Share your wisdom with Legacy Lessons

Your decades of hard-won wisdom are the secret to your company’s special sauce.

Document what’s made your leadership distinctive in a Legacy Lessons memoir, written for you.

Companies without succession plans lose market value and see lower returns.

Your guidebook for their future success integrates with ongoing transition planning – whether succession or sale.

 

About the Author

Choice Words founder Allison Chisolm asks questions for a living. A professional writer for 40 years, she has provided public relations support for corporate and financial organizations, higher education news publications, healthcare and medical content, and global manufacturing marketing and technical writing.

She established Choice Words/Chisolm & Co. in 1996. In addition to memoirs, her firm provides marketing communications to clients in business, education and healthcare organizations.

Ready to explore your past life experiences and leadership success, sharing that special sauce with future generations?

 

 

A memoir of success and lessons learned

Ready to share those valuable life lessons? That special sauce that created a successful company?

We offer a simple response.

Team up with a professional biographer to create a legacy lessons biography in as little as three months.

Together, we will

  • Organize your reflections
  • Map out chapters
  • Discuss your history
  • Detail your lessons.

The result?

A custom book, in your voice, for your employees, business associates, and family members to value and cherish.

We have a streamlined three-month process.

  • Initial conversation to determine scope of book, basic outline, illustration options and other background resources.
  • One interview, recorded and videotaped.
  • Draft produced for review within one month of interview.
  • Revisions – two rounds.
  • Layout with illustrations within month of approved copy.

 

 

 

Publication and distribution?  This depends on your choice of options: Print-on-demand, traditionally bound book, or a digital version.

The video of your interview can be used to promote the book and serve as an additional medium for your memoir. A QR code in the book links directly to it.

Schedule a private conversation today.

 

 

 

“You did a fabulous job.  With all of the letters and detail you gathered and sorted, interviews and research you did, you were able to pull it all together to produce a grand story of a very unique life… Thanks for your talent and labor on this biography effort.”

–Gail Morgan, retired president, Morgan-Worcester Inc.

“It’s a fascinating account of how many ingredients of effective leadership develop in the early stages of a career and then come together in a series of challenges and opportunities to yield ever-higher skills and achievements over time.” 

– James S. Demetry, Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, WPI

 

Schedule a private conversation today.

 

Critical Thoughts from a Lifetime in Business

Working collaboratively with biographer Allison Chisolm, we will

  • Discuss and prepare book outline
  • Gather all desired illustrations
  • Conduct and record your interview

We will produce for you:

  • Narrative copy ready for your review
  • Edited video recording of your Interview
  • Digital files of full interview and two shorter ones, edited to desired length
  • Final copy and illustrations prepared for print production

Standard pricing for Legacy Lessons $30,000

Advanced pricing for full biography $45,000

Premium pricing for multigenerational family chronicle $60,000

Please note: Print production costs depend upon final pagination and type of book selected

  • Hardcover
  • Softcover
  • Print on demand

Schedule a private conversation today.