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Innovative thinking creates value,
commands respect, generates influence,
advances careers and improves the bottom line.


Thought Leadership Services LLC
assists clients in presenting their ideas
to public and professional audiences.

Thought Leadership Services, LLC ("TLS"), is a sole proprietorship owned and run by Phil Carson,
an award-winning journalist with four decades’ experience.

TLS offers writing and editing support to produce bylined, point-of-view articles, case studies,
white papers, reports, speeches, and other content for print, online and spoken formats.

TLS offers expert content creation and support. TLS does not offer production services.
TLS works directly with the client to produce a successful project.
TLS charges by the hour. Contact us for details.

TLS clients typically are subject matter experts who have been invited to contribute articles, papers, op-eds, case studies, speeches or other content to mainstream and industry publications and conferences.

TLS clients work primarily in the electric power and renewable energy fields, as well as in related fields such as computing, data networking, telecommunications, and cybersecurity.

TLS clients include:

  • Siemens North America

  • Siemens Germany

  • General Electric

  • Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

  • Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative

  • Electric Power Research Institute

  • Smart Grid Interoperability Panel

  • Interprose PR

  • Pennwell Publishing

  • Spirae

  • Utilities Technology Council

  • Water Research Foundation

TLS highlights

  • Editorial contributions to Smart Grids: Advanced Technologies and Solutions (CRC Press, 2018) and
    Big Data Application in Power Systems (Elsevier, 2018)

  • Authorship of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Annual Wind Report (2018) to the International Energy Agency, under the auspices of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

  • Editorial contributions to The White House’s Quadrennial Energy Review (2015), under the auspices of a U.S. Department of Energy partnership with the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

BIO FOR PHIL CARSON

Phil Carson is a Denver, Colorado-based journalist, editor, author and project manager with four decades’ experience. He has served as a content developer, executive editor, managing editor, and reporter in daily, weekly, monthly and long-term formats for online platforms and print publications. 

Carson earned a master’s degree in science writing/editing and feature writing at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in 1991. He earned his undergraduate degree in environmental sciences from the University of Denver in 1984.  

Carson has authored or co-authored five books, including:

·       Working for the Man, Playing in the Band: My years with James Brown (Toronto: ECW Press, 2018) with Damon Wood

·       Fort Garland Museum: A Capsule History and Guide (Denver: Colorado Historical Society, 2005)

·       Roy Buchanan: American Axe (San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2001)

·       Across the Northern Frontier: Spanish explorations in Colorado (Boulder: Johnson Books, 1998)

·       Among the Eternal Snows: the first recorded ascent of Pikes Peak, 1820 (Colorado Springs: First Ascent Press, 1995)

Carson’s freelance work has appeared in Backpacker, Colorado Business, The Colorado Magazine, Cross Country Skier, The Denver Post, Essays & Monographs in Colorado History, Guitar Player, High Country News, Mushing, Steamboat Magazine, Vail Magazine, and Vintage Guitar, among others.

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