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    Jennifer K. Crittenden earned an MBA in finance and worked for over twenty years in the US and abroad, rising from financial analyst to chief financial officer. She is the author of five books, including the award-winning Discreet Guide for Executive Women. She offers professional development programs through her company The Discreet Guide.

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Jennifer has appeared on CNBC Power Lunch and has been interviewed by Bloomberg Businessweek, the Ledger-Enquirer, SalesFuel Manage Smarter Podcast, Price of Business Radio, Leadership Caffeine, Wagner Live, Jiggy Jaguar Radio, Recalculating Radio, IU News, IU Kelley School of Business, Women Leading the Way Radio, Women’s Ally, Millionaire Girls Movement, Women at the Top Radio, WNWS, Women Evolution, KIXI Chat with Women, ProSolo Radio, Your Story Matters, and Classy Career Girl.

She has been quoted in Business Week, The Glass Hammer, NBC Chicago, Fast Company, HR Executive, Little Pink Book and Keys to the Corner Office. She has had articles published in AMA Feed, Leadership Excellence, Millionaire Girls’ Movement, Florida Diversity Newsletter, Mission3 Newsletter, Managing Partner Magazine, the San Diego Union Tribune and the Del Mar Times. She contributed a chapter on Executive Presence and Branding to The Business Woman’s Personal Branding Guide.

Jennifer in Video:
Click here to see Jennifer on CNBC Power Lunch “Sex at Work and Collateral Damage” (11/12/12).
Click here to watch a skype interview with Anna Runyon on Classy Career Girl (9/28/12).
Click here to watch an interview at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business (4/23/12).

Jennifer in Print:

Click here to read “Why It’s Not HR’s Job to Make Us Get Along” published in Times USA (10/22/18)
Click here to read “Why Women Don’t Report” published on USA Business Radio (10/4/18)
Click here to read “Damage Control after #MeToo” published on USA Business Radio (8/28/18)
Click here to read “Now Is the Time for Gender Diversity Training – The Right Kind” published by Training Industry Magazine (7/18/18).
Click here to read an article about Ways to Combat Stage Fright published in AMA Feed (6/24/18). (No longer available.)
Click here to read an interview on The Price of Business about workplace romance. (7/7/14).
Click here to read an interview in Millionaire Girls’ Movement by Michelle Baker about my career, economics, and women. (6/27/14).
Click here to read an article in Fast Company by Gwen Moran about Strategies for Overcoming Workplace Gender Bias (6/3/14).
Click here to read an interview in Bloomberg Businessweek about Sex at Work (6/6/12).
Click to read George Vlahakis’s blog about The Discreet Guide (5/16/12) (no longer available).
Click to read an interview in Women’s Ally (7/1/12) (no longer available).
Click to read an article by Robin Madell about mentors and sponsors in The Glass Hammer (4/5/12) (no longer available).
Click to read an article about female executives by Bob Calandra (5/17/12). (no longer available).
Click here to read an article about exit interviews by David Wolinsky on NBC Chicago (5/31/12).

Jennifer on the Air:

Click here to listen to a forty-minute interview about books, gender issues, and all kinds of stuff on Leadership Caffeine with Art Petty. (11/24/18)
Click here to listen to a four-minute audio about “Why It’s Not HR’s Job to Make Us Get Along” on the Price of Business. (10/22/18)
Click here to listen to a forty-minute interview about gender issues in the workplace on Wagner Live. (10/14/18)
Click here to listen to a two-minute audio about “Why Didn’t She Report It?” on the Price of Business. (10/4/18)
Click here to listen to an interview on the Jiggy Jaguar Show about What’s a Guy to Do? (9/27/18)
Click here to listen to a four-minute audio about “Damage Control after #MeToo” on the Price of Business. (8/13/18)
Click here to listen to an interview with Kevin Price on the Price of Business about how companies should encourage diversity and What’s a Guy to Do? (7/4/18)
Click here to listen to an interview with Manage Smarter about hiring well to keep out troublemakers. (6/19/18)
Click here to listen to an interview with Recalculating Media about her new book What’s a Guy to Do? (6/18/18) (No longer available.)
Click here to listen to a webinar Jennifer did on Collaboration Across Genders in the Workplace (6/6/12) for the Kelley School of Business. (No longer available.)
Click here to listen to an interview on Your Story Matters with Angela Schaeffers (4/19/12).
Click here to listen to an interview on Women at the Top Network with Regina Barr, CEO of Red Ladder, Inc. (5/15/12)

Press Releases:

“The Discreet Guide Announces ‘Dear Discreet Guide: Trouble at Work,’ a Podcast about Problems, Especially People Problems, at Work” January 11, 2019. Click here.

“A New Book, ‘What’s a Guy to Do? How to Work with Women’ Champions Better Working Relationships to Foster Gender Diversity” June 15, 2018. Click here.
“A New Book, ‘What’s a Guy to Do? How to Work with Women,’ Will Be Published this Summer” March 29, 2018. Click here.
“The Discreet Guide introduces YOUR AMERICAN VOICE, a new accent reduction and understandability training program for English learners, especially Mandarin speakers” August 4, 2017. Click here.
“The Pergola, a free digital magazine from the The Discreet Guide, celebrates its first year; Content is focused on career advice, gender issues, book and movie reviews, and comic relief” February 22, 2017. Click here.
“The Pergola, a New Publication from The Discreet Guide, Focuses on Career Advice, Gender Issues, Book and Movie Reviews, and Laughs” December 18, 2015. Click here.
“You, Not I: Exceptional Presence through the Eyes of Others, a new career advice book by Jennifer K. Crittenden” May 20, 2014. Click here.
“The Discreet Guide Releases New Study Results Indicating Executive Presence is Acquired Rather Than Inborn, with Both Genders Feeling Equally Confident (or Not) About Their Presence” May 15, 2014. Click here.
“Creating Executive Presence Coaching Program for Women Congratulates Its First Graduate” April 25, 2013. Click here.
“The Ultimate New Year’s Resolution for Women in Business: Develop Executive Presence in 2013” Dec 28, 2012. Click here.
“New Individualized Course on Creating Executive Presence Will Launch in 2013 – Available Anywhere in the World” Dec 27, 2012. Click here.
“The Discreet Guide for Executive Women Wins National Indie Excellence Award and Gains Media Attention” June 21, 2012. Click here.
“College Alumna Receives National Recognition” June 15, 2012. (no longer available).
“Local Author Receives National Recognition” June 1, 2012. Click here.
“IU alumna and author of ‘The Discreet Guide for Executive Women’ visiting the Kelley School” April 18, 2012. Click here.
For a hilarious back translation of the above press release “IU alumna upon vacation at Kelley School,” click “A clinging manager”–too funny.
“The Discreet Guide for Executive Women. Release by Kelley and Hall Book Publicity” May 14, 2012. Click here.

Bio:
Jennifer K. Crittenden earned a BA in Linguistics and French with high distinction from Indiana University, a Baccalaureate certificate in Film Studies, and an MBA in Finance and MIS from the Kelley School of Business. For over twenty years, she has worked for big pharma and biotech companies in the U.S., U.K. and Europe, rising from financial analyst to CFO.

Upon graduation from business school, she joined Bristol-Myers Squibb and worked for their divisions in Warsaw, Indiana, Santa Barbara, California, and Brussels, Belgium. She then moved to the sunny skies of San Diego to participate in the emerging biotech industry which eventually led her to eight years of association with Smith & Nephew, working in the U.S. and the U.K. She moved on to serve as Chief Accounting Officer for Anadys Pharmaceuticals, a public biotech company, and as CFO for Biocept, Inc., a private diagnostics company.

She is the author of The Discreet Guide for Executive Women: How to Work Well with Men (and Other Difficulties), an Amazon bestseller and winner of the 2012 National Independent Excellence Award in the Business-Motivational Category. In 2014, she published her second book: You Not I: Exceptional Presence through the Eyes of Others. In 2018, she published What’s a Guy to Do? How to Work with Women. She writes and speaks frequently on topics related to gender, communication, and work.

Jennifer offers professional development training programs through The Discreet Guide(TM) on interpersonal, communication, performance, presentation skills and language skills. She was also the executive coach for the Executive Presence program offered through the University of Wisconsin and MBA Women International.

Jennifer has appeared on CNBC Power Lunch and has been interviewed by Bloomberg Businessweek, the Ledger-Enquirer, SalesFuel Manage Smarter Podcast, Price of Business Radio, Jiggy Jaguar Radio, Recalculating Radio, IU News, IU Kelley School of Business, Women Leading the Way Radio, Women’s Ally, Millionaire Girls Movement, Women at the Top Radio, WNWS, Women Evolution, KIXI Chat with Women, ProSolo Radio, Your Story Matters, and Classy Career Girl.

She has been quoted in Business Week, The Glass Hammer, NBC Chicago, HR Executive, Fast Company, and Keys to the Corner Office. She has had articles published in Leadership Excellence, Times USA, Florida Diversity Newsletter, Mission3 Newsletter, Managing Partner Magazine, the San Diego Union Tribune and the Del Mar Times. She contributed a chapter on Executive Presence and Branding to The Business Woman’s Personal Branding Guide.

She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and has a CELTA certificate from the University of Cambridge to teach English as a second language. She serves on the board of directors of the Eastern Sierra Interpretive Association, a non-profit intended to educate and inspire people about Eastern Sierra public lands through high quality interpretive products, exhibits, and programs. She previously served on the advisory board of CoralBridge Partners, a leadership consulting and conflict mediation company, and Women Evolution, a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of women.

How do you pronounce “Crittenden?” /KRIT ndәn/

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