Our Clients

Chris Smalls is the founder and president of the Amazon Labor Union, an independent, democratic, worker-led labor union at Amazon in Staten Island.

Emily Esfahani Smith is a writer, editor, and speaker in Washington DC. She draws on psychology, philosophy, and literature to write about the human experience—why we are the way we are and how we can find grace and meaning in a world that is full of suffering. Her book The Power of Meaning, an international bestseller, has been translated into 16 different languages. The former managing editor of The New Criterion, Smith’s articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and other publications. She has also appeared on NBC’s TODAY Show, CBS This Morning, and NPR. In 2019, she was a Poynter Journalism Fellow at Yale University. As a speaker, she has delivered dozens of keynotes and workshops at major corporations, conferences, and universities across the country and world.

For ten years, Freddie played the character Sonny Kiriakus on the Days of our Lives and was nominated for two Daytime Emmy Awards (he won Outstanding Young Actor in a Drama Series 2015). He had a recurring role as a soccer coach on the remake of 90210 and a part on Medium. After moving to Florida to become a relator, he started posting videos about real estate and personal finance on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. All of the sudden, his videos were getting hundreds, then thousands, then millions views. He’s now a personal finance authority on social and traditional media, appearing on podcasts and national TV shows to talk about how Millennials and Gen Zers have been left behind by today’s economy.

Talmon Joseph Smith is an economics reporter for the Business section ofThe New York Times. He covers nationwide macroeconomic developments, labor markets and the intersection of financial markets with pocketbook issues. He was a 2023 finalist for the University of Michigan Livingston Award for outstanding reporting by journalists under the age of 35. He has written forThe Atlantic, The New Republic and other national outlets. He previously worked at GQ Magazine. He began his career as a scholar in residence at the NYU Journalism Institute. He lives in New York and his first book is forthcoming from Atria in 2026.

Julie Smolyansky is CEO and Director of Lifeway Foods Inc. Named the nation’s youngest female CEO of a publicly held firm in 2002, she was recently named to Fortune’s “40 under 40” and Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business 1000.”

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is the voice of all things work, workers and the workplace and the foremost expert, convener and thought leader on issues impacting today’s evolving workplaces. With 300,000+ HR and business executive members in 165 countries, SHRM impacts the lives of more than 115 million workers and families globally.

Maya Soetoro-Ng is the Director of Community Outreach and Global Learning for the Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution at the University of Hawaii in Manoa. She holds a Masters degree in Secondary Education from NYU and a PhD in Multicultural Education from the University of Hawaii. Her first picture book, The New York Times bestselling Ladder to the Moon (Candlewick), was inspired by her young daughter Suhaila’s questions about her grandmother Ann Dunham, the mother of Maya and of our forty-fourth president, Barack Obama. Maya is an advocate for community service and peace education. Her debut young adult novel is being published by Candlewick.

Josh Sokol is a reporter whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Science, The Atlantic, Scientific American, Quanta Magazine, Best American Science and Nature Writing, The Best Writing on Mathematics, and more.He has received science feature writing awards from the American Astronomical Society’s Division of Planetary Science, the American Astronomical Society’s High-Energy Astrophysics Division, the American Institute of Physics, the American Geophysical Union, and the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing.

Jenn Granneman and Andre Sólo are the founders of Highly Sensitive Refuge and Introvert, Dear, two of the largest websites for highly sensitive people (HSPs) and introverts. Together, they have helped hundreds of thousands of HSPs around the world live happier and more fulfilling lives.

Gay rights advocate Marc Solomon is the author of the definitive history Winning Marriage: The Inside Story of How Same-Sex Couples Took on the Politicians and Pundits—and Won (ForeEdge). He served as National Campaign Director of Freedom to Marry until its dissolution in 2015 after the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic ruling in favor of marriage equality. He was also executive director of MassEquality from 2006 to 2009.

Co-founders of Someecards.com, Brook Lundy and Duncan Mitchell both worked in advertising before launching their business.

Tim Sommer is a veteran rock journalist who has written for Rolling Stone, Billboard, Spin, Washington Post and the Observer. He discovered Hootie and the Blowfish while at Atlantic Records.

Nick Sonnenberg is the founder and CEO of Leverage, a business efficiency consultant, Inc. columnist and author of the book Idea to Execution. As a serial entrepreneur with a passion for productivity and a background in data science, Nick’s mission is to create companies that disrupt the way people work by leveraging the power of outsourcing, remote teams, common tools, and automation. Nick has worked with individuals and companies of all sizes, including Tony Robbins, Jay Abraham, Joe Polish, Ethereum and more.

Barry Sonnenfeld is a film and television director. Among his film credits are the three Men in Black movies; the two Addamms Family movies; Get Shorty. For television he has directed and produced Pushing Daisies and A Series of Unfortunate Events among many others.

Kevin Sorbo is an actor best known for his roles as Hercules in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Captain Dylan Hunt in Andromeda, and Kull in Kull the Conqueror. He is a spokesperson for the nonprofit organization A World Fit For Kids and author of the widely praised autobiography True Strength (Da Capo).

Emma Southon has a PhD in Ancient History from the University of Birmingham. A version of her thesis was published as Marriage, Sex and Death: The Family and the Fall of the Roman West (Amsterdam University Press, 2016). After a few years teaching Ancient and Medieval history, followed by some years teaching academic writing she quit academia and started writing for her own enjoyment.

Her critically praised Agrippina, a biography of the much-maligned mother of Nero, was published by Unbound in 2016.

Her acclaimed A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, an exploration of murder and homicide in the Roman world, was published by Abrams in the US and by Oneworld in the UK and has also been translated into Russian and Spanish.

Abrams published A Rome of One's Own - The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire in North America in 2023, with Oneworld publishing in the UK as A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women.

Ben Southwood is a founding editor of Works in Progress. He has been head of research at Create Streets, and head of housing at Policy Exchange, been part of three successful Emergent Ventures grants, and worked as a public sector consultant for KPMG. He is a Senior Fellow at the Adam Smith Institute.

Ashley Spencer is an entertainment writer and reporter whose work regularly appears in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vulture, VICE, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, and elsewhere.

Jason Sperling serves as SVP, Chief, Creative Development at RPA Advertising in Los Angeles, where he spear-heads marketing efforts for Honda North America, Amazon, TikTok, UNICEF Worldwide, the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation, and the LGBT Center in Los Angeles. Jason's work has won the Cannes Gold and been nominated for an Emmy, and his Super Bowl commercials for Honda have landed on all-time best lists. He has been a professor-in-residence at the University of Texas and has spoken to advertising federations across the nation, including at Cannes, SXSW, and TEDx.

Colin Spoelman is a former rooftop moonshiner from Kentucky who founded Kings County Distillery with David Haskell in 2010. He is co-author of The Guide to Urban Moonshining and Dead Distillers. Spoelman also works in architecture.

Marianna Spring is the BBC's first disinformation and social media correspondent and an award-winning journalist. She presents podcasts and documentaries investigating disinformation and social media for BBC Radio 4 podcasts, as well as for BBC Panorama and BBC Three. She is also one of the presenters of the BBC's Americast podcast. In 2022, she was named the British Press Guild's Audio Presenter of the year and Royal Television Society Innovation winner.

Alex Stacey grew up just outside Paris and spent a huge part of her childhood watching, learning and cooking in her mother and grandmother’s kitchens. When not in the kitchen, her family’s favourite pastime was travelling around France in their trusty Renault Espace to sample the food specialities of the different regions. From Corsica to Brittany, she learned about beautiful locally grown ingredients, distinctive flavours and seasonality. Although her childhood dream had been to open a restaurant, a passion for History took her to the UK for her studies and then to London, where she worked in Arts PR. Having two children of her own spurred her on to revisit and rediscover all the simple comforting recipes she loved so much as a child. In recent years she has documented these dishes on her Instagram account @frenchfamilyfood and is passionate about the delicious, colourful and feelgood food she prepares daily for her family.

Ed Stack is the CEO of DICK’s Sporting Goods.

Allison Stanger is the Leng Professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College, and the author of WHISTLEBLOWERS: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump.

A military veteran and associate professor of security studies at Georgetown University, Stanley is the founder of the nonprofit The Mind Fitness Training Institute. Her work in mindfulness and mind fitness has received attention from the New York Times, NPR, ABC’s Evening News, TIME, and elsewhere.

Mercury Stardust is a Trans advocate, TikTok sensation know by her moniker, “The Trans Handy Ma’am,” and the bestselling author of Safe & Sound: A Renter Friendly Guide to Home Repair.  With over 14 years of experience as a home repair technician, Mercury helps her audience build the confidence, self-sufficiency, and foundational knowledge necessary to care for and maintain their homes.Has use of 10% verbatim material from the book in

Douglas Starr is a veteran journalist and co-director of the Graduate Program in Science Journalism at Boston University. His book, The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science (Knopf, 2010), tells the story of the 19th-century pioneers of forensic science and the notorious serial killer they caught and convicted with scientific techniques. The book won the Gold Dagger award in the UK, was a finalist for the Edgar Allen Poe award in the US, and appeared on the New York Times Book Review’s “Editor’s Choice” list and the True Crime bestseller lists of the Wall Street Journal and Library Journal. His previous book, BLOOD: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce (Knopf, 1998), tells the four-century saga of how human blood became a commodity.Professor Starr’s writings about science, the history of science and science in public policy have appeared in many venues, including The New Yorker, WIRED, SLATE, the New Republic, Discover, Science, Smithsonian, Public Television, National Public Radio, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Sunday Globe Magazine.

Leslie Staub is a children’s book author and illustrator from New Orleans. An accomplished artist, her work has been exhibited nationwide. She loves animals and forests and drawing and reading and writing and making up stories. She didn't always love reading and writing because she has dyslexia.

Leslie works from her studio in the country with her dog, rabbit, and all the wild creatures who live in the woods.

A writer and independent curator who specializes in postwar American art, Stein is a former arts reviewer for NPR’s Fresh Air and Morning Edition, and she writes regularly for Art in America. She has also written for The New York Times Book Review and other publications, and her work on Richard Bellamy earned a Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant.

Beck Dorey-Stein spent five years as a White House Stenographer. Prior to transcribing President Obama and Trump, she taught high school English. Beck graduated from Wesleyan University, where she worked in undergraduate admissions and served as captain of the women's lacrosse team.

Elizabeth Stein is the founder and CEO of the natural foods company Purely Elizabeth and author of the cookbook Eating Purely (Skyhorse).

Alexandra Steinacker-Clark is an American-Austrian art historian, curator, writer and podcaster. She lives and works in London, UK. She obtained her BA in History of Art at University College London and continued her education at Goldsmiths University with an MA in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy. Her specializations are in contemporary art and the contemporary art market along with accessibility, engagement, and the demystification of the professional art sector. She is the founder and host of the 'All About Art' Podcast, Board Member of SALOON Network, and a TEDx speaker. She is the co-director of NXT GEN: AWITA x All About Art Programme and has previously worked at Gallery Max Hetzler, Skarstedt Gallery, Shezad Dawood Studio, and Sotheby’s Auction House.

Comedian, director, and producer, Steinberg guest-hosted the Johnny Carson show 130 times, more than anyone else, and has directed countless episodes of Golden Girls, Friends, Seinfeld, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Greg Steinmetz grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and spent fifteen years as journalist for publications including the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, the Houston Chronicle, New York Newsday, and The Wall Street Journal, where he served as the Berlin Bureau Chief and later the London Bureau Chief. He currently works as a securities analyst for a money management firm in New York. He is a graduate of Colgate University and has a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He has three children and lives in Larchmont, New York.

Caren Stelson is the author of works for children and young adults. Caren has had a long career in education, as a teacher, writer-in-residence, and freelance writer. After receiving her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Hamline University in 2009, Caren decided it was time to write the stories that needed her attention. Accolades for her books include a Robert Sibert Honor Award, placement on the longlist for the National Book Award, and the Jane Addams Book Award.

Caren and her husband Kim have two grown children. They split their time between home in Minneapolis and the small town of Lanesboro.

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Isaiah Stephens is a freelance illustrator and animator located in Lowell, MA. He studied Media Arts and Animation at the New England Institute of Art, and has illustrated book jackets for the Italian translation of The Hunger Games, the novel The Devil Came East, and others.

Siena Sterling is an American citizen living in London. William Morrow, HarperCollins US published her first novel Tell Us No Secrets in 2022 and her second, The Games She Plays in 2023.

Dr. Adam Philip Stern is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Psychiatric Applications at the Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation. His writing has been published in The New York Times, NPR.org, The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, The American Journal of Psychiatry, and Biological Psychiatry in addition to many other outlets and peer-reviewed journals.

Todd Stern is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution concentrating on climate change, and advising about ongoing efforts on climate change at both the international and domestic levels. Stern served as the special envoy for climate change at the Department of State and as President Obama’s chief climate negotiator, leading the U.S. effort in negotiating the Paris Agreement and in all bilateral and multilateral climate negotiations in the seven years leading up to Paris. Stern has taught and lectured at Yale Law School and Brown Universities. He has written for various publications, including The Washington Post, The Atlantic,The American Interest, and The Washington Quarterly and has appeared on CNN, BBC, MSNBC, and NPR, among others.

The agent and professional partner of legendary photographer Richard Avedon, Norma Stevens, in collaboration with journalist Steven M. L. Aronson, tells the compelling story of Avedon's life and career.

What do the CEO's of the world's largest corporations, the planet's biggest recording artists, senior government and military officials, influential NGOs and the most maverick investors have in common? They turn to Mark Stevenson to help them make sense of, and navigate, an uncertain future - so that we might create a better one.

As an internationally renowned thinker on systems change and innovation Mark is one of the worlds' most booked speakers addressing audiences across the globe - drawing on his work helping organisations change the way they feel, think, invest and operate in order to answer the grand questions the future is asking us. Chris Anderson, TED Curator remarks, 'Stevenson wears no blindfold. His tools are curiosity, open-mindedness, clarity and reason.'

His two bestselling books, An Optimist's Tour of the Future and the award-winning We Do Things Differently are much needed shots of evidence-based optimism for our current turbulent times, mapping out existing and proven solutions to our planetary and societal dilemmas in an entertaining ideas-travelogue format.

Alongside his governmental, corporate and NGO engagements Mark (a former stand-up) enjoys a successful side career in the worlds of comedy and music. His internationally successful podcast The Book of Revelations with comedian Jon Richardson (and co-hosted by Ed Gillespie) has enjoyed over 1m listens to date and is rated in the top 0.5% of podcasts worldwide by popularity. His farce (co-authored with Jack Milner) Octopus Soup! completed a major UK tour just before lockdown and is set to be presented internationally. He is also co-songwriter and frontman for the critically acclaimed rock band Quantum Pig who release a second album and embark on their first national tour later this year.

Mark's eclectic skillset has led to him being appointed Special Advisor on Peace, National Security and Climate Change to the UK Ministry of Defence, Futurist without Borders for Medicines Sans Frontiers (UK) and Global Ambassador for environmental law firm Client Earth amongst many other advisory roles.

Amanda Sthers is a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker. She has written ten novels which have been translated in more than fourteen countries, and was given the title of "Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres" by the French government. Her latest novel, Holy Lands, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury.

Stillman’s books include Blood Brothers (Ohioana Book Award Winner; Kirkus Reviews, starred review; “Best of the West 2018,” True West Magazine); Desert Reckoning (winner of the Spur and LA Press Club Awards for Nonfiction, an Amazon Editors Pick, based on a Rolling Stone piece), and Mustang, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. In addition, she wrote the cult classic, Twentynine Palms, a Los Angeles Times bestseller that Hunter Thompson called “A strange and brilliant story by an important American writer.” She's a member of the core faculty at the UC Riverside-Palm Desert MFA Low Residency Creative Writing Program, where she teaches nonfiction.

Robert Stone, an Academy Award nominated director who has been called by Entertainment Weekly’s Owen Gleiberman, “one of our most important documentary film makers”. He has been producing, directing and writing feature documentaries about American history, pop-culture, the mass media and the environment for more than two decades.

A writer on environmental science, agriculture, and botany, Stone has written for National Geographic and is a former White House correspondent for Newsweek and the Daily Beast. His work has also appeared in Time, the Washington Post, Vice, and Literary Hub, and he teaches environmental policy at Johns Hopkins University.

Kara Storti knew she wanted to be a writer when she decided to skip her junior prom to attend the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Middlebury, Vermont. In the years following she spent most of her free time writing short stories, novellas, and poems, and composing pop songs. In 2006 she graduated from the University of Southern Maine with an MFA in Creative Writing, where she fell in love with writing novels for young adults. Kara has been a singer, songwriter, pianist, and flautist since she was a child and has performed throughout the world. She grew up in upstate New York and now resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

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Dr Harald Stossier has an outstanding international reputation both as a practitioner and innovator of Mayr Medicine. After studying under the legendary Dr Rauch, he set up in 2004 as Medical Director of the legendary Viva - Centre for Modern Mayr Medicine on the shores of Lake Wörth near Klagenfurt, which is now regarded as the world's leading health spa. Harald Stossier has been deeply instrumental in the integration of complementary medicine within the medical profession. He has been a consultant for complementary medicine at the Medical Chamber of Carinthia and the Austrian Medical Association since 1988.

In addition to the The Viva Mayr Diet, he has published many articles and books on Mayr Medicine and nutrition and has also lectured widely.

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Emily Strasser’s first book, Half-Life of a Secret, is a deeply researched memoir that traces her journey to reckon with the toxic legacies of secrecy of her grandfather’s work building nuclear weapons in the atomic city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It won the 2024 Reed Environmental Writing Award and the 2024 Minnesota Book Award.

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Emily’s work has appeared in Catapult, Ploughshares, Guernica, Colorado Review, The Bitter Southerner, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and Gulf Coast, among others. She was also the presenter of the 2020 BBC podcast “The Bomb.” Her writing has been honored by awards and fellowships including the Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest, an AWP Intro Award, the W.K. Rose Fellowship, the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing, and grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Jerome Foundation, and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and she was a 2019 McKnight Writing Fellow. Emily now teaches at Tufts University.

Matt Strassler is a theoretical physicist, blogger and writer.  He is currently an Associate of the Department of Physics at Harvard University, where he was formerly a Visiting Scholar and Visiting Professor. Previously he was a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Washington and Rutgers University. He was a long-term member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and has also been a visitor at the Galileo Galilei Institute in Florence and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara.

His research spans many areas of high-energy physics, and his insights into the subtle behaviour of strong forces have been influential in areas that range from mathematical physics and string theory to experimental particle physics at the Large Hadron Collider and beyond.

Pastors Darryl Strawberry and Tracy Strawberry are a husband-and-wife team who founded Strawberry Ministries, Straw Marketing, LLC, and the Darryl Strawberry Foundation and co-authored The Imperfect Marriage: Help For Those Who Think It’s Over (Howard Books). Darryl is a baseball legend, former New York Mets slugger, and home run leader who won four World Series titles and became an eight-time National League All-Star player.

Cheryl Strayed is the internationally acclaimed author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail; Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar; and Brave Enough. The New York Times Book Review hailed Wild as “a literary and human triumph." It has sold over four million copies and has been translated into more than forty languages. Wild became a major motion picture starring Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern. 

Strayed’s New York Times bestseller Tiny Beautiful Things has been embraced by readers worldwide. The Hulu series based on the book premiered in 2023, and an Off-Broadway play has been staged nationwide. Her book Brave Enough collects more than one hundred of her inspiring quotations. Strayed is also the author of the debut novel Torch and co-host of two hit podcasts, Sugar Calling and Dear Sugars.

Cheryl Strayed’s stories and essays have been published in The Best American Essays, the New York Times, the Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, Salon, and elsewhere and have been widely anthologized. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Lynn Steger Strong is the author of the novels HOLD STILL, WANT, and most recently, FLIGHT. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Time, The Guardian, Harper’s Bazaar, Los Angeles Times, The Paris Review, Bomb, Guernica, Literary Hub, Catapult, Elle.com, The Cut, New York Magazine, LARB, The Millions, and elsewhere. She teaches writing at Princeton and her next novel THE FLOAT TEST is forthcoming from Mariner Books

Formerly a reporter for the Verge and Bloomberg News, Stroud writes about law enforcement and the companies That sell products to police and prisons. His work has also appeared in the Atlantic and Politico, among other publications.

Susan Stryker is an historian and award-winning author, editor, and filmmaker whose credits include the Emmy-winning documentary Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria and the two-volume Transgender Studies Reader. She is the recipient of Yale University’s 2015 Michael J. Brudner Memorial Prize and the City University of New York’s Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies’ 2009 David Kessler Award for her contributions to the field of LGBT Studies.

William Sturkey is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. His book Hattiesburg won the Zocalo Book Prize, and his work has been featured in The New York Times, on NBC News, and elsewhere.

Stylist, the multi award-winning free, quality weekly title for stylish, intelligent British women, launched in October 2009. A beautifully designed mix of fashion, beauty, thought-provoking features and news, Stylist was described by Enders Analysis as ‘the pivotal magazine launch of the last 10 years’ and has won more than 30 prestigious awards for editorial and publishing excellence, including the PPA’s highest honour: Brand Of The Year. It is now the leading fashion and lifestyle weekly in the UK, with an audited ABC in excess of 400,000.Stylist’s daily email ‘Emerald Street’ reaches more than 110,000 engaged, active professional women readers.