As New Business Director, Ian manages our new business pipeline and draws upon nearly a decade of experience in public relations, media, and marketing.

Previously he was a Senior Account Executive at 5W, one of the largest independently-owned PR firms in the world, where he secured coverage for clients in CNBC, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Bloomberg, Fox Business, and Business Insider.

His PR agency career began at Bevel PR, leading influencer marketing efforts and media relations for venture-backed technology companies in industries. There, Ian secured coverage in top-tier publications including The New York Times, Fortune, and Travel + Leisure. His efforts landed clients on prestigious lists like Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, Forbes 30 Under 30, and CB Insights Fintech250.

Before PR, Ian worked at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and the Shorty Awards in production. At the Shortys, Ian created content for the show, booked talent, sold sponsorships, and even produced a song with Fetty Wap that has over 2M streams on Spotify!

Ian holds an MBA from UNC Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and a B.A. from Hamilton College, where he studied Creative Writing, English Literature and Theater.

Clients and agents describe their experience working with Ashtin as “an absolute joy” and “a shining example of collaboration, skill, and relationships.” She has enjoyed working with New York Times bestselling authors such as Susan Cain​, AJ Jacobs, Peter Singer, Max Lugavere, Shane Parrish, and more. The rich diversity of her interests is reflected in the wide variety of authors she has promoted ranging from actor Josh Peck to ​award-winning psychologists Ethan Kross and Becca Levy to Harvard Medical School Professor Robert Waldinger, MD, to world-record-breaking explorer Colin O’Brady, to MacArthur “Genius” grant recipient MT Connolly.

She has confirmed coverage in outlets such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, AARP, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Vox, Oprah Daily, and TIME Magazine; booked her clients on top podcasts and radio shows like Armchair Expert, The Tim Ferriss Show, Making Sense with Sam Harris, Ten Percent Happier, Diary of a CEO, The Daily Stoic, The Rich Roll Podcast, NPR’s 1A, KERA’s Think, WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show, and KCRW’s Life Examined; and worked with daytime TV shows including The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Tamron Hall Show, and The Drew Barrymore Show.

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Lisa is Managing Director at Fortier PR and has over 17 years of PR experience in the publishing industry. She has worked on books by bestselling business authors like Scott Galloway, Marcus Buckingham, Amy Webb, Chris Zook, Martin Lindstrom, Scott Belsky, Vijay Govindarajan, the former CEOs of Best Buy, AIG and BP, former JetBlue Chairman Joel Peterson, and books and research by the Big Three strategy consulting firms.

At Random House for nine years prior to her six 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. She spent 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

Clients have called Norbert an  “amazing” “magician“ for his “support, insight, connections and skills,“ as well as his “energy, enthusiasm, and tenacity.“ An award-winning PR professional, Norbert has worked at Fortier PR for 15 years. In 2022 Norbert‘s biggest bestseller, The Power of One More by Ed Mylett, hit the Wall Street Journal bestseller list at #1 and stayed on for 17 weeks.  His other major authors include Stephen Covey, Martin Lindstrom, Carmine Gallo, Harvey Mackay, Chris Brogan, Jerry Colonna, David Meerman Scott, Chester Elton, John Gerzema, John Jantsch, and the CEOs or founders of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, Nasdaq, Zappos, Burson-Marsteller, Razorfish, CEB, Hubspot, LRN, Possible (WPP) and Questus, the CMO of Mastercard, the president of Hearst Magazines, as well as university professors at Harvard, Wharton, Stanford, Columbia, and Cornell.

Norbert has secured interviews and features with Good Morning America (ABC), The Today Show (NBC), CBS Mornings, FOX Business, Bloomberg, MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, Fast Company, Inc., Wired, Esquire, Oprah Daily, Men’s Health and Psychology Today, among other top outlets.  His recent podcast placements have included School of Greatness (Lewis Howes), Trading Secrets (Jason Tartick), On Purpose (Jay Shetty), The James Altucher Show, and Goal Digger Podcast, to name a few.

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Clients have called Adam “a grounding force for our team” who “taught us so much about what it takes to bring a book into the world” and whose “passion for the book genuinely shines through in every conversation we have.” Adam has worked in public relations and communications for over a decade across both agency and in-house teams, securing coverage in national business and consumer media including Good Morning America, CBS Mornings, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CNBC, Fox, Bloomberg, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Business Insider, INC, Fast Company, Fortune, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, GQ, Rolling Stone Magazine, Esquire, Oprah Daily, Men’s Journal, Men’s Health and more.

In 2024, Adam had four consecutive instant National Bestsellers, including the memoir Bare Knuckle by Stayton Bonner (now being adapted for a major Hollywood film), Pattern Breakers by legendary Silicon Valley Angel Investor Mike Maples Jr., and Dynamic Drive by pioneering sports agent Molly Fletcher, known widely as “The Female Jerry Maguire”. After Adam secured national TV, radio, podcast and online features, Dynamic Drive  debuted at #2 and #4 on the LA Times and USA Today bestseller lists, respectively, beating out titles from Nancy Pelosi, David Grann and Erik Larsen.

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Julianna is the publicity and events assistant at Fortier Public Relations. In this role, she leads Fortier’s events booking program, which has arranged events for World Business Forum, Aspen Ideas, SXSW, Fortune Brainstorm, SHRM, Milken Global Conference NASDAQ, FT, Google, PayPal, and more.

Julianna also books podcasts for the firm’s podcast program, which has landed interviews with The Joe Rogan Experience, The Tim Ferriss Show, Something You Should Know, Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert, NPR’s Hidden Brain, School of Greatness, Huberman Lab, Masters of Scale, and countless others. 

Julianna graduated Summa Cum Laude from Susquehanna University with a bachelor’s degree in advertising and public relations. As the Vice President of Public Relations for her Greek Life organization, she ran her organization’s social medias, planned campus-wide events, and oversaw several leadership positions. In her free time, Julianna loves to browse the Spotify podcast selection, go to the beach, and spend quality time with her friends and family.

Keely is a publicity assistant at Fortier Public Relations. Before moving to New York City, she was a reporter for ReportforAmerica.org, where she reported on local and regional environmental justice stories. Her writing has appeared in more than 70 publications across the country. While studying journalism at The University of Alabama, Keely was the editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Crimson White. As a student, she also worked as a research assistant for Built From the Fire, a nonfiction book that was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2023.

Mallory’s clients have praised her for “exceeding our expectations and setting a new bar.” She has over a decade of experience in book publicity and media relations. Prior to joining Fortier, she was the Senior Publicity Manager at Smith Publicity. With roots in broadcast journalism, Mallory began her career as a TV news producer at NBC and Fox affiliates in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. She has garnered publicity for Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestsellers, for legendary authors like Charlie Munger and Ram Charan, for corporate clients ranging from Stripe to McKinsey and for CEOs and for executives at such as JP Morgan, Intel, IBM, Google and Microsoft, among others. Her media placements include The Wall Street Journal, NPR’s Marketplace, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, NBC’s TODAY Show, LIVE with Kelly and Ryan, HuffPost, CNN, PBS NewsHour, CNBC, Bloomberg, The Economist, Time Magazine, Fast Company, and top podcasts including The Tim Ferriss Show, Armchair Expert, Huberman Lab, Dhru Purohit, and MindBodyGreen. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Broadcast Journalism from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Meg is Director of Operations at Fortier PR and has been with the company since 2016. She 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, Liz Wiseman, 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. 

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Clients have praised Camille‘s ‘can do’ spirit and organizational expertise. She previously worked at KikiNetwork, a public relations agency for business schools, business authors and startups. Her passion for entrepreneurship led her to work on books by serial entrepreneurs from Gino Wickman to Josh Tolley, but she has also worked on books for such large global organizations as Brunswick and Russell Reynolds Associates. Her first Wall Street Journal bestseller was  Decision Sprint by Atif Rafiq.

Her experience also includes planning and promoting global conferences such as the MaKi Network Business Media Conference for business school communications leaders to network and meet leading business media contacts she has introduced them to at such publications as the Financial Times, Times Higher Education and El Pais.

Camille graduated from Furman University in South Carolina where she majored in Business Administration with a focus on Marketing. She owes her logistics and problem-solving skills to a previous professional background in event coordination and management. She recently ran her first half marathon and has volunteered as a Member and President of the Planning Committee for Relay for Life, the annual fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. She grew up in a small town in New Hampshire and now lives in New York City.

Clients have been “blown away” by Elena who they’ve called “incredible,” “fantastic” and “stunning all around” and a “pleasure and a privilege to work with.” She has worked in public relations for 16 years with experience working at both agencies and publishers on bestselling campaigns. At Fortier PR, she’s worked with authors such as former AT&T CEO Anne Chow, former Medtronic CEO Bill George, 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, entrepreneur Jason Tartick, Trend Hunter CEO Jeremy Gutsche, Cisco’s Managing Director of Innovation and bestselling author Alex Goryachev, Delivering Happiness CEO Jenn Lim, Deloitte Chair of the Board Janet Foutty, Simmons University President Lynn Wooten, and on Fortier PR’s accounts with Talent Strategy Group, Cognizant, and top five strategy consulting firms. Her media placements include Good Morning America, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, CNBC TV, FOX, CNN, Bloomberg TV, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Yahoo Finance, People Magazine, New York Post, INC, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Business Insider, and The Ed Mylett Show.

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Jess’s clients have called her “a star” and have complimented her for “exceeding expectations” with “quality top-notch results.” She 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. She has worked on New York Times bestsellers like CEO Excellence, and even #1 New York Times bestsellers. Her business authors range from the former CEOs of Dunkin’ Donuts and Yum! Brands to Jeff Bezos’ former chief of staff Colin Bryar to Kleiner Perkins chairman and venture capitalist John Doerr, to CNBC correspondent Julia Boorstin to entrepreneurs Mikaila Ulmer and Rana el Kaliouby, to New York Times bestselling author thought leaders like Martin Lindstrom, Ram Charan and top three strategy consulting firms.

Her media placements include The Today Show, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, USA Today, Fortune, Associated Press, Marketplace, MSNBC, CNBC, FOX Business Network, Bloomberg, USA Today, Rolling Stone, Fast Company, Business Insider, Forbes, Harper’s Bazaar, Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, and top podcasts includingThe Ed Mylett Show, Success Story with Scott D. Clary, That Sounds Fun with Annie F. Downs, The Blonde Files, and Typology.

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Brooke is the Senior Podcast Publicity Manager at Fortier Public Relations. Her campaigns have been called “impressive,” “amazing,” and “a home run from beginning to end.” She has over 7 years of PR experience and has worked on hundreds of podcast PR campaigns. 

She leads the firm’s podcast program, which built its own proprietary database and has booked some of the world’s top ranked podcasts including The Joe Rogan Experience, The Tim Ferriss Show, Brené Brown, Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert, Tony Robbins, The Ezra Klein Show, NPR’s Hidden Brain, Masters of Scale, Lex Fridman, Making Sense with Sam Harris, School of Greatness with Lewis Howes, Freakonomics, Kara Swisher, Goal Digger, Huberman Lab, The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey, Gary Vee, James Altucher, a16z, HBR Ideacast, The Art of Charm, How I Built This with Guy Raz, Jordan Harbinger, Ed Mylett and hundreds more.

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Nick manages Fortier PR’s 17-year account for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award and has led the campaigns for dozens of books in business, science, politics, narrative nonfiction.  His bestsellers include The Voltage Effect by U. Chicago behavioral economist John List and He/She/They by Schuyler Bailar.

Nick’s clients have called him “committed, responsive and inspiring” and a “generous door-opener with a wide network.” Nick has 15 years of experience in book publicity including several publishers including Basic Books, and most recently, HarperCollins.

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.

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Ann has over 23 years of experience working for major book publishing houses and media companies, including Viking Penguin, St. Martin’s Press, and National Geographic. Most recently, she served as the Publicity Director for Disney. Ann managed publicity for adult and children’s titles at National Geographic, oversaw the magazine and travel PR, Maps, worked with authors, executives, and talent on media training, and supported Corporate Communications including crisis management. Throughout her career, she has developed campaigns, including multi-city tours and events for numerous bestselling and award-winning authors, such as Elizabeth Gilbert, Nathaniel Philbrick, Jan Karon, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Dan Buettner, Winston Groom, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Hulk Hogan, the Kardashians, Jackie Collins, Andrew Morton, Deborah Roberts, Joel Sartore, Buzz Aldrin, and many others.

Ann has booked coverage for her authors with TODAY, Good Morning America, CBS, CNN, Fox, Bill Maher, Morning Joe, Late Show with Stephen Colbert, LIVE With Kelly and Mark, The Kelly Clarkson Show, The Drew Barrymore Show, The View, Daily Show with Trevor Noah, PBS, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, CNN, The Sunday Paper, Joe Rogan, Sam Harris and more.

Ann graduated from Lafayette College with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Spanish. She lives outside Washington, DC with her husband and two boys.

Johanna has a Master’s Degree in Communications with Northwestern University and over a decade of experience in book publicity at agencies and publishers including Macmillan and Hachette before joining Fortier PR.

She has worked with a broad range of clients from New York Times bestselling authors Michael Wolff and Stephanie Kelton, to authors who have shaped the national conversation like Harvard Business School professor Rebecca Henderson, politician Jesse Jackson, Jr, musician Julian Lennon, historian Jennifer Wright, and business journalist Laura Shin. She has also worked on books for the leading strategy consulting firms. This year, she is working with clients ranging from Stripe to former U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.

Johanna has secured placements in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Economist, The Nation, The New Republic, The Guardian, Foreign Affairs, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, CNBC, and Fox as well as interviews with NPR’s “Fresh Air,” “Morning Edition,” “All Things Considered,” “Science Friday,” “1A,” and “Brian Lehrer.”

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Melinda is Fortier PR’s Executive Assistant with over three decades of experience providing support at the highest levels of corporate leadership.  Her passion is to keep things organized and running smoothly. She joined The Home Depot in 1986, where she held roles of increasing responsibility from 1986 to 2021, eventually working with HD Supply’s CEO and Chairman as the director of Administrative services. By coincidence, the cofounder & former CEO of The Home Depot is a Fortier PR client. Melinda is the proud mother of two sons.

Grace is a publicity assistant at Fortier Public Relations. Before joining Fortier, Grace completed a Production internship at Hachette Book Group, working on P&Ls for reprint titles across genres. At PBR Executive Search, Grace researched potential candidates for national searches in the nonprofit sector while developing low-cost screening systems and compiling long-term data with attention to business trends.

Grace graduated from Brown University with honors in English on the Nonfiction Writing track. As a founding member and Society & News Editor of the Black Star Journal, Grace advised on issues of administration and ethics while working closely with writers to produce high-quality pieces.

Mark 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 first 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.

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Deemed “an author’s secret weapon,” “the absolute best person I have ever, ever, ever worked with in any form” who is “equal parts brilliant, savvy, creative, and kind,” Allyssa has over 13 years of experience in the publishing industry. She previously worked at HarperCollins and Penguin Random House publicizing health, wellness, lifestyle, and business titles.

Allyssa has publicized New York Times bestselling authors like Susan Cain, Dr. Robert Waldinger, Dr. James Doty, Dr. Lisa Mosconi, Steven Kotler, Dr. Mike Massimino, Ray Kurzweil, and more.

Authors praise Allyssa’s commitment, enthusiasm, and ingenuity, which results in regular bookings for Good Morning America, The Today Show, ​CBS Sunday Morning, PBS’ Brief but Spectacular, Morning Joe, GMA3, LIVE with Kelly and Mark, The Daily Show, The Tamron Hall Show, ​The Drew Barrymore Show, NPR’s Fresh Air, NPR’s All Things Considered, NPR’s Science Friday, the TED Radio Hour, and more. She regularly obtains feature coverage in outlets such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and People Magazine. She continuously confirms high-profile interviews on many leading podcasts including The Joe Rogan Experience, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, On Purpose with Jay Shetty, Making Sense with Sam Harris, The School of Greatness with Lewis Howes, Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris, Diary of a CEO, WTF with Marc Maron, NPR’s Life Kit, and NPR’s Hidden Brain.

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Carah is a publicity assistant at Fortier Public Relations. Before joining Fortier, she worked as an intern at Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency where she evaluated manuscripts and drafted press releases to communicate with international co-agents and scouts. Additionally, she worked at Penguin Random House as a contracted photographer, implementing strategies and liaising with the marketing and advertising teams to create beautiful and eye-catching images for their social media.

Carah graduated from Florida State University with her bachelor’s in English with a concentration in editing, writing, and media, as well as a minor in communications. She also completed the Columbia Publishing Course at Oxford University and received a publishing certificate. While at Florida State, she volunteered at multiple literary journals and magazines on campus as an editorial assistant, writer, and photographer. She also is a published writer in Loomings Magazine and evolve. Magazine. Carah has secured media in The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, Inc., Success Magazine, WGN-TV, and more. She has booked top podcasts such as Ten Percent Happier and Typology.

Carah is also a freelance photographer focusing on weddings and portraits. Her creative eye has led her work to be published in magazines such as Strike, as well as the Unscripted App, a tool for photographers to learn how to pose their clients. In her free time, she enjoys having picnics with her friends in Central Park, writing poetry, playing guitar, and playing with her two goldendoodles, Lily and Ruby.

Clients have called Addie a “super-impressive” “rockstar” who is “so consistent, so dedicated and passionate” and who “flips worries into dreams”.  Her standout results come from a deep passion to uncover the essential story that defines every client.  A book lover since childhood and a proud generalist, Addie has worked on a wide range of titles ranging from the #2 New York Times bestseller Supercommunicators by Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Charles Duhigg to Design for a Radically Changing World by the Co-CEOs of Gensler, the world’s largest architecture and design firm to NYU Professor Tessa West’s Job Therapy. Her clients have spanned psychologists, CEOs, social justice activists and more.

Addie has secured coverage in outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, National Public Radio’s “Here and Now” and Lifekit”, Oprah Daily, The Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fast Company, INC., Fortune Well, NY Post, Bloomberg, The Guardian, BBC, Success Magazine and many more.  She has booked top ranked podcasts including A Bit of Optimism with Simon Sinek, The Daily Stoic with Ryan Holiday, The Art of Charm, Life is Short with Justin Long, Mentally Stronger, Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik, The Good Life Project, and The Genius Life with Max Lugavere.

Addie graduated with honors from the University of Virginia with her bachelor’s in English Literature. At UVA she edited for various publications and served as a campaign manager for the school chapter of Planned Parenthood. She also attended NYU’s Publishing Institute, graduating with a publishing certificate.

Naja is the New Business Manager at Fortier Public Relations. With more than six years of experience in PR, sales, customer service and administration, she has proven skills in written and verbal interpersonal communication, problem-solving, and research and analysis.  Prior to joining Fortier, Naja was the Executive Assistant to the founders of the Global Luxury PR Agency, BPCM. It was there that she developed an interest in public relations.

After graduating from Marist College with a degree in English, Naja developed her skills in media curation, long-form writing, and social media content creation. In her free time, Naja has a passion for the arts and pop culture, as well as photography and blogging. When she’s not working, she’s re-learning the art of crocheting or watching movies with her cat, Toby.

Clients have told Chandler that they are “beyond happy with the quality and commitment shown through your work every single day” and “Some people are merely good at their jobs but you go far above and beyond this.” She has over a decade of public relations experience. Her previous clients span business, technology, leadership, celebrity, psychology, design, finance, wellness and more. At Fortier PR, she’s worked with authors such as United Airlines’ former CEO Oscar Munoz, University of California’s Professor Dr. Gloria Mark, PepsiCo’s SVP & Chief Design Officer Mauro Porcini and former COO Grace Puma, the former President of Nike’s consumer-direct division Christiana Smith Shi, Yale University’s Professor Dr. Samuel Wilkinson, Google’s Executive Productivity Advisor Laura Martin and others.

Her media placements include The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, The Economist, TIME Magazine, Fast Company, Fortune, Newsweek, New York Post, USA Today, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Good Morning America, The Today Show, CBS Sunday Morning, NPR, CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, Fox Business, among many more. She’s also booked high profile interviews on top ranked podcasts including Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris, Masters of Scale, The Ezra Klein Show, Hidden Brain, HBR IdeaCast, Pivot with Scott Galloway and Kara Swisher, Art of Charm, Something You Should Know, among others.

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Rachel Meier is Vice President of Fortier Public Relations where her mission is to scale excellence across our company. From systems to performance to culture, she assures that everything at Fortier PR is operating like a well-oiled machine.

Rachel has extensive experience leading operational excellence at traditional and non-traditional media companies of all different shapes and sizes. She was the publishing director for Crown Publishers (a division of Penguin Random House), where she oversaw operations, strategic improvement initiatives, and publishing process for six publishing lines, producing more than 200 new titles a year. She was hired by renowned venture capitalist Brad Feld to launch a publishing imprint for Techstars, the world’s largest network of startups, in partnership with Wiley. Rachel was recruited by the inaugural team at Penguin Random House that integrated metadata into online sales & business strategy. And she has led startups that have disrupted publishing by combining AI, messaging, & design to help bestselling authors and experts like Eric Ries, Susan Cain, Rob Lieber, Gretchen Rubin and Mark Bittman to scale their reach, engagement, and revenue potential.

Rachel has spent her 15+ year career in publishing devoted to helping great ideas and compelling stories find their place in the world. She is a ceaseless champion of books, authors, and the people who support them.

Ari is a Senior Podcast Publicist at Fortier PR with over a decade of experience in book publicity, specializing in broadcast and podcast publicity. Prior to joining Fortier, she helped lead the Satellite Media tour department at Penguin Random House.  Award-winning bestselling authors she has arranged podcasts, TV and/or NPR for include Daniel H. Pink, Annie Duke, General Stanley McChrystal, Ken Langone, Admiral James Stavridis, Jen Sincero, John Grisham, Robert Greene, Michael Pollan, Elizabeth Gilbert, David Nasaw, Steven Pinker,  David Epstein, Phoebe Robinson, John McWhorter, Sean M. Carroll, Emily Oster, Katherine May, Jennifer Ackerman and many more.

She has secured media coverage for her authors on NPR, Marketplace, Bloomberg Radio, Dave Ramsey, People Magazine, The Megyn Kelly Show, The School of Greatness with Lewis Howes, NPR Hidden Brain, The Jordan Harbinger Show, The Ed Mylett Show, Something You Should Know and more.

In addition to her publicity experience, she spent many years working in audio and video production, including as Studio Manager at Media 3 LTD., a boutique TV studio in Midtown Manhattan, where she worked with CNBC, MSNBC, PBS News Hour, and ESPN, to produce talking head segments for CEOs, heads of state, sports stars, and celebrities. Ari graduated from Emerson College with a B.A. in Visual & Media Arts with a concentration in audio/radio. She currently lives in the Boston area.

Rob has a decades long career working in business book publicity. Clients have called have praised his “wealth of experience” and “excellent work” that “exceeded expectations” while being a “pleasure to work with.”

In addition to Fortier PR, he has previously worked for several major publishers including Times Books/Random House, Simon & Schuster, The Free Press, and John Wiley & Sons as well as independently.  He served as the head of business book publicity and lead business book publicist for the Business Plus imprint of Grand Central Publishing.

Rob works in all areas of book and author publicity including all online promotion and with a wide range of print, radio, and television media. He has developed and worked on publicity campaigns for several New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg BusinessWeek bestselling books. Authors he has worked on include former Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, Citigroup founder & former CEO Sandy Weill, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, #1 bestselling leadership author John Maxell and Vanguard founder John C. Bogle.

His media hits include The Today Show, NPR Morning Edition, 60 Minutes, CNN, Fox, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Bloomberg, Fast Company, AP and more.

Lily is a publicity assistant at Fortier Public Relations. With hands-on experience in social media marketing from her time interning at the influencer agency Society18 and media relations experience gained at Max Borges Agency, Lily brings a well-rounded skill set in communications to her role. She graduated with honors from Emerson College, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Public Relations with a minor in Marketing Communications, after studying in Boston and Los Angeles.

During her time at Emerson, Lily was the co-vice president of her local PRSSA chapter, delegating responsibilities and forging connections with fellow PR students. She also served as the marketing manager for Art Moves, focusing on social media outreach, event planning, and promotional materials. Additionally, Lily showcased her creative side as a food photographer and managed the Instagram page for Emerson’s baking club, Stairway to Leaven. Outside of work, Lily loves digging through old vinyl records, experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen, diving into classic novels, and challenging herself to beat her time on The New York Times mini crossword.

Jessica has nearly 25 years’ experience in book publicity and marketing. Formerly director of marketing and communications 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, and economists, including Cass Sunstein, Lawrence H. Summers, Vaclav Smil, William G. Bowen, Tom Davenport, Ruchika Tulshyan, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Philip Tetlock and MIT professor Sinan Aral, who co-leads MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy.  Leaders she has represented include Karine Jean-Pierre, Biden’s White House press secretary. Deanna Mulligan, CEO of Guardian Life Insurance, Lloyd Minor, dean of the Stanford School of Medicine, and Rob Chesnut, chief ethics officer and corporate counsel for Airbnb.

Her New York Times bestsellers include Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game.

Her media bookings include 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 op-ed and feature articles, as well as 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, WIRED, and more.

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Marcus is a publicity assistant at Fortier Public Relations. Prior to joining Fortier, Marcus worked as a Franchise Operations Manager for an Allstate Insurance Company where he played a pivotal role in improving process workflow and business development through sales and strategic marketing initiatives. Before that, Marcus interned with Digital Marketing and PR Agency, Belfort Group, where he developed skills in online advertisement, social media management and client pitching in the nonprofit and engineering sectors.

Saintphanie has worked on a variety of book campaigns from the New York Times Bestseller Your Brain on Art by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross to the Wall Street Journal bestsellers Burn the Boats by former Shark Tank shark Matt Higgins and Scaling People by former Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson, and the USA Today bestseller What Do You Do? by Colorcomm CEO Lauren Wesley Wilson.

Saint has secured media coverage at Fortune, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, KTLA, Fox News, Forbes, Chief Executive, INC, Success Magazine, New York Post, Psychology Today, Daily Mail, The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey, Mental Illness Happy Hour Podcast, Authority Magazine and Publishers Weekly.

Prior to joining Fortier, Saint worked as an editorial intern at HarperCollins where she helped facilitate the publishing process from story pitch to final copy. She has a background in Social Media Marketing and Community Engagement and loves to bring those skills to the campaigns she works on. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Media and English from the University of Michigan.

Outside of work, she enjoys reading, long walks with her goldendoodle, Hemsworth, and playing piano.

Called by her authors “a star who surpassed expectations” and “at the top of her game,” Lindsay has over 18 years of experience in the publishing industry and was most recently executive director of publicity for Viking Penguin. She led publicity strategy for their six imprints including Penguin Life and Maria Shriver’s The Open Field.

Her campaigns have hit the New York Times bestseller list for authors including Adam Grant, Elizabeth Gilbert, Nathaniel Philbrick, Jen Sincero, David Byrne, Rosanne Cash, Sir Ken Robinson, Ken Follett, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, Charan Ranganath, Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt, John M. Barry, and Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks.

Lindsay has booked coverage for her authors with 60 Minutes, CBS Sunday Morning, The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS Mornings, NPR’s All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Fresh Air, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and the Washington Post. She has secured many national book club selections including Oprah’s Book Club and The Life You Want Class, Read with Jenna, Good Morning America, Reese’s Book Club, Self’s Well-Read Book Club and more. Her recent podcast placements include We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle, Oprah’s Super Soul, On Purpose with Jay Shetty, The Ezra Klein Show, Pod Save America, the Daily Stoic with Ryan Holiday, The School of Greatness with Lewis Howes, NPR’s Life Kit, and Goop.

Lindsay graduated with honors from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Studies in Women and Gender.

Clients have praised Rebecca’s “tireless work, obvious talents, wonderful skills and energy” and called her “the perfect partner.” She has worked with CEOs and top executives from companies including Deloitte, Cisco and Netflix, and with professors from Stanford and leading medical experts. She has worked on bestselling campaigns including CEO Brad Deutser’s Belonging Rules and with authors ranging from CEO Jim Cullen and globally recognized DEI and women’s leadership expert Sally Helgesen to former Netflix executive Dr. Michelle P. King, mother of holistic medicine Dr. Gladys McGarey, and Stanford professor Myra Strober. She has secured media placements with The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Financial Times, Strategy + Business, Business Insider, NPR Marketplace, BBC Business, CNBC, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, AARP, Forbes, INC, Fast Company, Good Housekeeping, Cheddar TV, and top 100 podcasts including “Armchair Expert,” Carey Nieuwholf Leadership Podcast,” “Chopra Well,” “Kwik Brain,” and “We Study Billionaires.”

Prior to joining the Fortier Team, she was an assistant editor at BookTrib where she handled a variety of editorial, marketing, and publicity responsibilities. She also gained hands-on publishing experience from interning at Grove Atlantic and CAA, the Creative Artists Agency. She holds an M.S. in Publishing: Digital and Print Media from New York University and a B.A. in English Literature and Global Communications from Roger Williams University.

Clients have called Emily “a dream” and thank her for her “professionalism, creativity and informed, solid counsel.” Emily has led Fortier PR’s account for the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy research group which includes such thought leaders as Sinan Aral and Andrew McAfee.  She has also worked on book campaigns for former Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia, a16z crypto founder Chris Dixon, Algorithmic Justice League founder Dr. Joy Buolamwini, Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever, Beena Ammanath, Executive Director of the Global Deloitte AI institute, Nitin Mittal, Deloitte’s U.S. Artificial Intelligence Strategic Growth Offering Global Consulting Leader and Global Analytics Leader, and Babson professor Tom Davenport among others. Her recent work culminated with last year’s New York Times bestseller What We Owe the Future by Will MacAskill, whose high visibility campaign was called by Fast Company “the envy of any product launch.” She has secured media placements in outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Washington Post, Associated Press, Bloomberg TV, CNBC, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Forbes, INC., Business Insider and others as well as notable podcasts such as Pivot with Kara Swisher & Scott Galloway, The GaryVee Audio Experience, Hard Fork, and more.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Publishing Studies from Hofstra University with minors in both marketing and journalism.

Clients have called Margaret an “above and beyond” publicist whose work generates reactions like “Amazing,” “You’re killing it,” and “Holy Wow!” She has almost 15 years of public relations and book publishing experience. Prior to joining Fortier PR, she held publicity positions at agencies including Hilsinger-Mendelson, Smith Publicity, publishers, and global companies.

All of her books by CEOs hit the Wall Street Journal bestseller list (for Ginni Rometty of IBM, Ron Shaich of Panera Bread, and Clarke Murphy of Russell Reynolds & Associates). This year her book Supercommunicators by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Charles Duhigg rose to #2 on the New York Times bestseller list and has stayed on for twelve weeks and counting. Last year, her book Your Brain on Art hit the New York Times bestseller list. Her other New York Times bestselling authors include Yotam Ottolenghi, Nigella Lawson, Google VP Ivy Ross, Bianca Bosker, Jim Loehr, Dr. Kellyann Petrucci and Vern Yip.

Among her #1 New York Times bestsellers is Primates of Park Avenue by Wednesday Martin. Her frequent media placements include CBS Mornings, NPR, TODAY, Good Morning America, The Wall Street Journal (6 times so far this year), New York Times, Financial Times, Washington Post, MSNBC Morning Joe, CNN, Bloomberg, Harvard Business Review, The Economist, and many more.

Taylor is a Publicity Assistant at Fortier Public Relations. Before joining as a full-time employee, Taylor interned with Fortier and for the NYC-based literary agency Aevitas Creative Management, where she evaluated manuscripts, wrote reader’s reports, and pitched new book proposals, several of which were accepted for acquisition by agents.

Taylor graduated with honors from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a minor in Creative Writing. While at Michigan, Taylor was the Art and Design Chair for the campus literary journal, Writer to Writer, and served as Columnist, Deputy Editor, and then Managing Editor, for the Michigan Daily’s Statement Magazine, a weekly insert featuring investigative and narrative non-fiction.

She is passionate about stories that have the power to transport a reader, tackle complex questions about humanity, and which subtly weave expertise with open-mindedness. When she’s not reading, Taylor can usually be found battling the New York Times crossword puzzles, writing short stories, or finding new ways to entertain her six-toed cat, Lilou.

Carter is Fortier PR’s Client and Operations Coordinator, working behind the scenes to ensure each client’s expectations are met from start to finish. Of her experience working in administrative client care, former colleagues of Carter’s have described her as “the glue that holds our building together,” and someone “who is a reliable and supportive person for staff and clients alike.” She enjoys finding creative solutions to maximize day-to-day efficiency, and is adept at keeping things organized and running smoothly.

In her free time, Carter is an accomplished and passionate artist. She has been creating intricate pen and ink illustrations for over 12 years, and since then has branched out into several other mediums, such as linoleum printing, sculpting and painting. She regularly teaches herself new techniques and skills so she can continue to grow as an artist.

Paul’s New York Times bestselling campaigns have been praised as “unbelievably inventive and well-organized—so very well done,” and his clients have told him “I can’t imagine a better launch for this book.” He has spent over a decade representing major authors of serious nonfiction, and has worked on the #1 NYT bestseller The Algebra of Wealth by Scott Galloway, as well as NYT bestsellers by Yuval Noah Harari, Greg McKeown and New Yorker magazine staff writer Sheelah Kolhatkar. Some of the leading economists have turned to Paul for their books including Jeffrey Sachs, Keyu Jin, Dambisa Moyo, and Henry Kaufman. Business leaders too ranging from CEOs like Paul Polman (Unilever) to Silicon Valley VC and serial entrepreneur Elad Gil, to NYU Stern School Dean Emeritus Peter Blair Henry.  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.

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Barbara‘s clients have called her a “dream publicist” and “a wise,  tenacious, cheerleading, battlefield tested general.” Barbara has 14 years of experience working on New York Times best sellers and other breakout clients.

Her New York Times bestsellers for 2023 were Built to Move by Kelly and Juliet Starrett from Knopf (#3) and How Not to Age by Dr. Michael Greger from Flatiron Books (#2) and for 20204 so far are Cheaper, Faster Better by former U.S. presidential candidate Tom Steyer from Spiegel & Grau (#9).

Her other success stories include Earning It by Wall Street Journal columnist Joann Lublin, You Are Not Your Brain by UCLA’s Jeffrey M. Schwartz, M.D. and Rebecca Gladding, MD, Epic Measures by Atlantic writer Jeremy N. Smith, The Happiness Advantage by Harvard Researcher Shawn Achor, Better in 7 by Emmy Award-Winning Talk Show The Doctors Co-Host Andrew Ordon, MD, and Work Better Together by Jen Fisher, Deloitte’s Chief Well-Being Officer. This season she’s working with former U.S. presidential candidate Tom Steyer.

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David is a seasoned communication leader with a passion for creating impactful stories at the nexus of technology and culture. With more than eight years of agency-side client experience, David has worked with a range of Fortune 500 companies and fast-growing startups to drive PR strategy and counsel, media relations, content development, executive visibility, and more. David recently came from BCW, the global communications firm where he worked closely with large clients in the professional services, financial services, cybersecurity, real estate, and enterprise technology sectors. There, he managed the execution of campaigns and media relations with a focus on reputation, brand, and issues management. David is a long-time volunteer with the PRSA Dallas chapter, the fifth largest in the nation, and served in a leadership capacity over the last five years. Most recently, David was the chapter president in 2022, presiding over the chapter’s board and committees and overseeing membership, programming, and financial strategic planning. David earned his degree in Journalism, Strategic Communications concentration from the University of North Texas Mayborn School of Journalism, and earned his Accreditation in Public Relations (APR) credential in 2020.