Overview
I'm a nonfiction editor and writer, most recently with Penguin Random House, with experience editing books on leadership, management, organizational behavior, workplace culture, technology, marketing, sales, entrepreneurship, career development, productivity, and time management. Over the course of my career, I've worked with a number of New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling authors, as well as other leaders, thinkers, and influencers who shape national and global conversations about business and our professional lives.
Nothing beats helping smart people translate their insights and expertise into compelling content to share with the world.
If you want help formulating a book proposal, writing a first draft, or fine-tuning a manuscript, let's talk.
Nothing beats helping smart people translate their insights and expertise into compelling content to share with the world.
If you want help formulating a book proposal, writing a first draft, or fine-tuning a manuscript, let's talk.
Services
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
Business & Management
Career Guides
Computers & Internet
Humanities & Social Sciences
Psychology
Self-Help & Self-Improvement
Technology
Writing & Publishing
Languages
English (UK)
English (US)
Work experience
Penguin Random House
Jan, 2011 —
Jan, 2017
(about 6 years)
I acquired and edited idea-driven and prescriptive books for the Portfolio imprint at Penguin Random House, in the fields of leadership, management, organizational behavior, workplace culture, technology, marketing, sales, entrepreneurship, career development, creativity, productivity and time management, and business narratives, as well as pop science and political titles.
Portfolio
The ultimate insider look at the newest titans of tech—and what you can learn from their successIn 2007, twenty-one-year old David Karp launched Tumblr, a simple micro-blogging platform, on a whim. By 2012, it had become one of the top ten online destinations,... read more
“An adulating biography of Apple’s left-brained wunderkind, whose work continues to revolutionize modern technology.” —Kirkus ReviewsIn 1997, Steve Jobs discovered a scruffy British designer toiling away at Apple’s headquarters, surrounded by hundreds of sketc... read more
A top NFL coach offers leadership advice that applies from the field to the office Tom Coughlin led the New York Giants to two Super Bowl victories with his unique system of relentless preparation and resilience. He teaches his players that you can never guara... read more
The moment you walk into Menlo Innovations, you can sense the atmosphere full of energy, playfulness, enthusiasm, and maybe even . . . joy. As a package-delivery person once remarked, “I don’t know what you do, but whatever it is, I want to work here.”Every ye... read more
“Most people just laugh when they hear that the secret to success is giving. . . . Then again, most people are nowhere near as successful as they wish they were.” The Go-Giver tells the story of an ambitious young man named Joe who yearns for success. Joe is a... read more
“No two exit experiences are exactly alike. Some people wind up happy with the process and satisfied with the way it turned out while others look back on it as a nightmare. The question I hope to answer in this book is why. What did the people with ‘good’ exit... read more
Everyone has an opinion, anecdote, or horror story about women and work. Now the acclaimed author of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast shows how real working women with families are actually making the most of their time. “Having it all” has ... read more
Haters are not your problem. . . . Ignoring them is. Eighty percent of companies say they deliver outstanding customer service, but only 8 percent of their customers agree. This book will help you close that gap by reconfiguring your customer service to deliv... read more
Forget about building a business—businesses fail and fade into oblivion. Start a revolution instead. James Watt started a rebellion against tasteless mass market beers by founding BrewDog, now one of the world’s best-known and fastest growing craft breweries, ... read more
"Superbosses is the rare business book that is chock full of new, useful, and often unexpected ideas. After you read Finkelstein's well-crafted gem, you will never go about leading, evaluating, and developing talent in quite the same way.”—Robert Sutton, autho... read more
We’ve been conditioned to think about creative genius as a dichotomy: dreamers versus doers, creativity versus discipline, the spark versus the grind. But what if we’re wrong? What if it’s the spark and the grind? We love people whose creative genius arrives i... read more
From the millionaire entrepreneur and New York Times bestselling author of The 10X Rule comes a bold and contrarian wake-up call for anyone truly ready for success. One of the 7 best motivational books of 2016, according to Inc. Magazine. Before Grant Cardone ... read more
The USA Today bestseller by the star sales speaker and author of The Sales Blog that reveals how all salespeople can attain huge sales success through strategies backed by extensive research and experience. Anthony Iannarino never set out to become a salesman,... read more
In your pocket is something amazing: a quick and easy way to summon a total stranger who will take you anywhere you’d like. In your hands is something equally amazing: the untold story of Uber’s meteoric rise, and the massive ambitions of its larger-than-life ... read more
Jenny Blake, author of Life After College and former career development program manager at Google, reveals how to methodically make your next career move by doubling down on what is already working.Careers are not linear, predictable ladders any longer; they a... read more
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