This is where I introduce myself and make the case for why, once you’ve read this, you’re not sorry you did.

I have written or co-written / ghost-written / collaborated on more than two dozen books, on a far-reaching array of subjects. I’ve worked with CEOs and surgeons, winners of Super Bowls and Emmy Awards, startup founders and three-star generals, performance coaches and philosophers, innovators and traditionalists, people facing death or triumphing over it* (*pending), people we can learn from and who have learned about themselves, remarkable people with big brains and big hearts. My very first such collaboration, Chasing Daylight, was a New York Times bestseller, named a "Best Business Book of the Year" by Financial Times, and included in The 100 Best Business Books of All Time (Portfolio). I was recruited to update the grand-daddy of all self-help books (How to Win Friends and Influence People). I have worked successfully and harmoniously with many major publishing houses, editors, agents – and, most importantly, authors of their stories. I have and can work with all kinds of people. Many of them I now consider friends.

My non-book writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, New York, Diversion, Parenting, and the NYU Alumni Magazine, among others. (My 5 favorite magazines to read, ever: MAD, Spy, Sports Illustrated, Esquire and The New Yorker.) For four years I was a columnist for Glamour (one of their most popular columns) and then for Mademoiselle. My work has also appeared in numerous digital platforms, across a similarly wide range of subjects. I have helped write TED speeches and consulted on AI projects (though ChatGPT has no place at all on this website or in my written work).