As one of the leaders in the emerging profession of coaching, C.J. was a founding director of the worldwide Professional & Personal Coaches Association (now part of the International Coach Federation). She currently chairs the Coaches Make A Difference Initiative and serves on the advisory board of Choice: The Magazine of Professional Coaching. She is a Master Certified Coach and has taught coaching skills for The Coaches Training Institute, Marriott International, Wells Fargo Bank, and BP Amoco.

As an activist and social entrepreneur, C.J. is the founder of Send Girls to School, and serves on the board of the Global Initiative to Advance Entrepreneurship.

A popular speaker and seminar leader, C.J. has presented hundreds of programs on relationship marketing, fearless self-promotion, and entrepreneurial success to corporate clients, professional associations, and small businesses. Her articles have been published internationally in Home Business, Selling Power, and SalesDoctors magazines, and in numerous regional publications, including California Job Journal and Bay Area BusinessWoman. She contributes regularly to dozens of web sites, including Eyes on Sales, Business KnowHow, and Sharper Training.

C.J. has been featured in Investor's Business Daily, Home Office Computing, and Costco Connection, and in numerous books, including Get Slightly Famous, How to Position Yourself as the Obvious Expert, and The Business and Practice of Coaching. She has been widely profiled internationally by newspapers, radio, and TV.

ALSO ABOUT C.J. HAYDEN

C.J. was born in Mount Kisco, New York, but left almost immediately. Before declaring herself a citizen of California, she had lived in sixteen cities, eight states, and two Canadian provinces. C.J. dropped out of high school and ran away to Canada at the age of 15, and has been on her own ever since. After hitchhiking from coast to coast, she began her entrepreneurial career by making jewelry and raising rabbits in a logging cabin on Vancouver Island. Eventually making her way to San Francisco, C.J. put herself through college at night over a period of ten years.

Before turning 30, C.J. held over fifty jobs, including carhop, bank teller, computer programmer, surveyor, product manager, and planetary geologist. She has been self-employed as a technical writer, corporate trainer, seminar producer, software developer, and management consultant. An instinctive gate-crasher and determined survivor, C.J. has created her own path to success by applying her special blend of persistence, resourcefulness, and an ability to relate to just about anyone.