About Me
Since leaving the world of consulting 15 years ago, I have published articles on leadership, marketing, business trends, and innovative business thinkers in publications such as MWorld, the journal of the American Management Association, Smart Business, Selling Power, Priorities, Executive Excellence, Opportunity World and other magazines; have been quoted in newspapers and magazines such as Investor’s Business Daily, The Wall Street Journal, and the Economist; and have been interviewed on numerous local and national radio shows. I was also the subject of feature articles in Fortune magazine and the Chicago Tribune, and a speaker on leadership at a private event at Rockefeller Center (the other two speakers, Jack Welch and Jim Collins, were slightly better known to the audience).
I have ghostwritten, edited and collaborated on a variety of business books including: Prime Movers by Rafael Ramirez and Johan Wallin (2000, John Wiley), Designing Interactive Strategy by Richard Normann and Rafael Ramirez (1994, John Wiley), Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur by Stuart Skorman (2007, Jossey-Bass), and Action Reflection Learning by Isabel Rimanoczy and Ernie Turner, (2008, Davies Black). In 2006, I published an anthology on the greatest marketing books of all time called The Marketing Gurus (2006, Penguin).
A graduate of George Washington University, I began my career as a reporter for daily newspapers in Massachusetts and Virginia.
In the late 1980s, as European countries prepared for union, I left journalism to embark on a career as a business consultant. I moved to France (my mother was French, and I speak the language fluently) and joined SMG France, an international firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions and business development. Through numerous projects with companies in France, the United Kingdom and Scandinavia, I developed a finer understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced by businesses around the world.
I then became editor, and eventually editor in chief, of an international newsletter on business books called Soundview Executive Book Summaries. During those years, I read and reviewed thousands of business books, and interviewed many of the world’s leading business book authors.