The TLI core team brings expertise in intellectual property development, identity, and marketing to the creation of your future. We also work with our own close community of leading web developers and strategists, publicists, speakers' bureaus, designers, ad agencies, literary agents and the world's leading publishers.
Gerald Sindell -- Founder [email]
Sindell guides leaders and organizations of all kinds to maximize their return on the most precious capital of all: their capacity. Whether it is the skills or idealism of a leader, or the enormous latent human capital typically underused in even the greatest organizations, becoming an innovative person or inculcating a culture of innovation in an organization is the best long term strategy for living a life or creating a thriving company.
FILM BACKGROUND: Sindell is an award-winning Hollywood film director receiving the Atlanta Film Festival's Silver Phoenix for his first feature-length picture Double-Stop, World's Best Feature Motion Picture, and is producer-director of Cinema Center's Harpy, which has reached cult status.
PUBLISHING: As a book developer, editor, and eventually founder and publisher of Tudor Publishing and Knightsbridge Publishing, Sindell has helped shape many books and careers, having put more than 75,000,000 books in print.
CORPORATE: The ideas and methodologies Sindell develops with his clients reach most of the Fortune 500 and the Global 2000 directly or indirectly. Whether breakthroughs developed in direct partnership with leading professional services organizations such as Accenture (on the first 3D realtime interactive simulation, Simplementation) or developing the ideas that thought leaders like Dean Brenner of The Latimer Group bring to key clients like United Technologies, the ripple effect of better ideas in the marketplace of ideas means that Thought Leaders Intl. clients are changing the world every day. From GE to State Farm, Alcoa to InBev, Yahoo! to Booz Allen, our clients provide thought leadership that improves lives.
Leanne Sindell -- Owner, Thought Leaders Intl./ Intellectual Property Management [email]
Ms. Sindell formed TLI/IPM, a literary agency, in 2007, focused on working with authors and organizations with something important to say. Among her early clients has been the internet giant Yahoo!, whose first book, Word Wise Web, the Yahoo! Official Guide to Style she placed with St. Martin's Press for world rights.
Leanne primarily represents business books, and she is also open to representing significant projects in other non-fiction areas.
BACKGROUND IN FINANCE: Prior to her work in publishing, Ms. Sindell was a licensed securities and commodities broker and held senior executive positions as a wholesaler in the financial securities and managed futures industry for more than 20 years. She was one of the top wholesalers in the U.S., raising billions of dollars within the independent broker/dealer community.
BACKGROUND IN DESIGN/ILLUSTRATION: Leanne took a hiatus from the financial world in the 1990s to attend design school at Studio Bercot in Paris. While there she apprenticed with Christian LaCroix, and Martine Sitbon among others. After graduation, Leanne designed for a private label firm in NYC. In her commercial illustration work she is represented by Langley Creative in Chicago. Her work was seen recently on Forbes.com.
