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• Clients & Testimonials

COMPANIES
McKinsey Global Institute, an independent economics think tank
Harvard Business School Publishing, a major business book publisher
Global Business Network, leading scenario-planning consultants
Spencer Stuart, executive recruiters
Heidrick & Struggles, executive recruiters
Booz Allen Hamilton, strategy consultants
Jossey-Bass, publishers

NONPROFITS 
The Bridgespan Group, the nonprofit consulting arm of Bain & Company
FSG Social Impact Advisors, nonprofit CSR consultants
Civic Ventures, a nonprofit focused on aging and civic engagement
Taproot Foundation, a nonprofit focused on volunteering

INDIVIDUALS 
Heather McLeod Grant and Leslie Crutchfield, nonprofit consultants
Thomas Parenty, information security consultant

TESTIMONIALS
"Mickey is a fine writer and a first-rate business editor. He is timely, hard-working, highly professional, and thoroughly reliable. Mickey has broad knowledge of management and business issues, as well as international economics and economic policy. He was a pleasure to work with, and MGI would not hesitate to hire Mickey again if the need arose."
Diana Farrell, Director, McKinsey Global Institute

"As first-time authors of a book, we were aided enormously by Mickey Butts. Mickey helped us structure our initial outline, sharpen our thinking, and refine our prose. He held our hand at every stage of the writing process, and took our manuscript to a higher level. He was a delight to work with: professional, timely, and willing to work within our deadlines and budget. We’d highly recommend him as a writer, editor, and thought-partner."
Heather Grant McLeod and Leslie Crutchfield, coauthors of Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits (forthcoming in fall 2007 from Jossey-Bass)

"Mickey is a delight to work with — calm, competent, realistic, on time and budget — and talented. And he really gets business, which is hard to find."
Nancy Murphy, head of communications, editor-in-chief, and a member of the management team, Global Business Network

"Mickey is great at developing writing projects and at working with writers to help them do their best work."
Jesse Wiley, editor, Jossey-Bass, an imprint of John Wiley & Sons

"Mickey Butts is an incredible writer who helped us conceive of our earliest outline and draft of the manuscript. His contribution to distilling and organizing our thinking was crucial to getting our arms around the hundreds of potentially disparate ideas and hypotheses we were originally considering."
James Citrin and Richard Smith, executive recruiters at Spencer Stuart and authors of the bestselling book The Five Patterns of Extraordinary Careers

"Mickey Butts provided valuable editorial assistance during the formative stages of my book."
Thomas Parenty, information security consultant and author of Digital Defense