magazine samples:
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In-house magazine of Advantage | Forbes Books
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Distributed to 10,000+ CEOs.
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Wrote cover story and 3 other featured profiles of business executives
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In-house magazine of Advantage | Forbes Books
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Distributed to 10,000+ CEOs.
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Wrote cover story and 3 other featured profiles of business executives
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Book review supplement of Forbes magazine, shrink wrapped with main issue and delivered to Forbes subscriber base biannually
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Wrote or copyedited nearly all content for issue, served as proofreader and quality control for errors of any type
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In-house magazine of Advantage | Forbes Books
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Distributed to 10,000+ CEOs.
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Wrote multiple featured profiles of business executives, this file contains just my writing samples (rest of mag omitted)
excerpt:
ghostwritten LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
“To grow, we must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity.” In pivotal moments of hardship, you have a choice: Will you decide to be resilient, to exploit the dormant opportunities and new perspective that this struggle afforded you? Or, will you let it defeat and derail you?
The themes of adversity and resilience arise again and again in this issue. You’ll read incredible stories of people who conquered the hardships they were dealt—like Shay Eskew, our cover star, who found a bright silver lining after bearing burns to half his body as a child. Devastated that he couldn’t play team sports, he soon discovered that he excelled in anything that demanded all-out endurance. He eventually became one of the top one percent of Ironman triathletes in the world.
Leadership coach Tracey Grove was forced to start her life over after a near-death experience, but it landed her on directly Microsoft’s doorstep, where she thrived for the next two decades. Now, she teaches leaders the art of practiced resilience in response to stress.
Adversity, it seems, is the mechanism that compels growth. It’s the chisel that reveals an ornate sculpture where a blank slab of marble once stood. It may be a painful process, you may lose things you held dear in the process. But as my friend Alan Mullaly says, “Every problem is a gem.” It’s a chance to give special attention to something that you may never have known was an area of vulnerability.
excerpt:
EDITORIAL profile of plastic surgeon
With senior year drawing to a close, Dennis Schimpf was scrambling. His college mandated he complete a certain number of volunteer hours, and he had yet to start. Now in a pinch, the college senior had under two months to squeeze in an absurd amount of work.
“You’ll need somewhere that stays open 24 hours,” his counselor quipped.
And this is how a sports-scholarship-recipient came to spend nearly all his free time in the emergency room. It was nothing short of a plot twist when he fell in love with medicine. The attraction proved so powerful that it quickly derailed pre-existing ambitions—student administration, law school, coaching. Dennis promptly enrolled in a post-bachelor’s program to complete the prerequisites for med school.
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After med school and a five-year residency in general surgery, Dennis—now Dr. Schimpf—had been exposed to a host of different surgery types—cardiac, trauma, neuro. Ultimately, he found himself drawn to breadth and scope of plastic surgery. “It was one of the few disciplines where you can operate on the whole human body—from head to toe - doing facial trauma, cleft/open palate, cancer reconstruction, breast reconstruction, right on into cosmetic surgery.”
Despite his passion for it, surgery did not entirely eclipse Dennis’ other aspirations and interests. Amid an illustrious career as a surgeon, he returned to school to pursue an MBA. Armed with newfound business acumen to supplement his surgical skill, he began his own private practice, Sweetgrass Plastic Surgery in the lowcountry of South Carolina. Finding himself in the “mecca of microsurgical breast reconstruction” that is Charleston, Dr. Schimpf spent many years honing his skill in reconstructive medicine.