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    Inspired to extend a helping hand to ambitious women working in corporate America, a veteran executive offers honest, practical, slightly irreverent advice about navigating companies that are run and populated predominately by men.

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    Learn to see yourself as others do and become magnetic, magnanimous, and memorable! Savvy advice, specific examples, and tactical exercises to develop your presence—in months, not years.

  • About the Author

    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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Articles

Exceptional Presence:
Six Tips for Keeping Your Cool Under Fire
One Way to Reduce Your Accent and Improve Your Understandability Today
The Other: Our Mirror
The Test of Good Manners Is How You Handle Those With None
The Magic of Common Courtesy
Punctuality: A New Leaf
Practical Solutions to Stage Fright
Travel: Try Out a New You
We Regret Nothing: Why Nobody Can Apologize Anymore
Don’t Go into that Meeting … Naked!
Exceptional Presence for the Job Seeker – Q & A
Exceptional Presence for the Job Seeker – Q & A – Part Two
Exceptional Presence for the Job Seeker – Q & A – Part Three
Personal Branding and Professional Presence
Being Present: It’s More Than Just Showing Up
Workplace Humor: Five Golden Rules -or- What’s So Funny about Executive Presence?
Executive Presence: Behaviors and Perceptions – Article in Leadership Excellence
Creating Executive Presence: An Excerpt from the Course Handbook
“Oh, You Sound So Young” – How Youthful Vocal Styles Can Detract from Your Executive Presence
I’m Young – So What?

Management:
Why Does Our Training Stink?
Practice, Using Your Head
Do You Have the Right Boss, Organizationally?
Do You Have the Right Boss, as an Individual?
Good Personnel Management – Excerpt from The Discreet Guide for Executive Women Chapter Eight (Abridged)

Bullies:
Is Bullying the New Witch Hunt?
Bullies at Large
Bullies – Short Excerpt from The Discreet Guide for Executive Women Chapter Seven (Abridged)
Bully for No One (poem)

Gender Issues:
What Is She? The Sex That Cannot Be Named
What’s a Guy To Do? Seven Ground Rules for Working with Women
Super Bad Guys – Excerpted from The Discreet Guide for Executive Women
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace – Excerpted from The Discreet Guide for Executive Women
The Shimmer – Women’s March – San Diego – January 21, 2017
The Hidden Risk of Business Travel: Scandal
A MAN Is Not an ATM
The Cost of Beauty
Beyond “You Look Nice”
Searching for Equality
Op-Ed: Ellen Pao, Your Former Nanny
Op-Ed: Ellen Pao, Poster Child
Gender Matters: Cases of Mistaken…Gender
“Sorry, Ladies” – The Dark Side of Workplace Humor
Threading the Needle – Advice for Women Working in a Male-Dominated Environment
Stories from the Belly of the Beast
The F-Word (Or, Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?)
TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER. Where Is She?
Some Girls Are Better Than Others
Newsflash from the Dropouts: We Have Not Forgotten

Humor:
QUIZ – Are You Cut Out to Work with Men?
Some Good Ways to Irritate People at Networking Events [Snark Alert]
Op-Ed — Good News: Girls Win!
Have You Seen My Glasses? I Can’t Hear Without Them
Mitt Romney’s “Women/Binders” Email

Other:
Op-Ed: America, What Has Become of Us?
A Woman’s Worth: Salary Negotiation
Lifting the Veil on Wedding Costs
Get Out There! Interviewing for New Graduates
Choosing Your First Company – For Recent Female Graduates
Moving On – Deciding When to Leave
Business Travel – My Two Cents
Business Travel – Other People’s Two Cents
Business Travel Apps
My First EDMS, A How-Not-To Story

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  • Archived Issues

    Click here for the "Debunking Psychological Studies" Issue - November 2019.

    Click here for the "Imposter Syndrome" Issue - May 2019.

    Click here for the "Improv" Issue - Mar 2019.

    Click here for the "Podcast" Issue - Jan 2019.

    Click here for the "Books" Issue - Nov 2018.

    Click here for the "Civility and Anger" Issue - Sep 2018.

    Click here for the "Women and Money" Issue - July 2018.

    Click here for the "Training" Issue - May 2018.

    Click here for the "Lady" Issue - Mar 2018.

    Click here for the "Year of the Woman" Issue - Jan 2018.

    Click here for the "Sexual Misconduct" Issue - Nov 2017.

    Click here for the "Empathy" Issue - Sep 2017.

    Click here for the "Uncommon Courtesy" Issue - July 2017.

    Click here for the "Humor" Issue - May 2017.

    Click here for the "Stage Fright" Issue - Mar 2017.

    Click here for the "Women's March" Issue - Jan 2017.

    Click here for the "Executive Presence" Issue - Nov 2016.

    Click here for the "New Opportunity, i.e., Looking for Work" Issue - Sep 2016.

    Click here for the "Business Travel" Issue - July 2016.

    Click here for the "Bully" Issue - May 2016.

    Click here for the "Men, Women, and Money" Issue - March 2016.

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    Click here for the November 2015 Apology Edition.

    Click here for the September 2015 Single Mother Edition.

    Click here for the July 2015 Negotiation Edition.

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    Click here for the Mar 2015 First Edition.

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