I am a business editor, writer, and content strategist who has helped leading thinkers, writers, and organizations bring out the best in their ideas for more than 25 years. Thought leadership has taken the form of books, articles, data visualizations, case studies, white papers, courseware, and strategic plans with wide appeal.
My writing and reporting have appeared in publications such as Wired, Salon, Portfolio.com, The Economist, The Industry Standard, The Financial Times, The Nation, Food & Wine, Sunset, Parenting, and San Francisco Classical Voice. I have collaborated with leading thinkers to write and edit articles that have appeared in Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, The McKinsey Quarterly, The Economist Intelligence Unit, The Financial Times, Fortune.com, BCG Perspectives, Accenture Research, Deloitte Insights, and Strategy+Business, as well as bestselling business books published by Random House, Harvard Business Review Press, St. Martin’s Press, and Wiley.
Most recently I was editor in chief at Tanium’s Focal Point brand journalism magazine and a senior editor at T Brand Studio of The New York Times, as well as deputy editor at Boston Consulting Group, where I scaled up and coached BCG’s network of 28 high-performing freelance thought-leadership writers and managed the creation of innovative interactive and infographic data visualizations. Previously as a senior writer at BCG, I wrote dozens of high-profile thought-leadership articles and reports on topics such as big data, digital transformation, marketing, pricing, education, and social impact.
I was formerly a part of the launch team and an executive editor of The Industry Standard magazine, assistant managing editor for new media at Time Inc.’s Parenting magazine, and chief content editor for the Jack Welch Management Institute. I have an MBA from Columbia Business School, a master of journalism degree from UC Berkeley, and a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from Brown University. More information is at my Web site: https://insightcontentlab.com/
SubjectsEconomics, management, leadership, people and organizations, work, social impact, philanthropy, nonprofits, marketing, pricing, AI, cybersecurity, data and analytics, blockchain, digital transformation, healthcare, classical music, wine, careers, investing
Skills
Writing CreditsWriting and Reporting: Wired, Salon, Portfolio.com, The Economist, The Industry Standard, The Financial Times, The Nation, Food & Wine, Sunset, Parenting, San Francisco Classical Voice
Ghostwriting and Editing: Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, The McKinsey Quarterly, The Economist Intelligence Unit, The Financial Times, Fortune.com, BCG Perspectives, Accenture Research, Deloitte Insights, Strategy+Business
Book CreditsGhostwriting and Substantive Editing
Radically Human: How New Technology Is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future (Harvard Business Review Press)
The Corporate Lattice: Achieving High Performance in the New World of Work (Harvard Business Review Press)
The Five Patterns of Extraordinary Careers (Crown Business/Random House)
Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits (Jossey-Bass/Wiley)
Dead Companies Walking: How a Hedge Fund Manager Finds Opportunity in Unexpected Places (Palgrave Macmillan/St. Martin’s Press)
Strategic Alliances: Three Ways to Make Them Work (Harvard Business Review Press)
Love Leadership: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World (Jossey-Bass/Wiley)
Awards, Honors, AppointmentsKnight-Bagehot Fellowship in Business Journalism and Economics, Columbia Journalism School
Wiegers Fellowship, a fully paid competitive scholarship for business journalists to complete an MBA at Columbia Business School
Past President, Alumni Association of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Graduate of the Knight Digital Media Fellowship
As author, unless indicated otherwise.
A review oif Jim Collins’s Good to Great.
ReadAgent Orange killed my father. Did it also kill my sisters? Like a detective, I set out to discover the truth.
A narcissist's bad behavior infects their organizational culture even after they're gone.
Foundations helping nonprofits build their capacity to execute sustained collaborations are catalyzing an important shift on the nonprofit landscape and having an outsized impact on the ground.
The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers: The Guide for Achieving Success and Satisfaction
From the blockchain, to the metaverse, to emotional AI, digital technologies are rapidly advancing at a time when enterprises face more pressure than ever to innovate to gain a competitive advantage. Human behaviors and intelligence are informing the design of new machines, and everything we knew about innovation and strategy is being turned upside down.
The corporate ladder has been the prevailing model for how companies manage their work and their people since the beginning of the industrial revolution a century ago. The ladder represents an inflexible view in which prestige, rewards, access to information, influence, and power are tied to the rung one occupies. The problem is, the authors argue, we no longer live in the industrial age.
An innovative guide to how great nonprofits achieve extraordinary social impact. What makes great nonprofits great? Authors Crutchfield and McLeod Grant searched for the answer over several years, employing a rigorous research methodology which derived from books on for-profits like Built to Last. They studied 12 nonprofits that have achieved extraordinary levels of impactfrom Habitat for Humanity to the Heritage Foundationand distilled six counterintuitive practices that these organizations use to change the world.
