is a publicity assistant at Fortier Public Relations. Prior to joining Fortier, she was the Agency Assistant at the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency, where she worked closely with authors on all aspects of their books from start to finish. She also interned at Writers House, where she assisted agents Geri Thoma and Andrea Morrison. She graduated with honors from the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Arts in English. She is particularly excited about the intersection of publicity and author advocacy and her goal is to bring this enthusiasm to each campaign she works on. In her spare time, she loves to knit, bake, meander through Central Park, and hang out with her cat, Meredith. 

has over 16 years of PR experience in the publishing industry. At Fortier PR, 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, 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 six years at Fortier PR, she orchestrated New York Times bestselling campaigns for…

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

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is a publicity assistant at Fortier Public Relations. Before joining the team at Fortier, she completed copywriting and editorial content internships for organizations in lifestyle, culture and fashion. She grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, and received her B.A. in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and an M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from New York University. She loves nonfiction books and is excited by writers who start conversations and craft narratives with a unique voice. Her goal in every campaign she works on is to reach and captivate the largest audience possible.

has worked in public relations for nearly a decade across both agency and in-house corporate
communications teams. He has secured a wide range of media placements ranging from “Good Morning America” to CNBC and Bloomberg. He has represented thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists, as well as organizations including Gatorade, Chevrolet, Abbott Labs, and Conagra Foods and sports events including the College World Series, Wells Fargo PGA Championship, NBA All-Star Game, and 2020 NFL Pro Bowl in Orlando.

He earned a B.A. in English and Communications from New Mexico State University, where he was the first student accepted to study at Italy’s esteemed Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. In addition to his PR and Communications career, Adam writes about the music industry as a contributing writer, covering and interviewing some of the biggest acts in music for various publications including MXDWN.

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 had her first #1 New York Times bestseller this season. 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 entrepreneurs Mikaila Ulmer and Rana el Kaliouby, to New York Times bestselling author thought leaders like Martin Lindstrom.

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.

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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, 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.  She has worked at Fortier PR for six years.

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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, Delivering Happiness CEO Jenn Lim, and Fortier’s accounts with Talent Strategy Group and top five strategy consulting firms.

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is the Podcasts and Events Publicity Assistant at Fortier Public Relations. Prior to joining the team at Fortier, she worked in college admissions and student life. She has extensive background in event creation and management, planning events for such names such as Bill Nye, LaVar Burton, and Henry Winkler. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Communication, as well as her Master of Arts in Communication, from Oakland University. Outside of work, she enjoys reading, crafting, and thrifting.

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), Johnny C. Taylor (SHRM), leaders like Henry Kissinger and #1 New York Times bestselling authors like Keith Ferrazzi. One of her many coups was spearheading the campaign for the long-running New York Times bestseller ​Radical Candor  by former Apple and Google executive Kim Scott.

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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.

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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.

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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.

In 2021, she has publicized six books that hit the New York Times or Wall Street Journal bestseller list: The Art of Impossible by Steven Kotler, Winning by Michael Jordan’s trainer, Tim S. Grover, Intuitive Fasting by Will Cole, The Unspoken Rules by Harvard career advisor Gorick Ng, Liquids Till Lunch by CEO MaryRuth Ghiyam, and Choose Possibility by former StubHub president, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy. Her previous New York Times bestsellers include The XX Brain by Dr. Lisa Mosconi and Mastering Diabetes by Dr. Cyrus Khambatta and Robby Barbaro.

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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, business and the environment.

Her most recent bestsellers are Finding the Mother Tree by ecologist Suzanne Simard (Knopf) and Under the Wave at Waimea (Houghton Mifflin) 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, paleontologist Henry Gee and Deloitte’s Chief Experience Officer Amelia Dunlop.

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is Strategy and Operations Advisor for Fortier Public Relations, guiding the team on operations, process improvement, and business development optimization. Or put in a more fun way: she gets after big picture strategic planning while being able to sweat the small stuff of execution. She loves running a team, making stuff work, and getting things done

Rachel has over ten years of experience leading content strategy, digital product development, and operational optimization for media companies ranging from traditional (at Penguin Random House as a publishing manager) and non-traditional (Techstars as a publishing director).

She likes to run very long distances and read books (lots of them) of any size.

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, Brené Brown, Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert, Tony Robbins, School of Greatness with Lewis Howes, Bulletproof, Gary Vee, Freakonomics, Kara Swisher, James Altucher Show, a16z, HBR Ideacast, Art of Charm, Guy Raz and hundreds more.

Her career has always combined her passion for both books and publicity.  A graduate of North Carolina State University, O’Licia’s 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.

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has spent the entirety of her career publicizing nonfiction books. Prior to joining Fortier Public Relations, she held positions at Harvard University Press, Hachette Book Group, and Storey Publishing.

Megan has publicized books across a wide range of topics, including political science, public health, economics, business, science, education, and social science. Notable authors she’s worked with include Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former Commissioner of the FDA on his New York Times bestseller Uncontrolled Spread, Dr. Joseph Allen, Director of the Harvard Healthy Buildings Program, Dr. Dambisa Moyo, economist and bestselling author, Dr. Joshua Bennett, Professor at Dartmouth and winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship, and Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever.

Her media placements include the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Fast Company, Bloomberg, CNN, MSNBC, CBS Evening News, NPR, PRI’s The World, Marketplace and Masters of Scale.

Megan graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Massachusetts. In her spare time, she is an avid reader and is currently learning to play the violin. She lives in Cambridge, MA.

is a publicity assistant at Fortier Public Relations. Prior to joining the Fortier Team, she was an assistant editor at BookTrib where she handled a variety of editorial, marketing, and publicity tasks. She also gained hands-on publishing experience from interning at Grove Atlantic and 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.  She enjoys working on creative campaigns for a diverse list of business and wellness titles.

is a publicity assistant at Fortier Public Relations. Prior to joining the team at Fortier, she worked as a content specialist with a career advancement company, where she worked on developing informational articles, crafting marketing campaigns, and implementing media outreach strategies. She has an extensive background in content development and editorial work and possesses a passion for all things literature. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Hofstra University, where she majored in publishing studies and received minors in marketing and journalism.

is Fortier PR’s Speakers Bureau Director, booking our clients at prestigious events worldwide.

Prior to joining Fortier PR, Lisa ran William Morris Endeavor’s Speakers Division for five years. While at WME, she worked with clients across all areas of the agency including bestselling authors Simon Sinek, Gabrielle Bernstein, Matthew Walker and Daniel James Brown, broadcasters Joy Reid, Tamron Hall and Sunny Hostin, host & author Padma Lakshmi and HGTV’s Erin & Ben Napier, to name just a few.

Lisa previously spent 13 years at IMG, where she ran their Speakers Division for over 10 years. During her tenure with the agency, she handled a diverse roster of high profile clients including legendary General Electric CEO Jack Welch, football greats Peyton Manning, Joe Montana and Eli Manning, Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts and Phil Keoghan, Host of The Amazing Race.

She began her career working in television production at King World Productions followed by a few years learning the ropes of the speaking industry at the William Morris Agency.

Lisa graduated from Lehigh University with a B.A. in International Relations. She lives in New York City.

has over a decade of public relations and book publishing experience. Prior to joining Fortier, she held publicity positions at agencies including Smith Publicity and Hilsinger-Mendelson, publishers including Workman, and global companies. Her previous clients include New York Times bestselling authors Jim Loehr, Nigella Lawson, Yotam Ottolenghi, Bianca Bosker, Vern Yip, and others. Her media placements include NPR Fresh Air and Weekend Edition, Marketplace, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Good Morning America, CNN, Bloomberg, Barron’s, The Economist, Tim Ferriss Show, and more. Her passion is helping authors receive recognition for what she considers one of the hardest but most rewarding endeavors: writing a book.

has over 15 years of experience in publicity and content development. He previously worked at HarperCollins, working across several imprints while also building out the HarperEspañol Spanish division. Dan has worked on notable titles in the lifestyle, health, wellness, and business categories including major bestsellers.

His media placements include The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS Sunday Morning, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. He regularly books leading podcasts such as Oprah’s Super Soul, The Joe Rogan Experience, Armchair Expert, The Rich Roll Podcast, Red Table Talk, School of Greatness, On Purpose, Mindvalley, and many more.

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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 Polman (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.  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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is a publicity assistant at Fortier Public Relations. Prior to joining Fortier, Cait worked as an editorial and marketing assistant with an independent publisher where she developed marketing campaigns, curated promotional materials, and spearheaded project management. At Fortier PR she has contributed to such bestselling campaigns as Finding the Mother Tree, by ecologist Dr Suzanne Simard and The Heart of Business, by former BestBuy CEO Hubert Joly.

Cait has an MA from George Washington University in Writing & Publishing and graduated Summa Cum Laude from DePaul University of Chicago with her BA in English Literature.

Cait not only enjoys helping authors connect with their audience but is also passionate about introducing inspiring and significant books to readers around the world. Outside of work, Cait enjoys sitting down with a new book, avoiding places she has to parallel park, and exploring the music scene.

…is the New Business Director and Proposal Writer for Fortier PR. He draws upon a long career in media relations at agencies including Ruder Finn and Dukas Linden. His mission is to understand clients’ goals, plan a corresponding strategy, crystallize our ideas in a proposal, and ensure a seamless onboarding process at the earliest stages of a publicity campaign.

To do so, Matt draws on a long career working at NYC-based public relations and communications agencies. In previous roles, he secured interviews in media like Bloomberg, Business Insider, and CNBC for executives and business leaders in finance and healthcare. His experience includes writing bylined articles and thought leadership content for executives at large companies including Pfizer, Lonza, and Biogen.