Lisa Ekus Email & Phone Number

Founder, owner, and president of The Ekus Group, LLC, a full-service culinary agency specializing in “promoting a world of culinary talent” based out of Hatfield, Massachusetts. Located in a 200-plus-year-old renovated farmhouse, this woman-owned small business has almost three decades of experience representing a diversified selection of cookbooks, restaurants, food personalities and writers, and food products to the media. In 2000, Lisa began offering personalized literary services to veteran authors and new writers alike. Her agency now represents more than 80 authors and numerous leading publishers worldwide. Lisa is also an experienced media trainer and holds regular seminars in her professional kitchen. The training — which was featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered” helps culinary professionals improve their media presentation and interviewing skills. Her “Honing Your Edge: Cutting Edge Media Skills For Culinary Professionals” with culinary producer and associate Virginia Willis, brings the media training program on the road to corporations and culinary organizations. Lisa is deeply committed to volunteerism and donates her time to a number of nonprofit organizations in the hunger, health, and humanitarian arenas. She sees food as the common denominator that brings family and friends together and sits down for dinner as often as possible with her family, friends and clients. Last, but not least, she also is the proud owner of more than 6,000 cookbooks and mother to three grown children.Specialties: culinary media training, literary agent, culinary talent agent, career consultation, cookbook PR

Listed skills include Public Relations, Publicity, Publishing, Editing, and 35 others.

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  Founding Partner

  The Ekus Group

  Hatfield, Ma, Us