Literary Icon: Founder of Rosebud, now the third largest fiction and poetry publication in America, literary editor of Wisconsin People and Ideas and managing partner of Zelda Wilde Publishing, Lehman is an award winning novelist, playwright, biographer and poet. His fifth poetry book is Shorts: 101 Brief Poems of Wonder and Surprise.
Business Guru: An advertising and public relations innovator whose Midwest agency did work for Dow Chemical, W.R. Grace and Oscar Mayer as well as for many small businesses. His latest business success book is: Everything Is Changing—How to Gain Loyal Customers and Clients Quickly.
John (Jack) Lehman is a nationally published writer and poet with twenty years experience as a professional speaker and fifteen years as a creative director and senior copy writer for Midwest advertising agencies. He is a graduate of the Great Books Program at Notre Dame University and has a Masters Degree in Curriculum Development from the University of Michigan. John Lehman has presented seminars in dozens of cities throughout the country. He is a book reviewer, business columnist, poet and free-lance feature writer for magazines and newspapers.
His articles have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Popular Science, Omni and in more than fifty other trade/consumer publications. His plays have been presented in Madison, Milwaukee and in Saint Petersburg, FL. He was awarded the Bronze Star in Vietnam and established “Gear-Up Madison,” the largest and oldest non-competitive annual bike ride in Wisconsin. John lives with his wife, Talia Schorr, and their many dogs and cats in Rockdale, the smallest incorporated village in Wisconsin.
