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Executive Ghostwriting

When the moment is high-stakes — the keynote your board will remember, the op-ed that signals your position to the field, the speech the room has to feel — the writing has to be right.

I’ve spent the last three years as an executive speechwriter, drafting hundreds of speeches, briefings, op-eds, and talking points for boards, donors, legislators, and national audiences last year alone.

Before that, as an associate at West Wing Writers in Washington, D.C., I drafted for Fortune 500 executives and national nonprofits. The work is the same wherever the podium is: clear, on-message, and unmistakably in your voice.

What I write:

  • Keynotes, commencement addresses, and high-stakes speeches
  • Op-eds and bylined commentary, including for national outlets
  • Briefings, talking points, and remarks for board and stakeholder meetings
  • Executive thought-leadership pieces, including LinkedIn and other long-form social media that sounds like a person, not a personal brand
  • Video scripts and short-form remarks

Speech Coaching

When you want to ensure that the speech matches the text, I also coach speakers from the page to the podium — including executives preparing for keynotes, board presentations, and high-stakes interviews.

Learn more about speech coaching.

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Proofreading & Editing

Most writing is fixed at the editing stage, not the drafting stage. A second set of expert eyes — at the right level of intervention — can be the difference between a manuscript that gets read and one that gets put down.

For seventeen years I was the founding editor and publisher of an independent news site I built to 900,000 annual readers, with bylines in Politico and other national outlets. At West Wing Writers, I fact-checked and copy-edited everything from tweets to books for high-profile clients. Before either, I spent two decades in the classroom teaching writing at the AP and college level. I’ve edited at every scale, from the comma to the structure of an argument.

Editing options:

  • Proofreading — final-pass fixes for grammar, punctuation, and consistency before something goes out
  • Copy and line editing — sentence-level work for clarity, rhythm, and precision
  • Matching style guides — edits for  Chicago, MLA, AP style or any format.
  • Developmental editing — structural feedback on argument, organization, and pacing for longer pieces and manuscripts
  • Fact-checking and pre-publication review — verifying claims, sources, and quotations

Tell me what you have and what stage it’s at. I’ll tell you what kind of edit it actually needs — which is sometimes less than people think, and sometimes more.

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Humanizing AI Writing

AI tools are good at first drafts and bad at finishing. The result is text that’s structurally fine and unmistakably hollow — generic transitions, repeated phrases, the rhythm of a tool that has read everything and felt nothing.

I take what you started in ChatGPT, Claude, or another AI tool and finish it the way you would have if you’d had three more hours and a good editor. That means cutting the giveaway phrases, restoring rhythm and specificity, putting your actual experience back into sentences the model could only gesture at, and matching the result to the audience you’re actually writing for.

Common projects:

  • LinkedIn posts and thought-leadership pieces drafted in AI
  • First-draft op-eds that need a human voice before submission
  • Internal memos, announcements, and reports that read too synthetic
  • Long-form personal writing (toasts, eulogies, statements) where AI was a starting point and something more is needed

I’m not anti-AI — I think these tools are remarkable, and I’ve taught workshops on responsible AI use to colleagues.

There’s also good research on how AI helps writers with disabilities and supports educational equity (Stanford, University of Maryland). The point isn’t to avoid the tools. The point is to make sure what reaches your reader sounds like you.

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