When Suzy Welch walked into the first meeting of the first university course she had ever taught, in the fall of 2022, she looked out onto 20 students. She and the dean of New York University’s Stern School of Business had agreed that the new course, which Welch had created and intriguingly named “Becoming You,” should be offered to two sections of no more than 40 students each–one section for full-time MBA students and one for part-time students. Neither section had reached its modest limit. She recalls, “I went to that classroom saying to myself, ‘What made you think you could do this?’”
One week later, the full-time section alone had a wait list of 150 students, all from word of mouth.
