Atlanta

SHAUNTI FELDHAHN

Bestselling Author-Latest Release: The Male Factor

Shaunti Feldhahn began her career as an analyst on Wall Street and today is a bestselling author, speaker, and groundbreaking researcher. Her recent bestsellers have sold more than one million copies and have been translated into 18 different languages. The books in her popular “Only” series, including For Women Only: What You Need to Know About the Inner Lives of Men, and For Men Only: A Straightforward Guide to the Inner Lives of Women, For Parents Only and For Young Women Only (both of which were co-authored with youth speaker Lisa Rice), and For Young Men Only (co-authored with husband Jeff Feldhahn and Eric Rice, husband to Lisa Rice) have led to great life-change—and plenty of fascinating conversation—for men, women, parents and teens around the country. She has also authored two true-to-life spiritual thrillers.

Shaunti’s newest book The Male Factor was released January 2010. This book is a startling exploration of what men privately think in the workplace but rarely share - perceptions that often fundamentally affect their female colleagues. Shaunti is now speaking to corporate groups and sharing this new research, so that women in the workplace can avoid unintentional self-sabotage and be particularly effective and influential with male bosses, colleagues, clients or subordinates.

One reason Shaunti’s books, talks and columns have hit such a nerve that she applies her background as an analyst in a whole new way. She holds a master’s in public policy from Harvard University, and a bachelor’s in government and economics from The College of William & Mary. She has also been able to apply her analytical background in journalism. Shaunti recently concluded six years as a nationally syndicated columnist on women’s issues, with columns in 50 newspapers.

Prior to becoming an author, she worked in the financial arena on Capitol Hill and later on Wall Street, analyzing the Japanese financial crisis for the highest level decision makers of the Federal Reserve System. She now applies that same skill set to investigating eye-opening truths that many of us tend to miss. (For example, what women don’t ‘get’ about men!)

As a popular national speaker and broadcaster, Shaunti travels extensively and has shared her findings with millions of people through conferences, television, and radio. She has appeared on such diverse media outlets as Fox News, PBS, TNT, Soap Talk, The Alan Colmes Show, Focus on the Family, and FamilyLife Today.

Shaunti and her husband Jeff, with whom she coauthored For Men Only, are active leaders in their Atlanta-area church and, as parents of young children, enjoy every minute of living at warp speed. They have become quite good at juggling soccer games, karate lessons, Jeff’s business (software company World2one), and family speaking trips with the whole traveling circus in tow. As their favorite shirts put it, “Life is good.”

What others have said about Shaunti speaking...
"We recently purchased 9,000 copies of Shaunti’s book, For Women Only, and gave one to every woman in our congregations as part of a special Sunday morning event. I interviewed Shaunti on stage during our three morning worship services. The response was incredible. She has an engaging, compelling way of presenting her findings about how men think. It helped open the eyes of women to the real needs of the men in their lives, and it gave men a common language to use to talk about these things with their wives. I urge churches and other groups to give her the opportunity to share this message."Andy Stanley-Senior Pastor
North Point Community Church

Shaunti Feldhahn exceeded our expectations when she spoke on our campus. She connected with both the females and males in our student body with her enjoyable conversational speaking style and with her research that is hard to argue with. Our students were still talking about her presentation days after she left and our bookstore has had to reorder her books as they have been in demand since her talk. There is no question, we highly recommend Shaunti and plan to bring her back!
Jon Purple-Dean for Student Life Programs Cedarville University

Shaunti is winsome, authentic and an absolutely delightful speaker with a message that is right on target. Armed with careful research on the inner thoughts of men, she has her finger on the pulse of women and the men they love. Her message is practical, informative, uplifting, thought provoking, and challenging. The women of our church were inspired to take the information she shared and to enrich their relationships with the men in their lives. We are following up her visit with her new workbook, For Women Only. I heartily recommend Shaunti Feldhahn and look forward to another opportunity to have her here at Bellevue Baptist Church.
Marge Lenow, Bellevue Baptist

Shaunti was recommended to our company by one of our employees who had been privileged to hear her. We are glad we accepted that recommendation as Shaunti lead workshops for women only at our annual company conference and retreat and was powerful in relating to the audience and with data to backup her research findings. We then invited Shaunti to conduct a series of workshops at our corporate headquarters and she again engaged the audience with some thought-provoking issues. Anyone wanting to give an opportunity for a learning experience for the different genders should certainly consider talking with Shaunti and invite her to be a guest presenter.
Becky Padgett, Wells Real Estate Funds, Inc.

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