Hire James Butcher as a speaker
Senior managers need to re-energise and inspire their teams in hybrid-working environments. You can engage me to speak at departmental meetings, away days, or editorial board meetings.
Editorial board meetings
Editorial board meetings are an opportunity to engage a journal’s editorial team with the strategic challenges that it’s facing.
I can provide unique insights — drawing on my extensive experience as both an editor and a publisher — that challenges and inspires.
Possible presentation titles include:
- The changing scholarly publishing landscape
- Developing a journal portfolio strategy
- AI and scholarly publishing
- How to create impactful journals
- Editorial leadership through commissioning
In-house seminars
Journalology presentations can either be didactic, in the form of a seminar, or can be interactive using a workshop format.
A guest speaker can provide an outside view that challenges a team to think in new ways. Crucially, the speaker needs to have credibility to effect change.Â
I can speak credibly on the following topics:
- Incentivising editorial teams
- How to run editorial board meetings
- Launching new journals
- How to develop an effective transfer strategy
- Lead and lag indicators to measure performance
A Journalology presentation does three things
Educates
Journal editors and publishers are facing significant external challenges. Staff working in all departments need to understand how the publishing landscape has changed over time, so that they can make good strategic and tactical decisions in the future.
Challenges
The best seminars challenge the audience to think in new ways. After all, received wisdom can create blinkered thinking. An independent viewpoint can help break the status quo and help a team to be open to new ways of working.
Inspires
A speaker needs to understand the audience's worries and concerns if they are to inspire them to step up and take action. As VP of the Nature journals James Butcher led a team of 500 editors and publishers; he’s at home with EiCs as he is with the C-Suite.
How does it work?
Three simple steps to create an impactful event
Book a discovery call
We will use this 30 minute session to find out what you are hoping to achieve with the event and to discuss the logistics.Â
Collaborate on an outline
Together we will agree on an outline for the slide deck. You will have a chance to review and approve the final version of the presentation.
Enjoy the event
Your team will leave the event educated, challenged and inspired. They may even laugh a little too.
Send me a message about your event
I’m happy to answer any questions that you may have.