About the Author

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Joan Kuhl, founder of the Why Millennials Matter and Courage to Stay movements, is an author, speaker, and unabashed champion of women and girls in leadership. Through her international speaking engagements, research, and consulting she’s directly impacted on leaders from more than sixty countries and has transformed the internal workings of some of the world’s largest corporations and institutions, including Goldman Sachs, Eli Lilly and Company, Johnson & Johnson, Moody’s, Discovery Communications, FINRA, Novo Nordisk, Viacom, the NY Mets, and Columbia Business School. She spent thirteen years working in the pharmaceutical industry.

Over the years Joan has also made it her mission to directly support established and rising women leaders by launching and working with more than a dozen corporate women’s networks and intergenerational employee resource groups, as well stepping into a role as a #SheBelieves Champion for the US Soccer Organization, becoming a contributor to Forbes-Women, and serving on the boards for the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute and Girls Inc. of New York City. Her expertise has been featured in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, CNBC, and Success Magazine. Joan is the author of Misunderstood Millennial Talent: The Other 91% and coauthor of Peter Drucker’s Five Most Important Questions: Enduring Wisdom for Today’s Leaders. Joan earned her BS/BA at the University of Pittsburgh and earned an MBA from Rutgers University, where she studied global business strategies in Beijing and Shanghai, China.

For more from Joan and updates on her latest empowerment and advancement initiatives (or just life with her two awesome, strong daughters), drop by www.joankuhl.com or say hi to her on Instagram at @JoanKuhl and LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/joankuhl/.