Susan Walsh

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

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

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

Susan has created the data COAT framework, which is used by The Classification Guru team and has helped companies across the globe save time and money thanks to seeing the value in cleaning and maintaining their ‘dirty data’.

She’s also created and is launching a new on-demand supplier normalisation tool, Samification in October 2024 after building and developing this for many years.

Susan has attended hundreds of events in the data and procurement space, whether that be online or in person, as a speaker, an exhibitor, or an influencer, and she is still active in tackling your dirty data!