About Patricia Sellers
Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortunes’s most talked-about cover stories and major profiles, including Eddie Lampert (“The Best Investor of His Generation”), Martha Stewart (“I cannot be destroyed”), Meg Whitman (“eBay’s Secret”), Ted Turner (“Gone with the Wind”), and Oprah Winfrey (“Oprah Inc.”). A specialist at dissecting larger-than-life personalities, she has profiled many Fortune CEOs such as Goldman Sachs’ Hank Paulson, Morgan Stanley’s John Mack, and Home Depot’s Bob Nardelli. And she has broken ground with insightful pieces on career management issues such as ego (“Get Over Yourself!”), “Charisma: Do You Need It? Can You Get It?” and “So You Fail. So What?” Every year since its launch in 1998, Pattie has helped oversee FORTUNE’s “Most Powerful Women in Business” cover package. She also co-chairs the annual FORTUNE Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business, philanthropy, academia, and the arts. Pattie started at Fortune in 1984 following the top consumer brand companies and continues to write about Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Procter & Gamble.