Judith Briles

Are you ready to create a book that you have no regrets with?
MBA, DBA
Professional Coach & Speaker, Business Coach

Judith Briles is the co-founder of Mile High Press, Ltd., a small press that has published 10 titles(www.MileHighPress.com), founder of companies and organizations including: The Briles Group, Inc., a Colorado-based research, training and consulting firm (www.Briles.com); The Book Shepherd (www.TheBookShepherd.com), a company that coaches authors to create, strategize, develop, publish and achieve success with their books; the Author U (www.AuthorU.org) is under construction, an association dedicate to the serious author who wants to create quality books and achieve financial success; and a partner with the WebinarMentor.com, a company dedicated to the design and delivery of webinars.

She routinely coaches clients who are in the beginning stages of their books to implement an over-all plan to achieve book success to authors who have completed manuscripts and planning their next step. Judith Briles is known as The Book Shepherd. She knows publishing through the wearing of multiple hats: award-winning publisher (multiple first place awards for business, how to and publishing technology (printing, lay-out and cover design) and author (Chicago Tribune’s Business Book of the Year, Colorado Book of the Year). The books of her clients routinely win awards in multiple publishing and author contests.

In 2007, she launched Judith's Publishing Salons, one-day intensives for authors and publishers in the areas of Newbies, Intermediate/Advanced, PR/Media, Speaking, Story Telling. PowerPoint Presentations and Webinars.  She is internationally acclaimed as a speaker and recognized as an expert in solutions to workplace issues.

Judith is an award-winning author of 27+ books, including:  Stabotage!™ How to Deal with Pit Bulls, Skunks, Snakes, Scorpions & Slugs in the Health Care Workplace, Zapping Conflict in the Health Care Workplace, The Confidence Factor: Cosmic Gooses Lay Golden Eggs, Stop Stabbing Yourself in the Back, Woman to Woman: From Sabotage to Support, Woman to Woman 2000: Becoming Sabotage Savvy in the New Millennium, Money Smarts for Turbulent Times, Smart Money Moves for Kids and 10 Smart Money Moves for Women. Her first book, The Woman’s Guide to Financial Savvy was published in 1981 by St. Martin’s Press. To date, her books have been translated in 16 foreign countries. Show Me About Book Publishing will be released in late 2010.

Her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time, People, USA Today, Self, The New York Times and People magazine.  She has been a frequent guest on national television and radio and has appeared on over 1000 programs, including CNN, Oprah and Good Morning America.  Judith writes regularly for a variety of publications.

She is a former President of Colorado Independent Publishers Association (CIPA) and was honored with its Life Time Achievement Award; the Colorado Author’s League and is a past director of the National Speaker's Association; Gilda’s Club-Denver; The WISH List; the Women’s Bank and the Colorado Women's Leadership Coalition. 

Colorado Biz magazine has named one of her companies as a Top 100 in Colorado.   She was named the Woman of Distinction by the Girl Scouts of America.

Keywords: book publishing, book coaching, book shepherd, author, self publish, independent publishing, book coach, author coach

Location: Denver, Colorado
Languages Spoken: English
Phone: 303-627-9179
Website: www.TheBookShepherd.com
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