Writing and Launching a Book to Boost your Speaking Business and Platform with Cathy Fyock & Saleema Vellani – May Chapter Meeting

My New Book: Writing and Launching A Book To Boost Your Speaking Business and Platform

Are you itching to write a thought leadership book but want to go about it strategically and intentionally? Join book coach, Cathy Fyock, and book launch strategist, Saleema Vellani, as they team up to create a powerful learning experience. This dynamic session combines Cathy’s knowledge of how to get a great book written quickly with Saleema’s expertise on how to build your author platform and amplify your message widely to meet your business goals.

About Cathy Fyock, CSP

Cathy Fyock, CSP, is The Business Book Strategist and works with professionals and thought leaders who want to write a book as a business development strategy. She is the author of eleven books, including On Your Mark: From First Word to First Draft in Six Weeks, and Blog2Book: Repurposing Content to Discover the Book You’ve Already Written, and The Speaker Author: Sell More Books and Book More Speeches, written with co-author Lois Creamer. Her book, Authority, is a Wall Street Journal best-seller. Her newest book is My New Book, a workbook she created with publisher Everett O’Keefe. She is also the editor for nine anthologies on HR and OD issues, with her most recent, Imagination@Work.

Through her creative energy, she helps her clients identify the right book to write, and develops a community of supportive, like-minded individuals who want to change the world–through the written and spoken word–one word at a time.

She has helped over 200 professionals become published authors.

As a professional speaker with the National Speakers Association, Cathy provides engaging programs and workshops to help audiences find their creative voice. She is adept in delivering high-engagement virtual programs as well as in-person workshops and retreats.

About Saleema Vellani 

Saleema is the Founder and CEO of Ripple Impact, a business accelerator that provides hands-on business strategy, marketing, branding, positioning, and sales support for corporate exitors and transitioning executives who want to build a purpose-driven business around their expertise. At the age of 21, Saleema co-founded and launched Brazil’s top-rated language school to finance an orphanage. She later co-founded a leading online translation agency to help companies expand their digital presence globally. She has co-founded nine ventures with three exits.

In 2017, she co-led an award-winning study at the World Bank on solving food insecurity in conflict-affected countries through climate-smart technologies. She has also contributed to impact evaluations and other research for various international organizations.

Saleema speaks on innovative leadership, entrepreneurship, and inclusive innovation. She also gave a TEDx talk at Texas A&M University on Innovation Starts With I in March 2021.

Saleema is the bestselling author of Innovation Starts With I that has won 3 awards to date. She has co-authored twelve publications in international development and has been featured in Forbes, CMSWire, and several magazines.