The world isn’t fair, but that never stopped movers and shakers like Lucy La Grassa. Lucy had a conviction to let the world know that ‘kids have important things to say”. So she set out to provide a means for children to write books for other children.   Sounds like a familiar enough story today but this was disruptive back in 1989 when the publishing industry owned all the channels to market, the internet was not mainstream and kids were… well, not seen as valued creative content generators and consumers. But that didn’t stop Lucy. Tapping into her ancestral merchant genes, it’s not surprising that Lucy was compelled to navigate uncharted waters to build Storybook Publishing. Driven by a deep ethical responsibility to the children, Lucy was intentional in building her business and its partnerships on principles of diversity and inclusion.   In doing so, Lucy nurtured enduring relationships with partners including school boards, professional writers, banks, publishers and distributors, and airlines. No doubt these enabled not only Lucy and the partners to go far, but importantly all these creative children to shape who they became.

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Lucy La Grassa  linkedin.com/in/lucylagrassa / https://tec-canada.com/chair-profiles/chair-profile-lucy-la-grassa/

Build Up One Another

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