Business Writer + Editor

“Over the past three decades, Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin has written for and edited a wide variety of print and online publications. In the 1990s, as editor of PM Network, the  membership magazine of the international Project Management Institute, her interviews with management gurus Tom Peters, Margaret Wheatley, William Bridges and Daniel Goleman set a new standard for in-depth business reporting in the monthly, and were translated and republished around the world. Thanks to her gift for finding the human drama and strategic issues in even apparently mundane or technical subjects, Cabanis-Brewin received PMI’s highest individual honor, the Distringuished Contribution Award, in 2007 for career contributions to the project management profession.

As Editor-in-Chief of PM Solutions Research (formerly The Center for Business Practices) since 1999, Cabanis-Brewin oversees the development, writing, editing and dissemination of original business research in the form of research reports, blogs, articles, online newsletters, books, white papers and ebooks. Her online columns, Personal Best, published 2001 – 2009 for the Best Practices e-Advisor, are being collected into a book, Beyond Personal Best, forthcoming in 2012. She is the primary writer for the company’s series of books, published by CRC Press, a division of Taylor & Francis.

At the same time, in her freelance career, she has edited (with Paul C. Dinsmore) the second and third editions of The AMA Handbook of Project Management, a classic text first published in 1990. In its second edition, the Handbook received the 2007 David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award from the Project Management Institute and has been translated into Brazilian Portuguese. She serves as a subject matter expert/reviewer for manuscripts in the project management list for AMACOM Books, the imprint of the American Management Association.

Other freelance work has included essays and feature articles in Smoky Mountain Living Magazine, articles for business websites such as Planview.com and Developer.com, scripts for instructional videos, newspaper supplements and newsletters promoting nonprofit organizations,

Poet + Essayist

From the back cover of Patriate, the 2007 winner of the Longleaf Press Open Chapbook Competition:

“Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin is one of the most profoundly gifted poets I have had the good fortune to find sitting across from me in a workshop. Her work combines an ear for the nuances of language and the breadth of thought that comes from wide reading and careful attention to the world around us. This collection heralds the beginning of a poetic journey that will take her and her readers into terrain both beautiful and challenging.”

~ Kathryn Stripling Byer, former Poet Laureate of North Carolina, and author of Wildwood Flower, Black Shawl, Coming to Rest, Southern Fictions and many other volumes of poetry