Bronwyn Fryer

Montpelier, VT USA
20 Years Experience

Professional Experience

I am an award-winning writer, editor, ghostwriter and a contributing editor to the Harvard Business Review. I have ghostwritten books and articles for behavioral economists; economists; psychologists, academics and business leaders. I have acquired, developed, ghostwritten, written and edited more than 100 articles for premier business publications. I have collaborated with leading thinkers and authors including best-selling behavioral economist Dan Ariely, historian David McCullough, CEOs including Cisco’s John Chambers and Google’s Eric Schmidt, and academics including Harvard professors Howard Gardiner, David Garvin, Nitin Nohria and many others. (A full list of articles is available on request).

Expertise

Editor 15 YearsWriter 20 YearsOther, Specify 5 Years

Specialty

Arts & Humanities 10 YearsBusiness (general) 20 YearsOther, Specify 10 Years

Industries

Book Publishing Consumer 5 YearsMagazine - Large Consumer/National magazines 15 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

  • Harvard Business Review (10+)
  • Harvard Business Review Press (1-2)
  • Public Affairs Books (1-2)
  • Random House (1-2)

Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

  • McKinsey & Co (3-5)
  • INSEAD (1-2)
  • Johnson & Johnson (1-2)
  • AT Kearney (1-2)
  • Booz & Co (1-2)
  • University of Southern California (1-2)

Awards

Best Personality Profile, New England Newspaper Association, 2012; PressAccess PressTIGE Award (Finalist), Most Erudite Features Writer, 1999; Newsweek Editor’s Choice Award, 1999; National Magazine Award Candidate, Worth Magazine, 1999; Western Magazine Publishers Maggie Award: Best Trade Magazine Issue (cover story, "Breaking into the Men's Club/Top 100 Women in Computing") Open Computing, December 199

Other Work History

senior editor, Harvard Business Review editor, PC World Magazine

Foreign Language Skills

Solid knowledge of spoken and written German and French, reading knowledge of Spanish

Computer Skills

MS Word, Excel

References

Dan Ariely, Duke University; John List, University of Chicago; Melinda Merino, Harvard Business Review Press; others available on request.

books

The Why Axis
(Public Affairs Books 10/1/2013)
Can economics be passionate?… Can it center on people and what really matters to them day-in and day-out.… And help us understand their hidden motives for why they do what they do in everyday life? Uri Gneezy and John List are revolutionaries. Their ideas and methods for revealing what really works

articles

Storytelling that Moves People
(Harvard Business Review 6/1/2003)
Persuasion is the centerpiece of business activity. Customers must be convinced to buy your company's products or services, employees and colleagues to go along with a new strategic plan or reorganization, investors to buy (or not to sell) your stock, and partners to sign the next deal...