Join us for the closing session of the Fall ’22 Thought-Leadership Writing Incubator hosted by Rhea Wessel. It’s open to the public. Learn about how the program went, meet the winner of our award for the best article, and hear from our guest speaker, Evan Schwartz.
Evan is serving as our judge for the Fall ’22 award and will speak about his choice of a winning article. He will also share with us how he organizes his ideas and research for long-form writing. These organizational tips can help you have all your materials and ideas at hand for article writing.
This is a virtual event
About Evan Schwartz
Evan writes about history, innovation, tech, music, and media. He is the author of The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television (HarperCollins, 2002), named by Amazon Books as one of “100 Biographies & Memoirs to Read in a Lifetime.”
His book Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story (Houghton Mifflin, 2009) is a narrative about the origins of a cultural icon, The Wizard of Oz.
Evan is a former editor at BusinessWeek and MIT Technology Review and a contributor at WIRED. His feature about space junk appeared in the 2011 Best American Science and Nature Writing series.
From 2011-2019, Evan was Director of Storytelling at Innosight, where he co-authored a study on the world's most transformative companies published in Harvard Business Review.
Since 2020, he’s served as a team member & storyteller for SPEED & SCALE: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now by John Doerr (Penguin/Portfolio, 2021).
He produced and wrote the documentary Saved by the Sun which gauges the future of solar power and premiered on PBS/NOVA on Earth Day 2007.
Evan’s first novel, REVOLVER, is available as a free, advanced reader copy, in paperback only (Concord Free Press, 2021).
Evan launched Story-Is-Strategy Partners to help organizations discover and tell their most powerful stories.
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