In late 2009, Lesley Williams launched Major Street Publishing, specialising in books on personal finance, business and investment and offering publishing services to authors, educators and self-publishers in these areas. Lesley has over 20 years publishing experience, in both global corporations and privately-owned companies.
Lesley worked at John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd, for seven years, initially as Publisher and then as General Manager of the Professional & Trade Division where she published best-selling authors such Steve McKnight, Margaret Lomas, Alan Hull and Ashley Ormond to name only a few. Lesley also worked to develop publishing partnerships with The Australian Financial Review, The Australian Stock Exchange, Fairfax, CMC Markets, Vanguard Investments and Wilson Asset Management. In her role as a GM at Wiley Lesley was a part of the Global Leadership team, working with Wiley business publishers globally. She was also responsible for the local publishing of the highly successful For Dummies brand and the local Wiley business list.
Throughout 1990s, Lesley was a director of Melbourne investment and personal finance publisher, Wrightbooks. During this time she worked with popular sharemarket investing and trading authors, Daryl Guppy, Martin Roth, Louise Bedford, Alan Hull; wealth creation and personal finance authors Austin Donnelly, Tim Hewat and Barrie Dunstan; real estate investing authors Steve McKnight, Margaret Lomas and Dr Peter Waxman; tax and superannuation authors Barbara Smith and Ed Koken and Nick Renton. Popular books commissioned by Wrightbooks, such as the Taxpayer’s Guide and Top Stocks have been published on an annual basis and are still in print 17 years later.
Major Street Publishing works with other professionals with expertise in business publishing to produce top quality publications.
New book sheds light on the passion and politics behind Australia’s $1.3+ trillion super industry
