I work with entrepreneurs to help them craft content for columns, blog posts, white papers, books, and just about anything else that involves storytelling. Speaking clients include Inc. Magazine’s GrowCo, Leadership, and Inc 500 conferences, The Massachusetts Conference on Women, Dell, Visa Canada, State Farm, YPulse, NAWBO, The Wisconsin Technology Council, Sieman’s, The New York Times Small Business Summit, Regions Bank, Prudential, Babson College, George Washington University, The University of Wisconsin, Consulting clients include Amway and VeriSign, among others. I also leverage 30 + years as a journalist covering entrepreneurship and small business to: -- Teach small business owners how to be more strategic in order to grow revenue, increase market share, and create more impactful corporate cultures. I do this through keynote presentations, panel discussions, and interactive workshops.-- Enlighten large corporations that serve the small business market on the needs and perspectives of entrepreneurs so that they can make better marketing and resource allocation decisions.-- Provide insight into the youth market to companies trying to market to this very large, quirky, influential, and increasingly affluent market.-- Inspire and educate young entrepreneurs by sharing the wisdom and success stories of their highly successful peers.-- Provide large corporations with market intelligence on how entrepreneurial companies increasingly use the web and social media for research, marketing, branding.

Work with editorial and marketing teams to develop new products, and to create content for major media brands.

Contributed feature articles and columns on entrepreneurial companies. Senior editor for 30 Under 30: America's Coolest Young Entrepreneurs for eight years.I started working at Inc. in 1983 as a researcher/reporter and had many roles at the magazine since then, including Management columnist for the Hands-On section; editor of a custom newsletter for Merrill Lynch; feature writer; speaker and panel moderator at Inc.'s conferences and marketing events.

I wrote a column on startup entrepreneurs, chronicling their entrepreneurial journeys, challenges, and successes.

Posted three times/week on small business trends, tips, and strategies. Created "Start-up Tip of the Week."

Wrote two columns a month on young entrepreneurs and their success strategies.

Published Upstarts! How GenY Entrepreneurs Are Rocking the World of Business and 8 Ways You Can Profit From Their Success in Sept. 2009.

Published Alpha Dogs: How Your Small Business Can Become a Leader of the Pack in October 2005

Covered politics, the economy, social issues and The Gulf War.