Leslie Nunn Reed has more than twenty years of experience in marketing, promotion, and communication development and management. She has consulted with several for-profit and non-profit organizations and direct sales companies in planning total communication programs and campaigns, in addition to implementing strategies and new concepts. For a select number of authors, Leslie has served as content developer and literary agent. She has been instrumental in the launch of successful licensing programs for The New York Times bestselling books The Prayer of Jabez™ and Secrets of the Vine™ by Bruce Wilkinson as well as for bestselling author Max Lucado’s Traveling Light and He Chose the Nails.

The Vice President of the publishing consulting firm Publishing Directions, Inc. in Washington, DC, Leslie worked for six years with numerous clients in producing magazines, brochures, annual reports, and advertisements. She managed various circulation programs and media plans and helped launch two national titles for Thomas Nelson Publishers; she was the Associate Publisher of Today’s Better Life magazine and the Advertising and Circulation Director of A Better Tomorrow magazine.

Prior to forming Nunn Communications, Inc., she was the Product Marketing Manager for Nest Entertainment (now NestFamily.com), a producer and marketer of children’s animated videos. There she created new products, television infomercials, commercials, catalogs, product packaging, direct mail campaigns, and telemarketing programs. During the theatrical release of Nest’s full-length feature film, The Swan Princess, Leslie planned public relations and media events and coordinated product licensing for retail merchandise of the movie characters. She also served as the Director of Product Development, managing licensing programs and helping launch a robust e-commerce site.

She was the Managing Editor of Possibilities, an international publication produced on behalf of the Crystal Cathedral Ministries and Dr. Robert Schuller, with a readership of 750,000, where she interviewed celebrities, business professionals, and sports figures and supervised the editorial and design staff. Her numerous articles and cover stories have appeared in magazines, newsletters, and newspapers.

She recently served as the Director of Marketing for the Women of Faith conferences, which have appeared before more than 2.5 million women across North America. In 2004 the event visited 28 cities with 30 conferences and was experienced by 360,000 women.

Leslie is motivated by impact, influences by offering suggestions, and thrives on making connections between those with needs to potential resources for meeting those needs. She enjoys entertaining, travel, lounging at the beach, and reading. Current titles on her bedside table include: Parenting from the Inside Out, Gilead, the Bible, Primal Branding, and several book manuscripts.

Leslie holds the B.A. degree in Sociology and Communication from Wheaton College (Illinois). She lives with her husband and two sons outside Dallas, Texas.