L. J. Rittenhouse is president of Rittenhouse Rankings Inc, a CEO and investor relations advisory company. Rittenhouse builds programs for large and mid-sized companies that improve internal and external corporate communications and strengthen valuation. She specializes in showing clients how to penetrate corporate blind spots so they can increase efficiency and improve execution. Her contributions to promoting capital stewardship and candor have been recognized by Warren Buffett, Jack Bogle, Jack Welch and other respected business leaders.
Rittenhouse conducts an annual survey of CEO candor and correlates CEO Candor rankings with stock price performance. Her research shows that candor drives superior performance, and companies that consistently strive to promote candor gain competitive advantage and superior valuation.
Rittenhouse is the author of Buffett’s Bites: (McGraw-Hill 2010) and Do Business with People You Can Tru$t, both featured selections at the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting. A frequent speaker at conferences and corporate retreats, Ms. Rittenhouse has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Yahoo Finance, BNN and also in The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, The Motley Fool, CNN.com, The IR Alert, and other forums. Tru$t describes how to spot CEOs who damage trust and has been recommended by Barron’s, Directors & Boards Association, and the American Association of Independent Investors.