Jeannie Ballew, Owner

As a coach, Jeannie is an especially adept listener able to deeply intuit the heart of a client’s vision and goals.  She then helps the client articulate those into a coherent plan.  She can easily shift between the forest and the trees, keeping big picture structural organization in mind yet managing the details with dexterity.  As an editor, she is able to take on “beginner’s mind” and put herself into the shoes of an author’s potential reader, thereby providing insightful information that is often obscured to the author.  She is also able to take wordy, redundant, or choppy prose and tighten it up to read smoothly and succinctly.

Jeannie has been teaching, training, and coaching English since 1987 when she completed her master’s degree in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages).  She has taught writing at the college level, in corporate settings, and in manufacturing environments.  Jeannie has also designed and developed a dozen seminars on writing and other communication skills.  She has extensive writing experience and is at work on her third novel.

Clifford Scholz, Assistant Editor

Clifford brings a discerning eye and a deft hand to editing.  He has worked as a professional editor for a Chicago-based company, MBA Exchange, for the past six years.  His primary strength is intuiting the purpose of the writer and bringing clarity to the language and structure of any piece of writing while staying true to the writer’s voice and style.  A long-time writer and poet himself, Cliff offers reflective, spot-on feedback to efficiently bring his clients' writing to a highly polished state.

Clifford has a Bachelor’s Degree in English, a Master’s in Education, and six years of full-time experience teaching Language Arts at the secondary level.