Bio

Brendan Vaughan is a leader of creative teams, a growth-oriented media strategist, and an innovative editor with more than 25 years of experience at some of the top editorial brands in America. He is currently Editor in Chief of Fast Company and has also worked at Insider Inc., Medium, The Atlantic, the Random House Publishing Group, Esquire, GQ, and Condé Nast Portfolio. He has managed teams of various sizes and compositions for the better part of two decades, from famous writers to up-and-comers, Boomers to Zoomers, entry-level editors to seasoned pros. His management style emphasizes transparency and prioritizes each person’s career growth, all while modeling his obsessive quality standards and coaching his staff up to meet them. He is highly adaptable to the kinetic world of digital media, and is fluent in the languages of product people, UX designers, data scientists, social-media managers, and marketing professionals. He is a sophisticated audience thinker with strategic experience finding and growing audiences via social media and traditional publicity outreach. He is a seasoned talent-whisperer who has been fortunate to work with creators of all kinds—investigative journalists, #longform maestros, novelists, essayists, visual artists, documentarians, tech visionaries, business luminaries, comedians, chefs, politicians, policy experts, and more—on content ranging from breaking news coverage to 10,000-word feature stories to video series to podcasts and just about every form of media in between. He is platform agnostic and just wants to do great work that helps companies meet their business and creative goals.