C.J. Hayden, MCC, is the best-selling author of Get Clients Now! (AMACOM, 2007), Get Hired Now! (Bay Tree, 2005) and The One-Person Marketing Plan Workbook. C.J. is a business coach and trainer who helps her clients achieve their right livelihood through building businesses that make a difference. She is a former management consultant with over 25 years of business experience. C.J. has been speaking and training professionally since 1978, and coaching since 1992.

C.J. has taught entrepreneurship, marketing, and personal growth skills for hundreds of organizations, including John F. Kennedy University, Mills College, The Coaches Training Institute, Chevron, Federal Express, Marriott, Wells Fargo, 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. She holds the credentials of Master Certified Coach and Certified Professional Co-Active Coach. C.J. currently serves on the boards of Grameen Shakti, Global Initiative to Advance Entrepreneurship and Choice: The Magazine of Professional Coaching, and directs the Send Girls to School Project. 

A popular speaker and workshop leader, C.J. has presented hundreds of programs on fearless self-promotion, entrepreneurial success, and finding right livelihood to corporate clients, nonprofit associations, and small businesses. Her articles have been published internationally in Home Business, Selling Power, and CareerSource magazines, and in numerous regional publications, including California Job Journal and Bay Area BusinessWoman. She contributes regularly to dozens of websites, including About.com, Business KnowHow, and RainToday.

C.J. has been featured in numerous books, including Get Slightly Famous, Take Back Your Time, and The Business and Practice of Coaching. She has been widely profiled internationally by print and broadcast media, including Investor's Business Daily, Priority Magazine, and Costco Connection.