an Emmy Award.

A Certified Financial Planner Professional(r), Orman directed the Suze Orman Financial Group from 1987 to 1997, served as Vice-President-Investments for Prudential Bache Securities from 1983 to 1987, and from 1980 to 1983, was an account executive at Merrill Lynch. In 2003 she was inducted into the Books for Better Life Awards' Hall of Fame, in recognition of her ongoing contributions to the field of self-improvement. A highly sought-after public speaker worldwide, she was profiled in Worth magazine's hundredth issue as among those "who have revolutionized the way America thinks about money."