User:Janbking

Jan B. King is a publisher-turned-coach/strategist and one of the founders and the Editorial Director of eWomenPublishingNetwork, devoted to transforming women who are experts with important contributions in their fields into successfully published authors.

She began her career with Merritt Publishing, a then 30-year-old publishing company, in 1983. When the company's founder retired in 1990, she became President and CEO. Ms. King transformed this small niche publisher into an employee-owned business as well as a recognized brand for financial information to professionals and consumers. She doubled revenues during the first half of her eight-year tenure, finally leading the company through an employee-buyout and its eventual sale to a leading training company in 1998.

In 1997, Merritt Publishing was named the 44th largest woman owned/run business in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Business Journal. Ms. King was also a member of Vistage (a membership organization for CEOs) for six years, and co-founded a women's CEO group.

She is the author of two books. Her book Business Plans to Game Plans is praised by academics and business people alike and is in its 3rd edition (John Wiley & Sons, 2004). Her second book Smart Women Publish was published in 2005. Ms. King is a long-time member of the Author's Guild.

Ms. King has served on several Boards of Directors, including the Enterprise Institute Board for the National Association of Women Business Owners, Los Angeles. She has been a mentor with the Vistage on Campus program for the Anderson School of Business at UCLA, and is an instructor with SCORE.

She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Southern California with a BA in History and Economics. In 2002, she received the award for "Outstanding Performance as a Small Business Woman's Advocate" from the SBA/California Small Business Development Centers.