Bill Birchard is a veteran writer and journalist specializing in management, the environment, and social responsibility. He has been writing books and articles for 25 years.
Birchard's most recent book is Nature's Keepers (Jossey-Bass, 2005, 252 pages), the story of the Nature Conservancy, the largest environmental organization in the world. Other books include the award-winning Counting What Counts (Perseus Books, 1999, 307 pages) about the crisis in corporate accountability, co-authored with Marc J. Epstein; and The One-Minute Meditator (Perseus Books, 2001, 164 pages) about reducing stress and finding meaning in everyday life through the practice of meditation, co-authored with David Nichol, M.D.
During the past dozen years, Birchard has written for Fast Company, CFO, Chief Executive, Strategy + Business, and Tomorrow magazines. He has also been engaged frequently as a writer for other authors -- for book proposals, book writing, and editing. He worked for two years as a writer for Wordworks, Inc., a Boston-based book packager. For Wordworks, Birchard wrote about corporate strategy, health-care reform, and creativity. One of the books he drafted became a New York Times bestseller.
In 1988, Birchard was named editor of Enterprise, a quarterly business magazine for executives published by Digital Equipment Corporation. He remained editor for nearly six years, while Enterprise became recognized as a leading voice for contemporary management thinking.
Birchard has spoken nationally on syndicated radio talk shows and has appeared on Boston's WCVB-TV's Chronicle and New York's WNBC-TV's Weekend Today with Rob Morrison. Birchard spends much of his free time in the outdoors, hiking and canoeing, and has traveled widely in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America to remote and mountainous regions. He lives with his wife and two sons in Amherst, New Hampshire.
