Geoffrey Brewer is the Editorial Director of Gallup Press,
which includes books and the Gallup Management Journal. He
is the editor of The New York Times bestsellers
12: The Elements of Great Managing and How Full Is
Your Bucket?, which reached #1 on the business list. He also
edited the #1 Wall Street Journal and #1
BusinessWeek bestseller StrengthsFinder 2.0.
Brewer brings more than two decades of publishing experience to
Gallup Press. Most recently, he was editor-in-chief of Sales
& Marketing Management, a strategy publication for senior
executives, and a contributing writer on management for The New
York Times. In 1994, Brewer launched Performance, a
management quarterly. He was also a senior editor for Incentive
Magazine, a marketing publication, and managing editor of
Meeting News, a business-travel magazine.
Brewer is a seven-time recipient of the Jesse H. Neal Editorial
Achievement Award from American Business Media. While he was
editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management, the
magazine garnered a Folio: Magazine Award for Editorial
Excellence. He has been a frequent speaker on the topics of
management, sales, and marketing. From 1996 to 1998, he was a guest
lecturer on management topics at the School of Continuing and
Professional Studies at New York University.
Brewer received a bachelor's degree in English from Oberlin
College. He is based at Gallup's New York City office. Brewer lives
in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, Regan Solmo, and their son,
Henry.