Ms. Tietjen, President and CEO of Technically Speaking, Inc., is an engineer, speaker, and author. She is a consulting engineer in the electric utility industry performing generation and transmission planning work and frequently serves as an expert witness. She gives motivational speeches to large and small audiences around the country. Her books and articles cover technical topics, non-traditional careers for women, and historical women. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte as well as a licensed professional engineer in Colorado.
Ms. Tietjen regularly speaks on women in engineering, historical women in engineering and science, and leadership topics. Her introduction to engineering textbook, Keys to Engineering Success, was published by Prentice Hall in 2001. She is the co-author with Betty Reynolds of the Setting the Record Straight series of which three volumes have been published. She has written articles for and been profiled in SWE: Magazine of the Society of Women Engineers, Graduating Engineer, U.S. Woman Engineer, Woman Engineer, and Engineering Horizons. She served as the 1991-1992 National President of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). As Jill S. Baylor, she is a contributing author to the 1995 book She Does Math!
Ms. Tietjen has received numerous awards and honors including the 2001 Woman in Technology Award from the Women's Foundation of Colorado, Subaru, and News4; Tau Beta Pi's Distinguished Alumna Award, and she was named a Woman of Distinction by Girl Scouts Mile Hi Council. Ms. Tietjen serves on a number of non-profit boards and is currently Chair of the Board for Girl Scouts Mile Hi Council. She is a member of the Board of Directors for the Georgia Transmission Corporation of Tucker, Georgia. Ms. Tietjen is a Commissioner on the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, Inc., and serves as the Western Zone Vice President for the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying. She is a Fellow Life Member of SWE and a Senior Member of the IEEE Power Engineering Society. Ms. Tietjen is listed in Who's Who in Engineering, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, and Who's Who in Technology.