Quill & Current

Most consulting engagements come to an end. The questions don't.

After thirty-five years advising organizations, I noticed I kept returning to familiar conversations with different leaders in different rooms. Industries changed. People and circumstances changed. The underlying patterns didn't. Over time those patterns became frameworks, and the frameworks became books.

Quill & Current is where the thinking keeps going.

It's the publishing side of KVN Partners. It exists so that ideas which prove useful in the consulting work have somewhere to live once the engagement ends. Some of that writing is my own. Some of it belongs to a small number of authors we take on each year. All of it starts from the same belief that shapes everything else at KVN Partners. A good idea deserves to be seen clearly before it's put into the world.

The name reflects how I think about writing.

The quill is the craft. Slow, deliberate, shaped one sentence at a time. The current is what carries the work beyond its author. It's the conversation a book enters, the readers it reaches, and the steady influence it holds long after it leaves the desk.

Each year Quill & Current works with a small number of authors whose ideas invite thoughtful conversation. Founders and executives with a philosophy that has been forming for years. Families preserving a story that shouldn't be lost. Organizations marking a moment that matters. The projects vary. The approach doesn't. We pay close attention to what's already there and help the author see the shape of it before deciding what comes next.

Some of what we make together becomes a book. Some becomes an essay, a speech, a company history, or a legacy piece written to outlast the moment that inspired it.

The work is small in scale on purpose.

Not every project is a fit. We choose the books we believe should exist, and we give them the time they deserve.

Because a good book isn't published. It's returned to.