Affiliates

Creating an idea platform is no easy task. Multiple components are needed to build a successful, sustainable platform, and developing each alone can be daunting.

In reality, producing the many and varied expressions of an idea platform—and reaching audiences with those expressions—requires support. It’s important to find people and resources that you can consistently depend upon to help bring the many aspects of an idea platform to fruition. This value chain of associates and partners will often include social media experts, web developers, designers, agents, PR firms, speaking coaches, editors and writers, interviewers, transcription services, and other media specialists.

Meet Our Key Partners

Barbara Lynn-Davis, Ph.D.

Barbara works with Idea Platforms, Inc. as a freelance writer and researcher. With a Ph.D. in art and architectural history, she brings an academic perspective to IPI's projects. She has contributed research and writing to City Secrets: Florence, Venice, and the Towns of Italy, lectured on Italian art, architecture, and gardens at Harvard and Princeton, and just completed her first novel.

Clara Silverstein

Clara collaborates with Idea Platforms, Inc. as a freelance writer and researcher. She has authored three books, is a Boston-based food writer and journalist, and serves as the program director of the summer Chautauqua Writers’ Center.

John T. Landry, Ph.D.

John works with Idea Platforms, Inc. as a researcher and editor, focusing on business. His academic training is in economic history, and he draws on years of editing and writing on management topics.

Dan Coleman, Ph.D.

Dan collaborates with Idea Platforms, Inc. on research, writing, and thought development. He holds an interdisciplinary humanities degree from the University of Chicago and a doctorate in English from Cornell University. He has taught literature, writing, philosophy, and education in colleges and high schools in New England and abroad, and most recently served for two years as the Assistant Head of the Cambridge School of Weston, a progressive high school outside of Boston.

Lauren Keller Johnson

Lauren works with Idea Platforms, Inc. as a freelance writer and editor. She has 25 years of experience in the publishing industry, including stints in educational as well as business publishing, and is happiest helping business leaders express their great ideas in the form of compelling books and articles.

Charlotte Maurer

Charlotte is an editor who lends her years of experience as a staff writer, editor, and copyeditor to IPI projects. She has worked with many publishing houses, and particularly enjoys working directly with authors to help them finish projects that may need another pair of hands.

Martine Bellen

Martine collaborates with Idea Platforms, Inc. as a freelance writer and editor. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, two libretti, and a novel and has worked, as well, in the book publishing industry as an editor for more than twenty years.

Sommerfield Communications

Sommerfield Communications is a corporate communications and public relations agency that serves top-tier professional services, financial services, technology, education and non-profit organizations. Founded in 1995, Sommerfield has worked with IPI for many years and has created and executed marketing programs involving many IPI-developed books on behalf of mutual clients.

Charlie Delafuente

Charlie is a journalist and copyeditor with decades of experience at major newspapers. He often proofreads and fact checks manuscripts for IPI prior to publisher submission. Charlie also has a law degree, which he draws upon when copyediting for the company.

Kay VanValkenburgh

Kay is a web developer who has worked with IPI to create and maintain a strong website. He is the principal of Integrated Media Environments and brings great technical knowledge to IPI's projects.