Own Your Path

When Tauni Crefeld-a top-ranked consultant and military veteran-entered the Air Force Academy with the 11th class to include women, she assumed that women had not only been admitted but also accepted. She learned that was far from the truth. After the military, when Crefeld joined a major consulting company, she was initially relieved to not face the discrimination she’d faced in the military. She was dismayed when she realized she and the other women in the corporate world were being held back by subtle, hidden obstacles. Crefeld, a solution-oriented leader used to turning around and fixing failing consulting projects set out to discover the source of the biases, and help women overcome them. The result is Own Your Path: A Career Roadmap for Women to Build Power and Change the Game, where Tauni reveals the strategies she learned, mostly the hard way, to support the women on her teams and achieve career success. Crefeld saw countless examples of women not advancing and reaching the executive levels, not due to their performance or capabilities, but because of invisible barriers they were unable to navigate around. Drawing on her military background, and leveraging her years of experience in the consulting and corporate worlds, she shares actionable, solution-oriented tips for overcoming the challenges women face, and enabling them to reach the highest levels.In this powerful guide, Crefeld reveals real-world stories from the military, consulting, and multiple Fortune 500 companies. In each environment women encountered situations where they were overworked, undervalued, or where they didn’t advocate for themselves and were left behind. With candid case studies and proven strategies, Own Your Path provides women solutions to navigate their career journey and achieve their own goals.