Terri Tierney Clark

Terri Tierney Clark, a graduate of Smith College and Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business, has over 20 years of business experience in senior positions at companies like Merrill Lynch and her own advisory business. Terri was among the first female managing directors in investment banking on Wall Street and was elected to Merrill Lynch’s first women's steering committee.

Ever since she started working with young women in investment banking, Terri realized they had different challenges than their male peers. When she noticed that today women seem to be Leaning In, but still often weren't making the right choices, she decided to write Learn, Work, Lead.

Of course, two daughters in college were also her impetus. She would like them and their female peers to succeed in their careers unlike any generation of women before them. Terri also has a son in high school who she's going to make read Work, Learn, Lead because there's good career advice for men in the book too.

Terri's husband is also a finance guy which makes it especially hard in their house for their kids to borrow a few bucks without getting a lecture on money management.

Terri lives in the Washington D.C. area but likes to visit Maine in the summer and watch beautiful sunsets. She is a good runner, an awful swimmer, and often accused of being a swagless mom. Coffee is her drug, laughter is her cure.