Susan Walsh

Susan Walsh is The Classification Guru. She has been cleaning, classifying, and fixing dirty data for over a decade and set up The Classification Guru Ltd in 2017 to solve dirty data problems in the procurement world. She now helps over 80 clients across the globe.

As well as an entrepreneur, Susan is an industry thought-leader, influencer and global speaker. She has been listed in the DataIQ100 and won DataIQ Data Champion in 2022 and 2023. She’s been a Key Influencer for the Accounts Payable Association for two years in a row, promoting the benefits of clean data across industries.

As the published author of Between the Spreadsheets: Classifying and Fixing Dirty Data, Susan has online courses about data cleaning on Pluralsight and O’Reilly. She is also a TEDx speaker, and her talk about resilience, Say NO to NO, has amassed 3k views and counting.

Having created the data COAT framework used by The Classification Guru team, Susan has helped companies worldwide save time and money as they see the value in cleaning and maintaining their ‘dirty data’.

Her latest brainchild is an on-demand supplier normalisation tool called Samification, which will launch in October 2024 after many years of development.

Susan has attended hundreds of events in the data and procurement space, whether online or in person, as a speaker, an exhibitor, or an influencer. Want to tackle your dirty data? Susan Walsh is your go-to expert!