Who We Are
For almost 20 years, FPR has represented Pulitzer Prize winners, 348 books on the bestseller list including 48 in 2025, 24 #1 bestsellers, and books by 33 of the Thinkers50 list of the world’s leading business thinkers including Jim Collins, Clayton Christensen, Seth Godin, Marcus Buckingham, and Amy Edmondson, journalists like Maria Bartiromo, virtually every publishing house, and the CEOs, founders, presidents, or chairs of Starbucks, Facebook, Alphabet, GM, Google, IBM, Tesla, Procter & Gamble, CVS Health, AT&T, Citigroup, Whole Foods Market, United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Home Depot, JetBlue, BP, Deloitte, Best Buy, Prada, Coach, AIG, Honeywell, Zappos, IDEO, Innosight, Nokia, Aetna, NASDAQ, Gallup, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, Hearst Magazines, The Atlantic Magazine, Dunkin Donuts, Texas Roadhouse, 7-11, Wikipedia, Yum! Brands, Loews Hotels, Royal Caribbean Group, Celebrity Cruises, Equinox, Life Time Fitness, Panera Bread, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Seventh Generation, Medtronic, The Container Store, Gilt Groupe, Reddit, StubHub, Siemens, Alcoa, Arconic, General Catalyst, Waze, Gensler, Investcorp, Korn Ferry, Kleiner Perkins, Kickstarter, Paychex, Guardian Life, MetLife, Compass, Twilio, a16z crypto, Okta, Snowflake, Nest, VMWare, Nielsen, Razorfish, SHRM, The Harris Poll, JWT, Putnam Investments, C3-AI, Floodgate, the Philadelphia 76ers (NBA), Brooks Running, Oaktree Capital Management, Delphi Capital Management, The Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems Company, Mandalay Entertainment, Jamba Juice, Salary.com, Cambridge Associates, The Conference Board, Cumulus Media, HubSpot, Headspace, Environmental Defense Fund, World Wildlife Fund, Conservation International, Russell Reynolds Associates, Summit Series, Stanford University and many others.
Our firm works on all kinds of nonfiction books and thought leadership, and in January 2020, our founder won the 2019 Porchlight Jack Covert Award for Contribution to the Business Book Industry because he built “one of the premier public relations firms in our industry.” He is the award’s sixth recipient (and first PR professional), following previous winners like Tom Peters and Seth Godin. Fortier PR has been a finalist in the PR Daily Media Relations Awards and The Drum Magazine Marketing Awards.
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Fortier PR was chosen by the PR Daily Awards for its 2024 “Top Agencies” List and has been a finalist in the The Drum Magazine Marketing Awards.
Among the #1 bestsellers Fortier PR has worked on are Bittersweet by Susan Cain, Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, Onward by Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, Tell to Win by Hollywood producer Peter Guber, Switch by the Heath brothers, the 4-Hour Workweek, the 4-Hour Body and the 4-Hour Chef by Tim Ferriss, and The One Minute Entrepreneur by Ken Blanchard. Many of the first-time unknown authors we’ve worked with are now well known bestselling authors who’ve returned to us for their next books.
In just the first half of our agency’s first year in business, five of our books hit The New York Times and/or Wall Street Journal bestseller lists and five of our authors appeared on the Today Show. This year alone we’ve had 31 books hit the bestseller list. Books we have worked on have won numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize, and the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, which is among the award clients we represent, along with the Queen Elizabeth Prize, which is presented at Buckingham Palace.
In addition to our individual author clients, Fortier Public Relations has promoted books by the CEOs, founders, presidents, or chairs of Starbucks, Facebook, Alphabet, GM, Google, IBM, Tesla, Procter & Gamble, CVS Health, AT&T, Citigroup, Whole Foods Market, United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Home Depot, JetBlue, BP, Deloitte, Best Buy, Prada, Levi’s, Coach, AIG, Honeywell, Zappos, IDEO, Innosight, Nokia, Aetna, NASDAQ, Gallup, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, Hearst Magazines, The Atlantic Magazine, Dunkin Donuts, Texas Roadhouse, 7-11, Wikipedia, JC Penney, Yum! Brands, Loews Hotels, Royal Caribbean Group, Celebrity Cruises, Equinox, Life Time Fitness, Panera Bread, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Seventh Generation, Medtronic, The Container Store, Gilt Groupe, Reddit, StubHub, Siemens, Alcoa, Arconic, General Catalyst, Waze, Gensler, Investcorp, Korn Ferry, Kleiner Perkins, Kickstarter, Paychex, Guardian Life, MetLife, Compass, Twilio, a16z crypto, Okta, Snowflake, Nest, Brooks Running, Oaktree Capital Management, Lockheed Martin, HubSpot, Environmental Defense Fund, World Wildlife Fund, Conservation International, Stanford University and many others.
Among the 25 #1 bestsellers Fortier PR has worked on are The Algebra of Wealth by Scott Galloway, Bittersweet by Susan Cain, Inner Excellence by Jim Murphy, Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, Onward by Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, Emotional Agility by Dr. Susan David, Tell to Win by Hollywood producer Peter Guber, Switch by the Heath brothers, the 4-Hour Workweek, the 4-Hour Body and the 4-Hour Chef by Tim Ferriss.
We have represented corporate clients like Accenture, Amazon, Anaplan, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Bain, Barnes & Noble, Booz & Company, Booz Allen Hamilton, Boston Consulting Group, Brunswick, Burson, CEB, Cisco, Cognizant, Deloitte, DHL, Edelman, Financial Times, Ford Motor Company, Fortune Magazine, FranklinCovey, Gallup, General Catalyst, Gensler, Gilt Groupe, Google, Goldman Sachs, Guardian Life Insurance, The Harris Poll/Stagwell Group, Harvard Business Review, Heidrick & Struggles, Hubspot, IDEO, Infosys, Ingram, Innosight, JWT, Kleiner Perkins KPMG, Levi’s, LinkedIn, Loews Hotels, Mayo Clinic, McKinsey, Mercer Consulting, Merck, Microsoft, MIT Sloan Management Review, Nielsen, Oaktree Capital Management, Okta, PepsiCo, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Prudential Securities, The Publicis Group, General Catalyst, Okta, Putnam Investments, Schwab, Seventh Generation, SHRM, Snowflake, Starbucks, strategy+business magazine, Stripe, WPP, Young & Rubicam and Zappos.