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AboutJanet's Bio
“a perfect balance of editorial acumen and marketing savvy.” (quoted in the Wall Street Journal)
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. [list of professional milestones]
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. She lives with her husband, Andres Henriquez, and their
two teenage daughters in Manhattan.
In terms of personal
passions, she plays soccer, is a former ballet dancer, loves the beach,
Maine, home exchanges to France and Italy,
reading--of course, friends, cooking, learning, family, movies, and all
the ahas! of life.
| Authors Janet has acquired, edited, and published:
Novelists Barbara Kingsolver and Jo-Ann Mapson;
executive consultants David Allen, Keith Yamashita, Susan Scott, and Starbucks executive Howard Behar; spiritual and
self-help guru Wayne Dyer; psychologist Harriet Lerner; parenting
educators Wendy Mogel, Mary Kurcinka, and Roni Cohen-
Sandler; poet and
activist Ellen Bass, relationship and publishing expert Susan Page;
journalists/reporters Suzanne Braun Levine, Maria Hinojosa, and
Linda Villarosa; political advocate Marie Wilson; Buddhists His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Lama
Surya Das; Lakota historian and storyteller Joseph Marshall;
anthropologist Mel Konner; and many others.
| Janet's Team
Karen Hatch, office and editorial assistant, Janet Goldstein Enterprises
Susan Hans O’Connor, editorial associate
Krista Reiner Carnes, founder and principal of Krista & Co., for speaking and business development
Lyndell Brookhouse-Gil, founder and principal of LBG Design, for graphic design and website development
Lana Abrams, founder of Nine Design, for graphic design
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