You already know what you need to do. You need someone who can help you make it happen.
Christian publishers and nonprofits do important work — and most of them are leaving opportunities on the table. Not for lack of talent or dedication, but because the day-to-day crowds out the strategic. The publishing model that worked ten years ago doesn’t work today. The co-publishing deal or licensing arrangement that could open a new revenue stream never gets explored because no one has the bandwidth. The new workflow that everyone knows is needed keeps getting deferred. The new initiative that could reach people who need to hear your message stays on the whiteboard.
You don’t need someone to tell you your mission. You need someone who understands it from the inside — someone who can help you act on the opportunities in front of you before the moment passes.
I’m Scott P. Richert. I’ve spent thirty years in publishing and nonprofit leadership — as executive editor at Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, as the most-read Catholic writer on the web as About.com’s Catholicism Expert (250 million pageviews over ten years), as publisher at Our Sunday Visitor, and as the representative of the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Estate for English-language publishing rights. I’ve built editorial teams, restructured workflows, negotiated international licensing agreements, and helped organizations move from “we should do something” to “it's done.”
I work with apostolates, publishers, and Church leaders and organizations as an advisory consultant — not a freelancer, not a vendor, but a partner who brings thirty years of pattern recognition to the challenges your organization faces.
What Working Together Looks Like
I take on a small number of clients at a time so I can give each engagement the attention it deserves. That usually means working together over a period of months, with a clear understanding of what we’re trying to accomplish and how we’ll get there. If you’re not sure where to start, a one-day intensive can help us identify the highest-leverage opportunities — and whether a longer engagement makes sense.
These are the kinds of problems I can help you solve: editorial and publishing strategy; workflow and operational effectiveness, including how to use AI in a human (and humane) way; institutional positioning, co-publishing and licensing opportunities, and the gap between knowing what you need to do and actually being able to accomplish it.
This is the conversation you’ve been wanting to have. Let’s talk.