Your Story Opens Doors
A leadership memoir is a powerful strategic asset—revealing not just what you built, but how you think and what you value. It is the bridge to your next chapter.
Great memoirs are team efforts. A leader brings the life; a professional brings the perspective. Together they turn decades of experience into a story people want to follow. And that story becomes the foundation for everything that comes next.
Let’s put your story to work.
I’m Niles Howard, and I spent 25 years as a senior editor at leading publications, including Inc. and Money, covering the leaders who built American business. My writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Fortune, CFO, Bloomberg, and other major venues—work that taught me how to spot the story inside the noise.
You’ve built the life; I shape the meaning. Together, we take the decisions, pivots, risks, and hard-won perspective that carried you this far and turn them into a narrative with real force. Something clear. Something true. Something that opens doors a résumé can’t.
Readers come for the insight, stay for the inspiration.
Powerful leadership memoir books are more than victory laps. They’re equal parts clarity, confession, and course correction. Long roads, wrong turns, and unexpected moments of grace. They hit the human notes—risk, grit, luck, loss, recovery. That’s what makes them unforgettable.
“You turned my ideas, journey, and insights into a far better book than I could have written alone.”
— Bob Campana, author of Don’t Look Down!, a 2025 Amazon best-seller
Why writing about yourself is so hard.
Most books don't fail from a lack of material. They collapse under the weight of indecision, frustration, and the dreaded 2 AM death spiral. Even experienced writers get too tangled up in their own history to see what’s truly interesting. That’s why virtually all leadership memoirs are written with named or unnamed collaborators.
I bring the fresh eyes needed to spot the big arcs, the oddball moments, and the buried gems. We turn detours and lucky breaks into a narrative that keeps readers up past midnight and forces them to feel something.
I help you find the story hiding in plain sight.
In weekly recorded conversations, I ask the questions that knock loose forgotten moments, dangerous ideas, and the occasional jewel hiding behind a filing cabinet in your memory.
Then I sift through the chaos for the themes that hold it all together.
Your battles, left turns, and hard-won lessons become a story with structure, and a reason for readers to care.
That’s leadership on the page.
Your memoir sets up the next phase of your journey.
Publishing a book moves you from success story to storyteller, from builder to author. It strengthens your personal brand, deepens your credibility, and opens doors you didn’t know existed. It changes how people see you, and how you see yourself.
If you can spare a few hours a week, I’ll deliver a publisher-ready manuscript in less than a year. Clear, compelling, and built to last.
The process begins with a consultation.