Publishing and digital content professional with additional experience in sales and business development; retail operations; and change management.
Lives in Toronto. Tests high on strategic thinking, emotional intelligence, and organization. Likes jazz.
The Elements of Work is a Medium collection of writings about professionalism and productivity, with a special emphasis on change and communication.
Launched in 2012, Hazlitt is Penguin Random House Canada's flagship online publication. It has won 7 National Magazine Awards, publishes commentary, comics, podcasts, and essays; and has published writers and illustrators including Navneet Alang, Michael Deforge, Sophia Foster-Dimino, Sarah Gerard, Kathleen Hale, Jeet Heer, Nicholas Hune-Brown, Rawiya Kameir, Scaachi Koul, Zachary Lopez, Anupa Mistry, Haley Mlotek, Sarah Nicole Prickett, and Sarah Weinman.
I contributed to Bloomsbury's textbook for aspiring music critics and journalists, How to Write About Music.
Portishead's Dummy is a book in Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series of short monographs on classic albums. The book was named by Slate as one of the best 10 books in the series — "Worth reading even if you don’t care about the music".
The New Publishing Skillset: Change Management in a Creative Industry was a talk delivered on March 6, 2014 in Toronto at BookNet Canada's TechForum conference.
Future-Proofing Publishing: Lightweight Technologies Publishers Should Be Watching Right Now was a talk delivered in Toronto on March 7, 2013, at BookNet Canada's TechForum conference.
This piece about Memphis Slim's 1951 side "No Mail Blues" appeared in the 11th annual Southern music edition of The Oxford American.
I'm currently Chief Operating Officer at Penguin Random House Canada