Kevin Maney

Kevin Maney joined consulting and design firm VSA Partners in 2011 to build a practice that can marry business to big-think journalism in a way that helps both prosper. The first example of his collaboration with VSA is a book commissioned by IBM and co-authored by Maney and veteran tech journalists Steve Hamm and Jeff O’Brien. That book, Making the World Work Better, was published in June 2011. More than 500,000 copies are in print in seven languages.

In 2009, Broadway Books published Maney’s book  Trade Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don’t. It ranked No. 1 for innovation on Amazon.com, broke into the top 500 of all Amazon’s books and has enjoyed notable success in Japan.

Maney also authored The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson Sr. and the Making of IBM (John Wiley & Sons, 2003). It received positive reviews in The Economist, BusinessWeek, The New York Times and other publications around the world. The BBC made it into a documentary. In 1995, Maney penned the BusinessWeek bestseller Megamedia Shakeout.

In addition to writing books, Maney has contributed to Fortune, Fast Company, and other major business and technology publications. He was a contributing editor at Conde Nast Portfolio, joining the magazine prior to its launch in 2007 and working there until its demise in April 2009. He has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, PBS, NPR, CNBC, and other broadcast outlets, and is frequently a keynote speaker and on-stage interviewer at events and conferences.