C.J. is the author of Get Clients Now! (AMACOM, 2007), Get Hired Now! (Bay Tree, 2005) and The One-Person Marketing Plan Workbook, and a
contributing author to Guerrilla Marketing on the Front
Lines. She has taught marketing for John F. Kennedy University, Mills College, SCORE, and the U.S. Small
Business Administration.
A pioneer in the emerging profession of
coaching, C.J. was a founding director of the worldwide Professional & Personal Coaches
Association (later merged with 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 the Send Girls to
School Project, and serves on the boards of Grameen Shakti
and Global Initiative to
Advance Entrepreneurship.
A popular speaker and workshop 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
Sales and Marketing Management, and in numerous regional publications, including
California Job Journal and Bay Area BusinessWoman. She contributes regularly
to dozens of online publications, including Rainmaker Report, SalesDog,
Principled Profit, and About.com.
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 Westchester County, 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
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.
To find out more about C.J., also visit C.J. Hayden, Social Entrepreneur Coach, Get Hired Now!, and How to Become a Hero.
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C.J. Hayden, MCC, is a
business coach and consultant who teaches people to make a better living doing what they love.
Her company, Wings for Business, specializes in serving entrepreneurs, self-employed
professionals, and people in marketing and sales. C.J. is a former corporate productivity
consultant with over 25 years experience in business management. She has been a professional
trainer since 1978, and a coach since 1992.
