Janet’s passion has been to discover, develop, and market authors, books, and ideas that can make a difference to the widest possible audience in such fields as business, psychology, women’s issues, parenting, education, health, social issues, spirituality, and fiction. She is a publishing and strategy consultant who works with authors, entrepreneurs, business leaders, and nonprofits at all stages to take their ideas, platforms and brands to the next level. Since January 2005 Janet and her team at Janet Goldstein Enterprises have partnered with a wide range of clients on thought partnership, proposal development, and launch plans for new business and book ventures; messaging, visibility, and constituency-building strategies; and selected fiction and nonfiction editing projects. Her first book, coauthored with Howard Behar, titled It’s Not About the Coffee: Leadership Principles from a Life at Starbucks, was published by Portfolio/Penguin Group in January 2008. (Now in paperback)
Known for her creative thinking and commitment to success, she rose up to editorial management positions at HarperCollins Publishers, was part of the executive start-up team at Broadway Books, a division of Random House, and was for six years an executive editor and imprint director at Viking Penguin.
In addition to building her thriving consulting business, she directs the book section of the renowned NYU Summer Publishing Institute. She is a frequent speaker at such venues as the Small Press Writers Conference, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, The University of Michigan, and the San Miguel Writers Conference.
Janet was raised in Southern California, educated at Barnard College in New York City, and she brings a bit of West Coast heart to her East Coast experience. She served on the nonprofit board of the Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation (WHEDCo) in the South Bronx and is currently a director of the nonprofit Shire Village Camp in Western Massachusetts.
