About Janet


Janet

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, published by Portfolio/Penguin Group, has been sold in eight countries and is 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 as well director of the spirituality imprint at Viking Penguin.

In addition to building her thriving consulting business, she co-developed the Publishing Reset Program, co-founded the live Book Breakthrough NYC event, and has taught at New York University, University of Michigan, City College of New York, and elsewhere on the subjects of publishing, business and career development, entrepreneurship, and the art of developing great ideas. She is a frequent speaker at such venues as the Small Press Writers Conference, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the San Miguel de Allende (Mexico) Writers Conference, and the Wealthy Thought Leader.

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, was a director of the nonprofit Shire Village Camp in Western Massachusetts, and currently serves on the board of The Women’s Media Group in New York City.

Janet’s Client List and Client Praise

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Janet’s most-recognized and leading authors and clients include:

  • Novelists Barbara Kingsolver and Jo-Ann Mapson
  • Executive consultants David Allen, Keith Yamashita, Susan Scott
  • CEO Starbucks executive Howard Behar, Aegis Living founder Dwayne Clark, and former Apple executive Jay Elliot
  • Buddhists His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Lama Surya Das
  • Spiritual and self-help gurus Wayne Dyer and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
  • Psychologists Harriet Lerner and Todd Kashdan
  • Online business entrepreneurs Andrea J. Lee, Mark Silver, Charlie Gilkey
  • Parenting educators Wendy Mogel, Mary Kurcinka, and Roni Cohen-Sandler
  • Poet and writing-about-out-lives teacher Ellen Bass
  • Writing teacher and expert on healing Laura Davis
  • Relationship and publishing expert Susan Page
  • Journalists and advocates Suzanne Braun Levine, Maria Hinojosa, and Linda Villarosa
  • White House Project founder Marie Wilson
  • Lakota historian and storyteller Joseph Marshall and anthropologist Mel Konner

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
  • Katie Dobruse, editorial assistant
  • Lana Abrams, founder of Nine Design, for graphic design
  • and many others