Richard Nash, Cpcc, Pcc Email & Phone Number

Greater Boston, Massachusetts, Us

I'm working with leaders on the cusp on breaking out, growing both their internal influence within their company, and expanding their leadership capabilities in thought and action across their industry and, indeed, our society.

Brooklyn, Ny, Us

Cursor is a consultancy offering coaching, strategic advice and publicity and marketing services to individuals and businesses particularly in media, publishing, and education, with a particular focus on how to respond to technology-mediated changes in business models. Richard is a certified Coach and works with executives, entrepreneurs and creatives to navigate the shifting terrain of professional growth and development, with a particular focus on Thought Leadership Coaching.Our Cursor Marketing Services division, led by Emily Cook, provides virtual publishing office capacity to SME's in book publishing. Clients include Melbourne and London-based Scribe Publications, Toronto-based Coach House Books, and Vancouver-based Greystone Books. We provide market intelligence, go-to-market strategy, and a comprehensive suite of marketing and publicity services, drawing on our unparalleled network in retail and media, and our keen awareness of the role of influencer networks in the marketplaces of idea and story.Cursor itself began as a community publishing platform developed to offer traditional print publishers the capacity to better engage readers and writers and to offer web content producers the means to monetize their attention with print products. • Raised a small friends and family round, • Recruited a technical co-founder to build a prototype, • Created a new publishing enterprise, Red Lemonade, to be the pilot for the platform. The project had a significant industry-wide impact influencing contracts and licenses, content acquisition processes, direct-to-consumer marketing, and the shift of the industry from a product-based one to a service-based one.

Aliso Viejo, California, Us

Sounding Board is a unified Coaching Enablement Platform and managed coach network that scales, manages and measures complex leadership development programs across the enterprise.www.soundingboardinc.com

New York, New York, Us

Advising start-ups in media, culture and technology around product-market fit, partnership strategies, fundraising, hiring. Companies include BitLit, Bibblio, Beneath the Ink, InkShares, Riffle, Evoke.io, CodeMeetPrint, Enthrill, MaestroMarket, ReadSenses, and The New Inquiry.

We conceived a content strategy for this innovative digital health start-up focused on educating patients with cancer and connecting them to clinical trials. The "Gene Stories" project is designed to drive user acquisition, user onboarding, and user retention by using the power of information and narrative to bridge the enormous gaps between patients and the systems for treating them. I recruited and managed dozens of prominent writers to write "biographical" profiles of genes, and recruited and oversaw a small team of editors and an Art Director and team of illustrators.

Thalgau, Salzburg, At

I worked with Sony DADC, the entertainment industry logistics and services arm of Sony Corp, to plan and execute their entry into the book publishing industry. We focused on their strong background in Digital Rights Management software (DRM) to create and deploy Sony URMS, based on Marlin technology. A lightweight but extremely powerful SaaS service, we identified the library, professional, and educational marketplaces as the key targets and I built a go-to-market strategy engaging with publishers, industry bodies, retailers, wholesalers, distributors, agents, back-end technology service providers, libraries, and app developers to build from scratch an entire ecosystem supporting this new initiative.

Seabstopol, Ca, Us

Advising on partnerships and strategy for information services and employee learning company

Seattle, Wa, Us

Helped create and recruit for the Dream Team product.

Acquired by Vook in Sept 2014Hailed by Fast Company as "One of the 10 Most Innovative Media Companies in the World," Byliner is bringing deeper, richer reading to your mobile device. Our reading service is available on app or website, via subscription; it includes the world’s leading fiction and narrative nonfiction writers; and our browsing experience of structured serendipity allow you to flow from one story to the next. Our authors include Jon Krakauer, Nick Hornby, Margaret Atwood, Amy Tan, Lawrence Lessig, Hilton Als, Edwidge Danticat, Ann Patchett, Buzz Bissinger, Richard Russo, Chuck Pahlaniuk, and our publishing partners include the world’s leading commercial and independent book, magazine, and web publishers. I lead these partnership efforts.

Acquired by Trajectory in early 2014.Small Demons is a technology start-up in the media space that uses data-mining to connect rich cultural detail within books to people, places, brands, songs, films etc. I was part of the five member executive committee, responsible for partnerships, marketing, media relations, and in concert with the CEO, business strategy. I represented the company at conferences around the world both directing pitching the company's product and indirectly as a thought leader.• Signed partnership agreements with corporations representing the majority of global English language publishing, including Random House, Penguin, HarperCollins, and Hachette, in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia.• Commenced and/or participated in executive-level discussions around partnerships with global leaders in music, film, consumer electronics and e-commerce.• Secured earned media across global English-language media from CNN to the New York Times to the Guardian to the Associated Press, as well as in the leading media organs in Italy (Corriera della Serra), Spain (El Pais), Brazil (O Globo) and others from Estonia to Indonesia.• Gave keynotes and spoke on or moderated panels at numerous industry, cultural, and academic forums.

· Jointly led management team to create new publisher from three acquired units, one of which was my previous company, Soft Skull Press· In connection with the sale of Soft Skull Press (SSP) and a change in ownership of Counterpoint Press, successfully retained all SSP authors and all Counterpoint authors I was charged with retaining.· Increased SSP backlist revenue 70% amidst significant secular decline in backlist revenues across the industry through relentless audience-focused marketing and earned media.· Manage relationships with distributors' sales organizations in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Australia.· Managed all licensing deals for the combined organization· Acquired content for SSP and Counterpoint imprints, sourcing domestically and internationally, from agents and direct from authors.· Oversee print production managers; freelance editorial, design, and production; and in-house editorial, design, and production for SSP · Lead and frequently execute publicity plans for all SSP titles and several Counterpoint titles.· Represent the combined enterprise to the industry and media through panel discussions, presentations, articles, and quotations for articles.

· Transformed marginal independent press into one of the most well-respected independent publishers in North America.· Implemented cost controls and engineered revenue growth, raising operating margins from -40% to +10%.· Quadrupled backlist revenue.· Concluded 40+ licensing deals with European, Asian and South American publishers.· Acquired and edited titles that achieved the following distinctions:TODAY SHOW Book Club selection; Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Singapore Straits-Times, Booksense National Bestsellers; Two PEN Award finalists, a Quill Award Finalist; Seven Village Voice Best of the Year selections, and Best of the Year selections from numerous other publications, including the Los Angeles Times, New Statesman, Christian Science Monitor, Toronto Globe & Mail and The Guardian· Managed a significant crisis following the bankruptcy of distributor's parent corporation in December 2006 and secured acquisition by Counterpoint.

· Managed the U.S. sales operation of start-up electronic publishing software and service provider. · Developed targets, identified potential customers, performed sales calls, negotiated terms.

· Founded a theatre company aimed at discovering stories and meaning within found cultural material including art, philosophy, fiction, and architecture.· Recruited and led a team of designers, technicians, writers and actors to create eight different major theatrical works over five years. · Raised operating funds and recruited a board· Managed marketing and media relations

· Co-Founder of the Ice Factory Festival, a summer performing arts festival that incubated emerging performance talent in theatre, dance, and music.· Identified local and national emerging voices, soliciting a diverse range of styles and background, and making final selections· Co-ordinated highly complex logistics around multiple teams of designers, technicians, and producers· Coached participating performers and companies on local media outreach

Assist MacArthur Fellow playwright/director Richard Foreman on all aesthetic and logistical issues.

· Advanced and synthesized financial, scheduling, staging and content factors to ensure successful program execution; assisted cross-sector communication, initiating dialogue and bridging agendas and timelines of in-house staff, diverse presenters and external contractors.

Cpcc, Coaching

A.B. 1993 (Hons), Government; Focus On Game Theory And Comparative Government

Political Science; Cultural Studies, Theater, German