has over 16 years of PR experience in the publishing industry. At Fortier PR, she has worked on books  bestselling business authors like Scott Galloway, Marcus Buckingham,  Amy Webb, Chris Zook, Martin Lindstrom, Scott Belsky, Vijay Govindarajan, the former CEOs of BestBuy, AIG and BP and Joel Peterson, the chairman of JetBlue, and books and research by the Big Three strategy consulting firms.

At Random House for nine years prior to her five years at Fortier PR, she orchestrated New York Times bestselling campaigns for titles including Loving Frank, The Paris Wife and The Passage, among many others and one year at the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau working with authors including Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson (The Warmth of Other Suns). Prior to joining the publishing industry, she helped launch “The Jane Pauley Show” with NBC-TV and worked in crisis communications. Lisa holds a Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt University, where she taught for five years. She earned her B.A. in English and Women’s Studies from Duke University.

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is an award-winning PR professional who has worked at Fortier PR for over ten years on the books of such bestselling authors as Stephen Covey, Martin Lindstrom, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, Harvey Mackay, Chris Brogan, Jerry Colonna, David Meerman Scott, Chester Elton, John Gerzema, John Jantsch, Carmine Gallo, and the CEOs or founders of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, Zappos, Burson-Marsteller, Nasdaq, Razorfish, CEB, Hubspot, LRN, Possible (WPP) and Questus and the CMO of Mastercard as well as professors at Wharton.

In a PR career spanning thirty years, he has guided PR for such corporate clients as British Airways, Visa International, Kennedy Space Center and the Hertz Corporation. Serving as a senior account manager with such firms as GCI Group, Ruder Finn and MMG Worldwide, Norbert led campaigns for American Express and the U.S. Department of Treasury (U.S. Mint). When it was represented by GCI Group’s media relations practice, Norbert supported the Financial Times U.S. brand and built platforms for key FT columnists via broadcast and print/trade interviews, media events and partnerships.

Throughout his career, Norbert has managed public relations accounts ranging from travel, consumer marketing and publishing, to healthcare, government services and economic development.

A graduate of New York University, Norbert has studied journalism, marketing communications and real estate. He has also completed coursework at NYU’s School of Continuing Education and the American Management Association.

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spent almost five years at Penguin Random House working with New York Times bestselling authors such as Karen White, Jen Lancaster, Jenny Lawson and celebrities including Joan Rivers, Jennifer Lopez, Jenny Garth, and more. Her business authors range from the former CEOs of Dunkin’ Donuts and Yum Brands! to Amazon’s senior leaders Colin Bryar and Bill Carr to the cofounder of AI startup Affectiva to bestselling thought leaders like Martin Lindstrom and Ram Charan.

In addition to her publishing experience, she also worked at two of the largest PR agencies in Boston for five years: Racepoint Global and Matter Communications, where she led campaigns for Fortune 500 companies including CVS Pharmacy and HARMAN International. For HARMAN, Jess helped gain exposure for the JBL brand, including at such major events as NBA All-Star, Miami Music Week, and CES.

Her media placements include The Today Show, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Fast Company, CNBC, Fox Business Network, Business Insider, Forbes, Harper’s Bazaar, Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, and Rolling Stone.

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was previously a publicity manager at Simon & Schuster, where she led campaigns for many of the imprint’s lead business, sports, and narrative nonfiction titles, and the associate director of publicity and marketing at Tin House Books. Among the bestselling and noted authors Meg has worked with are Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Howard G. Buffett, Sarah Lewis, Joy Williams, Dominique Ansel, Carla Hall, James Lee Burke, Mark Kriegel, Gary M. Pomerantz, Ruth Wariner,  Philadelphia ’76ers CEO Scott O’Neil, The Grommet co-founder Jules Pieri, MIT neuroscientist Dr. Tara Swart, Stanford d. School’s executive director Sarah Stein Greenberg, and professors at Wharton and INSEAD. She has worked at Fortier PR for over five years.

She managed Fortier’s account for the nonprofit diversity and inclusion think tank, the Center for Talent Innovation (now “Coqual”), founded by economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett and has also worked on books for the Big Three strategy consulting firms.

Major media Meg has booked include The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, Good Morning America, The Daily Show, Late Night With Seth Meyers, Dr. Oz, Rachael Ray, Fresh Air, Science Friday, On Point, and many other National Public Radio shows.

Meg graduated summa cum laude with degrees in English Writing and Women’s Studies from Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN. A Teach For America alumna, she currently volunteers with Girls Write Now, a creative-writing mentoring program for high school girls who are talented emerging authors.

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has worked in public relations for 13 years with experience working at both agencies and publishers on bestselling campaigns. At Fortier PR, she’s worked with authors such as former U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, former Nasdaq CEO, Robert Greifeld, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jay Shetty,  Bravo TV star & #1 real estate influencer Ryan Serhant, Trend Hunter CEO Jeremy Gutsche, Cisco’s Managing Director of Innovation and bestselling author Alex Goryachev, and Fortier’s accounts with Talent Strategy Group, Cognizant and top five strategy consulting firms.

Prior to joining Fortier PR, Elena was a marketing manager and senior publicist at McGraw-Hill where she worked on high profile books such as Steve Forbes’s book Money, the bestseller Real Leadership by John Addison, CEO of Primerica and Always in Fashion by Mark Weber, CEO of Donna Karan. Before McGraw-Hill, Elena was a publicist at Wiley where she worked on books and ran social media for Cliffsnotes.com.

Prior to publishing, Elena represented major national consumer brands at the agency Bender Hammerling Group. She started her public relations career at Annie Jennings PR booking topline radio for authors.

Elena is a graduate of Rutgers University of New Jersey, where she studied Communications, with a minor in sociology and criminology. She was also a Varsity Tennis player with the Scarlet Knights.

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has represented some of the world’s most famous bestselling CEO or Chairman authors including Eric Schmidt (Google), Jim Clifton (Gallup), John Hennessy (Alphabet and Stanford), Howard Marks (Oaktree Capital Management), David Cote (Honeywell) Tom Golisano (Paychex), Jeff Lawson (Twilio) and Johnny C. Taylor (SHRM) and leaders like Henry Kissinger.  One of her many coups was spearheading the campaign for the long-running recent New York Times bestseller ​Radical Candor  by former Apple and Google executive Kim Scott. She has also worked on books by leading journalists including former Fortune  and Harvard Business Review editor Tom Stewart and former Businessweek editor Patricia O’Connell and she manages Fortier PR’s account with Gallup to publicize all their books.

Prior to her almost five years at Fortier PR, she was the publicity manager at Wiley working with bestselling authors such as Hank Greenberg, Jon Gordon, Jeffrey Hirsch, Brian Solis, Ann Handley, Pat Lencioni and others. She also acted as the publicity lead for proposals across all of Wiley’s product lines and a consultant to the corporate commutations team. During her 6 years at Wiley, she worked to reorganize the department to better serve an evolving publishing program. Prior to joining Wiley, she worked with Manhattan and New Jersey-based public relation firms where she led on an array of public relations campaigns for consumer brands.

She is a cum laude graduate of Ramapo College of New Jersey, where she studied Communications, with a focus on Public Relations and Journalism, with a minor in Political Science.

Her media placements include The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Fast Company, Forbes, CNBC, Fox Business Network, CNN, MSNBC and more.

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has 13 years of experience in book publicity at several publishers including Basic Books, and most recently, HarperCollins. The books he has worked on include business, science, politics, and narrative nonfiction.

A graduate of Georgetown University, his media campaigns have featured placements in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Vogue, The Advocate, Oprah Daily, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, PBS Newshour, and NPR programs such as Fresh Air, On Point, Morning Edition, and many other local & regional shows.

Nick has worked with authors including Pulitzer Prize winner N. Scott Momaday, podcaster and entrepreneur James Altucher, bestselling author & workplace expert Lindsey Pollak, bestselling business authors Chester Elton and Adrian Gostick, journalists Kim Wehle (CBS) and Laura Wides-Munoz (LA Times), food historian & James Beard Award winner Michael Twitty, comedian Josh Gondelman, Rush frontman Geddy Lee, impact investment experts Michael O’Leary and Warren Valdmanis, the former CEOs of Texas Roadhouse and Sonic restaurant companies and Tom Alberg, investor and founder of Madrona Venture Group.

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is the founder and president of Fortier Public Relations, LLC. His 30-years of publicizing hundreds of successful books earned him the​ ​2019 Porchlight Jack Covert Award for Contribution to the Business Book Industry​. He is the sixth recipient (and only publicist) following previous winners like Tom Peters and Seth Godin.

Before founding Fortier Public Relations, LLC in January 2007, Mark worked at book publicity firm Goldberg McDuffie Communications for almost nine years, rising from assistant director of publicity to director of publicity to vice president to partner (the first and only employee there to earn this title). There he worked with literary authors including Philip Roth and Henry Louis Gates, public officials like Robert Rubin, the CEOs of Citigroup and AT&T and organizations ranging from The Library of America to the National Endowment for the Arts. Books he worked on ranged from the global bestseller The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho to the Hamilton biography by Ron Chernow, which was adapted for the surprise Broadway hit musical. The first two business books he worked on are now classics: The Innovator’s Solution by Clayton Christensen and Blue Ocean Strategy , which has now sold over four million copies.

His media placements include NPR Fresh Air & Morning Edition, Today, Good Morning America, CBS, Daily Show with Trevor Noah, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the covers of Time, Newsweek, Fortune and The New York Times Book Review , the Tim Ferriss podcast, the oped page and Saturday Essay of The Wall Street Journal and the front page of The New York Times.

He is far more proud of the accomplishments of his growing team at Fortier PR, where he enjoys applying the management lessons he’s learned from the best leaders and business school professors who are our clients.

Previously Mark held positions at Penguin U.S.A. and Columbia University Press.

Mark is a graduate of Wesleyan University, and has studied at New York University and the University of London. His work has been recognized by Newsday, The New York Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Publishers Weekly, Book Publishing Report, and PRWeek. He has written about book publicity for numerous trade publications, and has lectured on book publicity at the Public Relations Society of America national convention, the Association of American University Presses, the New York Advertising and Communications Network and Thinkers50. An interview with Mark is included as a chapter in several books including Publicize Your Book, What No One Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting and How to Write a Business Book That Matters.

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Allyssa Fortunato has a decade of PR experience in the publishing industry. She previously worked at HarperCollins and Penguin Random House publicizing health, wellness, business, parenting, and lifestyle titles.

For 2021 she has already had five bestsellers: The Art of Impossible by Steven Kotler, The Unspoken Rules by Harvard career advisor Gorick Ng, Winning by Michael Jordan’s trainer Tim S. Grover, Liquids Til Lunch by MaryRuth Giyham, and Intuitive Fasting by Dr. Will Cole. Her previous New York Times bestsellers include The XX Brain by Dr. Lisa Mosconi and Mastering Diabetes by Dr. Cyrus Khambatta and Robby Barbaro.

She has worked on books with authors such as former New York Times editor KJ Dell’Antonia, Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association Dr. Bruce Greyson, President of the American Psychological Association Dr. Steven C. Hayes, former StubHub president, Sukhinder Cassidy, leaders of the FIRE movement Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung, veteran NPR reporter Hillary Frank, entrepreneur Kim Perrell, and more.

Authors praise Allyssa’s commitment and enthusiasm, which has resulted in bookings for The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS Sunday Morning, NPR’s Fresh Air, and the TED Radio Hour. She regularly obtains feature coverage in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, TIME, WIRED, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Vogue, The Cut, and goop. She has also booked high profile interviews on leading podcasts such as Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Making Sense with Sam Harris, School of Greatness, Rise Together, WTF with Marc Maron and The Art of Charm.

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previously spent several years at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, where she worked with notable authors in the fields of science, technology, travel, history, and the environment.

Her most recent bestsellers are Finding the Mother Tree by ecologist Suzanne Simard and Under the Wave at Waimea by legendary bestselling travel writer Paul Theroux.  Among her clients are Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann, founder of the Center for the Study of the Drone Arthur Holland Michel, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and LA Times business columnist Michael Hiltzik (Iron Empires), historian and Stanford Professor Gordon H. Chang (Ghosts of Gold Mountain), social historian and film/TV consultant Hallie Rubenhold (The Five), conservationist Bryce Andrews (Down From the Mountain), botany writer Ruth Kassinger, University of Chicago Psychology Professor Katherine Kinzler (How You Say It), actress Rachel True (True Heart Intuitive Tarot), Bolster founder Matt Blumberg, scientist Henry Gee and Deloitte’s Chief Experience Officer Amelia Dunlop.

Maria was previously a bookseller and is passionate about connecting books and people. She has secured reviews, profiles, and interviews with top media including: CBS Sunday Morning and 60 Minutes, NPR’s All Things Considered, On Point, Here and Now, and Science Friday,  PRI’s Living on Earth and Fox News Channel.  She’s also placed author essays and feature coverage in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Atlantic, Wired, Scientific American, Fast Company, Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, among many other publications.

She has a BA in Media Studies and a BA in English Creative Writing from Auburn University, and an MA in Publishing & Writing from Emerson College in Boston.

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is Fortier PR’s events manager, who books our clients into prestigious speaking events around the world. He has also managed the publicity campaigns for such bestsellers as Ram Charan’s 2019 #1 Wall Street Journal  bestseller The Amazon Management System and Fearless Innovation by Alex Goryachev. His placements include The Today Show, The Economist, Business Insider, Forbes, Industry Week and more.

He previously held positions at WeWork and Primary where he spearheaded events and booked speakers for their locations. He has run PR campaigns for startups, international organizations, and musicians at such agencies as Breakaway Communications, BWK and Effective Immediately. He has run PR campaigns for startups, international organizations, and musicians at such agencies as Breakaway Communications, BWK and Effective Immediately. He regularly listens to podcasts such as How I Built This, Freakonomics, and The Daily, and is an avid reader of books including most recently, Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss. He holds a B.A. in political science and international relations at Ohio State University where he was secretary for the Collegiate Council for World Affairs.

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is a full-time podcast publicist for Fortier Public Relations. In coordination with our team, she leads the firm’s podcast program, which has booked some of the world’s top ranked podcasts including The Joe Rogan Experience, The Tim Ferriss Show, Tony Robbins, Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert, School of Greatness with Lewis Howes, Bulletproof, Gary Vee, Freakonomics, Recode Decode, James Altucher Show, a16z, HBR Ideacast, Art of Charm, Guy Raz and more.

Her career has always combined her passion for both books and publicity.  A graduate of North Carolina State University, O’Licia first learned publicity and marketing at a leading North Carolina communications agency and next at Greenleaf Book Group, a publisher of over 45 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers.

O’Licia has helped business thought leaders land placements in Reader’s Digest, Psychology and Buzzfeed. O’Licia enjoys helping authors connect with the right audiences to share fresh ideas that inspire growth and change. Her deep knowledge of the robust podcast landscape and innate knack for connecting with podcasters has led to her bookings in such categories as for business, finance, tech, health, parenting, and female empowerment authors.  Outside of work, O’Licia enjoys adding nonfiction books to her library, thrift shopping, and exploring new places.

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has over 20 years’ experience in book publicity and marketing. Formerly an executive publicist and communications manager at the MIT Press and associate director of publicity at Princeton University Press, she has worked with many of the world’s leading thinkers, scientists, leaders and economists, including Cass Sunstein, Lawrence H. Summers, Vaclav Smil, William G. Bowen, Tom Davenport, Yossi Sheffi, Lee McIntyre, Patricia Churchland, Meredith Broussard, Kat Holmes, Viktor Mayer-Schonberg, Andrew Gelman, Philip Tetlock, John Sides, Lynn Vavreck, Olivier Blanchard, Bryan Caplan, Henry Farrell, and Abraham Newman.

She has extensive experience launching creative conversation-starting campaigns as with Eric Cline’s 1177, Andrei Codrescu’s Post-Human Dada Guide, Christof Koch’s The Feeling of Life Itself, Adrienne Mayor’s The Amazons, Ai Weiwei’s Weiwei-isms, Bee Wilson’s Swindled, Leah Plunkett’s Sharenthood, Karine Jean-Pierre’s Moving Forward, Maria Eriksson et al’s Spotify Teardown, and the New York Times best-seller Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game.

Her bookings include interviews with CBS Sunday Morning, PBS Newshour, Marketplace, BBC, MSNBC, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, Recode Decode,  and numerous NPR programs including Morning Edition and On Point and more. She has placed articles and reviews with the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Quartz, Fast Company, Business Insider, Rolling Stone, National Geographic, Time, Newsweek, and more.

Her latest clients include Deanna Mulligan CEO of Guardian, Lloyd Minor, dean of the Stanford School of Medicine, Rob Chesnut, chief ethics officer and corporate counsel for Airbnb, MIT professor Sinan Aral, who co-leads MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy, and data scientist Howard Steven Friedman. She leads Fortier Public Relations’ outreach for the Queen Elizabeth Prize, which is awarded at Buckingham Palace every other year.

Her professional experience also includes posts as marketing and sales director at Georgetown University Press and associate director of marketing and sales at Rutgers University Press. She has a B.A. in English from Rutgers University.

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has spent over a decade representing such authors as economists Jeffrey Sachs, Dambisa Moyo and Henry Kaufman, CEO authors like Paul Polmon (Unilever), mega-bestselling author, Yuval Noah Harari; The New Yorker staff writer and NYT  bestselling author, Sheelah Kolhatkar; Silicon Valley VC and serial entrepreneur, Elad Gil; NYU Stern School Dean Emeritus Peter Blair Henry,  and author of the million-copy bestseller Essentialism, Greg McKeown for his New York Times bestseller Effortless.  As Vice President & Director at Finn Partners for three years prior to joining Fortier PR, he spearheaded campaigns for several national bestseller campaigns and worked with authors such as Techstars CEO, Maelle Gavet, Facebook “Like” button co-creator, Justin Rosenstein; former Bloomberg BusinessWeek China Bureau Chief, Dexter Tiff Roberts; leading Modern Monetary Theory economist, Pavlina R. Tcherneva; and the well-known journalist and political commentator, Tony Schwartz.

For six years at DEY. prior to joining Finn Partners, Paul publicized authors and advised several leading companies and institutions, including the United Nations, The Earth Institute, Sustainable Development Goals USA, The Rockefeller Foundation, and ReD Associates.

Paul regularly works with and places clients in top media outlets such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and WSJ Weekend Review, The Financial Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, The Guardian, WIRED, MIT Technology Review, Harvard Business Review, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, PBS NewsHour, APM: Marketplace and NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Planet Money.

His interests include economics, business, public policy, international affairs, and technology.

He has a BA in English from Purdue University, where he served as the inaugural editor of JPUR, the university’s peer-reviewed undergraduate research journal published annually by Purdue University Press. Outside of Fortier PR, he’s an avid reader, writer, and commentator on macroeconomics, and co-hosted a podcast. He resides in Brooklyn, NY.

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