Jennifer K. Crittenden, award-winning author of The Discreet Guide for Executive Women, a career advice book for women working in corporate America.

Raised on a farm in southern Indiana by an idealistic professor and a feminist homemaker, and after language and film studies in Europe, Jennifer was an unlikely candidate to graduate from a leading business school and enter corporate America. To her surprise, she excelled in her new world and spent the next twenty years building a scintillating career, rising from Financial Analyst to Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary, working for big pharma and biotech companies in the US, Europe, and the UK. She has now come full circle, from numbers and technology, to her love of words, by writing her first book. She speaks and writes frequently on topics related to gender, language, and communication.