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Steve Leveen is the chairman and co-founder with his wife, Lori Granger Leveen, of Levenger (the Levenger Company). The former CEO of the company, Leveen retired from that role in 2014 and shortly after that was named a Fellow of the Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) of Harvard University. Leveen is examining multilingualism in America, which will be the topic of his next book. Levenger, the company that Leveen established in 1987, designs and sells high-quality, functional products designed to help readers and writers. The company's specialty publishing arm, Levenger Press,〔(Levenger Press )〕 focuses on high-quality facsimiles of historical manuscripts from the Library of Congress, the Morgan Library & Museum, The New York Public Library, and other institutions. Leveen's first book, ''The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life,'' was published in 2005. Among the publications that featured it were The New York Times Book Review, the Christian Science Monitor, the Boston Globe and the Miami Herald. The book was named a BookSense pick by the independent bookstores of America, and its author was part of a panel presentation at the 2005 Miami Book Fair International. It was also the basis for a series of workshops Leveen conducted for companies such as Starbucks and Target, and that focused on finding more time to read the books that mattered. Leveen's second book, ''Holding Dear: The Value of the Real'', was published in 2013 and includes original essays from guest contributors Patti Smith, David McCullough, Ann Patchett, Joseph Finder, David Allen, Kevin Kelly, and Paul Saffo, among others. Leveen frequently blogs on topics related to the Well-Read Life for the Huffington Post. He has had his articles on the human side of technology published in The New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times. He holds a B.A. in Biology from the University of California, San Diego, and master's and doctoral degrees in sociology from Cornell University. Leveen serves on the board of the National Book Foundation and, through the Levenger Foundation, supports the organization's Innovations in Reading〔"NBF Board Member Steve Leveen Talks About Innovations in Reading." National Book Foundation eNewsletter, January 2013〕 initiative. He also serves on the board of the Conscious Capitalism organization and is an advisor to the Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County, where he helped establish the charity bike ride, Loop the Lake for Literacy. He is active in the Young Presidents' Organization-World Presidents’ Organization,〔(YPO-WPO )〕 where he serves in various education roles. Leveen is also a member of WPO’s resource bureau for CNBC.〔("Global Entrepreneurs: Ambassadors of World Peace." CNBC Guest Blog, November 19, 2012 )〕 Leveen is a founder of (Loop the Lake for Literacy ), an annual bike-a-thon fundraiser for the Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County (Levenger is headquartered in this Florida county). ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steve Leveen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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