C.J. Hayden, MCC, is a career and business coach who teaches people to make a better living doing what they love. Her company, Wings Business Coaching, specializes in working with business owners, 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 trainer since 1978, and a coach since 1992.
C.J. is the author of Get Clients NOW! (AMACOM, 1999), Get Hired NOW! and The One-Person Marketing Plan Workbook. She has taught Marketing for John F. Kennedy University, Mills College, Lifeprint, SCORE, and the U.S. Small Business Administration.
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 also founded and served as editor of Being in Action: The Journal of Professional & Personal Coaching. C.J. is a Master Certified Coach and has taught coaching skills for The Coaches Training Institute, Marriott International, Wells Fargo Bank, and BP Amoco.
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 nationally in Home Business, Winning Strategies, and SalesDoctors magazines, and in numerous regional publications, including California Job Journal and Bay Area BusinessWoman. She is a columnist for The Garol Business Review and contributes regularly to the web sites Sharper Training, BizLand, Power HomeBiz, SalesVault, and Business KnowHow.
C.J. has been featured in Working Woman, Home Office Computing, and Costco Connection, and in six books, including The Solo Professional, Get Slightly Famous, and The Eleven Commandments of Wildly Successful Women. She has been profiled by the San Francisco Examiner, Oakland Tribune, KCBS Radio, KGO TV's "Marketplace" and Bay TV's "All Consuming." C.J. regularly appears on syndicated radio programs such as "In Pursuit of Success" and "Small Business Focus."
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.
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