Selena Rezvani

Selena Rezvani is an American author, speaker, and leadership consultant who specializes in women’s leadership, workplace negotiation, and the dynamics of executive presence and influence. She is the author of Pushback: How Smart Women Ask — and Stand Up — for What They Want (2012) and The Next Generation of Women Leaders: What You Need to Lead but Won’t Learn in Business School (2009), both published to positive reception in the leadership and business literature space.

Her books address the specific challenges women face in advocating for themselves in the workplace — asking for promotions, negotiating salaries, claiming credit, and exercising authority — with practical guidance drawn from interviews with senior female executives and from behavioral research. She argues that the failure of many women to self-advocate is not a personal deficiency but a rational response to a double bind in which the same behaviors that are rewarded in men are penalized in women, and that understanding this dynamic is the first step toward navigating it strategically.

Rezvani earned her M.B.A. from Johns Hopkins University’s Carey Business School and has been a contributor to The Washington Post, Forbes, Fast Company, and other business publications. She has been a speaker at conferences on women’s leadership, human resources, and organizational development, and has worked with companies including Johnson and Johnson, Comcast, and IBM on leadership development programs.

She continues to consult, speak, and write on the intersection of gender and organizational leadership, and is recognized as a practical and evidence-grounded voice in the women’s leadership space.