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""Cindie lays out the blueprint that is easy to read, but sometimes hard to follow: Work hard, trust your instincts, have the courage to do what you know is right, and don't look to others for validation; rather, find it in the deeper contentment rooted in a job well done."" -Mark CooperPresident, Seasons 52 and Bahama Breeze""Shards in My Hair is packed with valuable real-life career lessons of experience, from entry-level to the boardroom, demonstrating important leadership insights in action. Cindie shares her journey in a thoroughly engaging, transparent, and humble way, laced with humor and hard-earned wisdom."" -Fraser ClarkLeadership Consultant/Executive Coach, ARC Leadership Associates""In a world where everything looks easy from the outside-in, Jamison gets real about the mess that is life and the fascinating journey that led a single mom to the top of the business world."" -Kimberly SimpsonGeneral Counsel, National Association of Corporate Directors""Cindie Jamison's highly entertaining and informative book is more than a map for future female executives... Combine the ingredients of hard work, perseverance, and a sense of humor with universal advice of how to succeed in the executive suite and boardroom and you have a winning book for everyone."" -Jane HowzeManaging Director, The Alexander Group (national executive search firm)""Unfiltered, witty, and refreshingly honest, Shards in My Hair pulls back the curtain on what it really takes to succeed in the corporate world... A must read for anyone navigating leadership, career pivots, or personal growth. Equal parts hilarious and empowering, this is the no-BS guide to success you didn't know you needed."" -Maya TubicOwner, I Love My Assistant

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Cynthia Jamison ascended to the top echelons of corporate governance after a successful career as a turnaround CFO. With an undergraduate degree from Duke University and a master's in finance from the University of Chicago, she ascended through the financial world with jobs in banking, accounting, consumer products, professional services, and various other industries. She became a first-time public company CFO in 1999 at the age of 39. From there, she became a partner at an interim CFO equity partnership specializing in middle-market turnarounds. There she successfully led six different organizations (both public and private-equity backed) through turnarounds as either CFO or COO-eventually moving into a practice leadership role within the firm where she had three hundred-plus CFOs reporting to her. She elevated the profile of the firm through thought leadership initiatives which included keynote addresses to major financial audiences on topics such as the risks of the CFO role.In 2009 she accepted one last CFO role at a small environmental start-up, secured equity funding for that company during the Great Recession of 2008-09, and built out the finance function. That company survives today, although Ms. Jamison formally retired as CFO in 2013. She remained on the board of directors until she recently stepped down, in part to focus on this book.Ms. Jamison joined her first public company board of directors in 2002 and continued from there to build an impressive board portfolio. In the twenty-plus years since then, she has chaired four boards, three public and one private, and actively chairs one today. She has chaired five audit committees. She retired in 2023 as chairman of the board of Tractor Supply Company-one of the highest-performing stocks in this century-where she had served for twenty-one years. Today she serves on the boards of Darden Restaurants, Office Depot, and International Flavors & Fragrances.Ms. Jamison recently completed a four-year term as a member of FASAC, the advisory board to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). In addition, she is an NACD Board Leadership Fellow and was awarded the honor of ""Top 100 Director."" She also sits on the board of Save the Children. She is a frequent keynote speaker on CFO and boardroom topics, and has been quoted as a financial/economic expert in Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, CFO.com, Agenda, Corporate Board Member, and the Economist.

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