ILLUMINATION Success Stories
Editors of ILLUMINATION
The powerful minds and leaders behind the success of a significant publication on Medium
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams
As we embark on the next phase of our journey here at ILLUMINATION, I thought it a fitting time to introduce our editors, the key stakeholders and champions of our publication.
Our editors support ILLUMINATION writers and readers. They develop our processes and procedures and adopt technology for the betterment of our publication.
Our editors come from different professional backgrounds and have extensive writing, editing, and leadership skills. They bring expertise from multiple disciplines and enrich our diversity goal.
Even though each editor is unique with different skill sets, one common attribute among them all is how keen they are to support the success of our writers. As you know, publications on Medium do not generate income, hence all of our editors provide their services on a volunteer basis.
I admire the altruistic contributions of our editors.
Without further ado, I will introduce my role, and in no particular order, I will introduce a brief background and role of each editor on ILLUMINATION. I have provided some additional links for the further exploration of their backgrounds.
Dr Mehmet Yildiz — Founder —Chief Editor
I am the founder and lead editor of ILLUMINATION, with a vision and strategy explained in this invitation story. I am a senior technologist and cognitive scientist with 40 years of industry experience. I live in Australia and work for clients in multiple countries.
My main role is to set the strategies and orchestrate workflow for the success of the publication. As a published author, I have a strong affinity for writers and readers. Therefore, I undertake the responsibility of maintaining writer and reader communications.
My two key activities are sharing the progress of our publication via an editorial bulletin and the creation of daily distribution lists containing stories of 15,000+ writers. I also maintain the ILLUMINATION Highlights Newsletter distributed to 150,000+ subscribers.
Here is my detailed editorial profile posted by ILLUMINATION.
I also posted my writer profile.
Brian E. Wish, PhD — Consulting Editor
Brian Wish works as a quality engineer, college professor, military officer, and writer. He was born and raised in Irving, Texas, and graduated from the United States Air Force Academy.
After serving a little over seven years on active duty working as a cop doing law enforcement and security while spending time living in Italy, Korea, and Turkey, he went to work in the automotive industry in Michigan. Two years later he was finally able to return to Texas. A few years after going home, he transitioned to the aerospace industry.
He also started on a decade long journey to earn a PhD from the University of Texas at Arlington in Public and Urban Administration. He currently teaches part-time as an adjunct professor at the Tarleton State University in Mansfield, Texas. He has also continued his military career as a reservist.
More about Brian:
Brian’s favorite article:
Dr Ron Pol — Consulting Editor
Dr Ron Pol is a consulting editor of ILLUMINATION providing guidance on vision, discovery, strategy and legal matters.
Dr Pol is a former lawyer and leadership consultant, late-career PhD in policy effectiveness and outcomes.
The language of ‘outcomes’ and ‘effectiveness’ is commonplace, yet meaningfully distinguishing outcomes from easy-to-measure effort, activity and output targets (often mislabeled ‘outcomes’) remains surprisingly rare.
The consequence is that intended objectives (in crime prevention, health, education, housing, workplace safety, etc) often remain persistently unrealized.
Dr Michael Heng — Consulting Editor
As an Editor of ILLUMINATION, Dr Michael Heng writes about sustainability, corporate social responsibility (CSR), human resource management (HRM), strategy, politics, racism, talent management, blockchain technology, leadership development, wellness and Yijing (I-Ching).
Dr Michael Heng puts sustainability at the heart of his business. He envisions a brave new world with an abundant clean and limitless renewable energy future for all. Dr Michael Heng PBM has more than 35 years of senior management experience with local and foreign multinational corporations, including 14 concurrent years as a tenured Associate Professor with the Singapore Nanyang Technological University.
As a Sustainability Advisor, he was invited together with other international experts to the inaugural Hanwang Forum, which was created after the 2008 Szechuan earthquake, to form a permanent platform for collaborative action through transformative projects impacting the economy, the environment and society in China and globally for a sustainable, ethical and resilient society.
Dr Michael Heng was recognised on the National Day 2002 Honours List and awarded the Public Service Medal for community service by the President of Singapore. On different occasions, he has also received the Global CSR Leadership Award, the CSR Leadership Excellence Award and was also conferred the 2012 CSR Leadership Award. In 2019, he was conferred the Earth Care Award for “leadership in a business enterprise who promotes innovative eco-friendly alternatives for sustainable development”.
His Blue Leadership model embraces a natural partnership culture with the environment to bridge the nexus between sustainability and profitability to make them his twin business goals. Dr Michael Heng believes that embedding sustainability with economic value creation re-wires the business ecosystem by creating stakeholders’ value, build safer environment, healthy ecosystems and a stronger community.
Michael Patanella — Consulting Editor
Michael Patanella is a Trenton, New Jersey Author, Publisher, Columnist, Editor, Advocate, and recovering addict, covering topics of mental health, addiction, sobriety, mindfulness, self-help, faith, spirituality, Smart Recovery, social advocacy, and countless other nonfiction topics.
His articles, publications, memoirs, and stories are geared towards being a voice for the voiceless. Hoping to reach others out there still struggling. Mr Patanella has been prolific in his writings for many years, with currently over 600 publications on Medium.
With a vast history of endless work in self help fields, and experiences in the firefighting service, and emergency medical field, Michael has always found fulfillment through working hard to help other people however it is needed. All 600+ publications of Michael can be found on his main profile. He has also spent the last several months being one of ILLUMINATION’s most active Contributors. Mr Patanella is a consulting editor of ILLUMINATION.
Bill Abbate — Consulting Editor
Bill Abbate’s strengths include 50 years in business, building teams and companies, and heavily investing in personnel development. Bill has also fortified his own personal development, having literally read many hundreds of books on business, leadership, psychology and other such subjects.
He has coached and mentored hundreds of people through the years, with much experience in general business consulting, some of which he continues to do in retirement to a limited extent. Bill contributes to ILLUMINATION not only as an editor, but also through his daily writing, reading, and commenting on many articles on Medium and in a large number of Facebook and LinkedIn groups.
You can learn more about Bill Abbate from his writer bio and the interview I conducted with Bill.
Tree Langdon — Senior Editor
Tree Langdon is a writer and artist living on the West Coast of Canada on Vancouver Island. She’s an editor at ILLUMINATION because she wants to contribute to this diverse community. Tree loves to read stories that bring different perspectives to the conversation.
She has recently studied Archaeology and Forensic Anthropology, and is considering expanding into the sciences. She has a degree in Finance and her strong financial background is the result of being the Controller at a large college for 20 years. This management experience tightened her communication and negotiation skills.
If you ask her to review your writing, she will give you an honest assessment. Tree values the special editorial community within ILLUMINATION and works with the team to publish your stories as quickly as she can. You can learn more about Tree Langdon from her writer bio and the interview I recently conducted.
Joe Luca — Senior Editor
Joe Luca is a published author and avid reader who is never very far from the written or spoken word. Over 45 years in the business world have provided numerous opportunities for Joe to write creatively for newsletters, and blogs, as well as corporate and national magazines.
In addition to his work as a personnel trainer, Joe has written a number of training manuals in the mortgage and construction industries. In the early 1980's, Joe utilized his new role as a dad, to begin telling children stories to his daughters, eventually translating some of these stories into written form.
After publishing several stories in national children’s magazines like Child Life and Children’s Playmate, he moved on to writing poetry, short fiction, screenplays, essays and many other formats. He started writing and editing for ILLUMINATION since its inception and enjoys seeing new writers grow in confidence through their experience with the publication.
René Junge — Senior Editor
René Junge lives in Hamburg, Germany. He studied history and then worked in the wind power industry as an office worker for over fourteen years. If there are two constants in his life, they are curiosity and love of freedom. As a self-employed person, René has this under control today.
René is a published author. He spent seven years working on his first novel, which was published in 2012. He has now published over thirty novels and sold well over 200,000 e-books. On average, he published a new novel every two months, with an average of 50,000 words. In 2015 he started writing thrillers exclusively.
René reads everything he can get his hands on when it comes to the big questions of life and the connections in our world. As editor of ILLUMINATION René has a pivotal role in the timely publishing of stories submitted to the publication in the European time zone.
You can find more about Rene from his writer profile.
Aurora Eliam, CMP — Senior Editor
Aurora Eliam, Content Management Professional, is a full-time freelance writer & editor, animal sanctuary owner, and Mom to her son and animal rescues. She worked in broadcast journalism for eight years, with 5 of them spent at CNN, before embarking upon a communications manager career for the next eight years for various local and national organizations.
Today, Aurora works from home writing and editing in the Rocky Mountains, mentors other writers, runs a support group for others suffering from chronic pain and rehabilitates difficult to re-home animals.
She plans to start her PH.D. in psychology in August 2022. A voracious reader, Aurora spends her free time researching and diving into Native American history and culture. She has been writing on Medium for eight months and enjoys connecting and communicating with other ILLUMINATION writers.
More about Aurora:
Her all-time favorite article:
Paul Myers MBA — Senior Editor
Paul Myers is an eCommerce leadership professional, part-time writer, and editor. He lives in Dublin, Ireland with his fiance, Michelle, their two children, and their 3 dogs. Paul worked as an Engineer for 10 years before moving into the eCommerce sector 8 years ago, working with startups and entrepreneurs. Paul is part of an entrepreneurial leadership team that grew an online retailing business from €2 million to €10 million since 2012.
He is also part of a leadership team that grew a spin-out service business from concept into €3 million enterprise business today. Paul studied Communications in Ohio, USA, Engineering BEng, Digital Innovation BSc. (Hons.), Innovation PGCert, and an MBA in Dublin, Ireland. An avid reader, Paul spends his free time reading and researching topics of interest, such as leadership, business, marketing, and many others. He has been writing on Medium for seven months and enjoys connecting and engaging with other writers on ILLUMINATION.
More about Paul:
Paul’s favorite article:
Arthur G. Hernandez — Senior Editor
Arthur G. Hernandez was born and raised in West Texas. It is there when he began his study of leadership nearly 34 years ago, eventually creating a unique leadership and management training platform. He has worked as a manager for several companies over the past 26 years, utilizing his training skills to serve in the role as mentor and coach to dozens of management professionals throughout his career.
In addition to his role as a manager, Arthur served as newsletter writer and editor at several of the companies for which he worked. He has a passion for interpreting company data into easily digestible language to aid with understanding, to provide appreciation and recognition, and to kindle motivation. Arthur uses this skill to provide timely and insightful updates highlighting our publication.
Arthur is happy to serve as editor for ILLUMINATION and for the opportunity to help bring out the best in its writers.
You can learn more about Arthur G. Hernandez from his writer bio.
Kevin Buddaeus — Senior Editor
Kevin Buddaeus is an editor and writer for ILLUMINATION. He joined both Medium and ILLUMINATION in April 2020. Though he has worked as an editor, writer and translator since 2016, writing on Medium was a new endeavor for him. Kevin was recognized by Medium curators quickly and many of his articles were distributed to multiple topics.
As an editor, Kevin ensures that all articles fulfill the Medium rules and get published in a timely manner. He has since created our official Twitter account and automated posting of our stories to both the official Facebook and Twitter accounts, so your stories will be shared on social media as well, even if you don’t have an account for either one yourself.
Kevin is also active on our Slack channel, which is a great place to meet fellow writers and learn more. Please keep in mind the time zone difference, as he is located in Japan.
His motto is: “How you do something teaches me a way. Why you do something teaches me a reason.”
You can read about Kevin in his editor bio.
B. A. Cumberlidge. — Senior Editor
As a new editor of ILLUMINATION, Brian has a drive and passion that shines through. Brian is tech-savvy and champion for our YouTube initiative.
The good thing is that he has written about his experience, you can feel the true feelings and raw honesty of his content. In his defense, he does believe in being a metaphorical open book with nothing off-limits.
Since he joined Medium in January 2020, he has put the hard yards in to engage and embrace all that is available. His skill set is evolving & growing constantly. He likes to get stuck in.
You can recognise his leadership skills gained from being self -employed in the early part of the Millenium. Moving forward you can start to see why he was a Kitchen Manager for 8 years plus, spanning an 11-year catering career. I do believe Brian has aspirations to do free-lance content creating. He is aiming to start his Degree in Economics and Mathematical Sciences in September 2021 after completing an access course that is due to begin on 03/10/20 through Open University.
Learn more in B. A. Cumberlidge. Writers Bio.
Karen Madej — Senior Editor
Born in Oxfordshire, England, Karen followed her father into the corporate world of Telecommunications, rising through the ranks until she found her niche delivering new internet products and services into Scottish help desks. Now living in Scotland following eight years in Prague, Karen Madej has been an online English Language Coach to French business people for five years but currently, she is carrying out her ILLUMINATION editor activities on her mobile phone from a call centre during her breaks and on the bus journey to and from work.
The bonus is she works a rolling four days on and four days off, enabling her to do her preferred jobs of reading the work of as many new writers on ILLUMINATION and Medium as possible, clapping fifty times for everything she reads, including comments, engaging with the authors of amazing words that have made her feel and or impressed her, and if they aren’t already with ILLUMINATION, inviting them to come on over and join the most encouraging and diverse publication they’ll find on Medium. She also Tweets what she feels is particularly amazing from a writer’s article. She loves to help any English as second language writers with their proofreading.
Her vision for the publication is for writers of all skill levels from beginner to professional to continue joining, for us all to learn from each other how to be better writers, how to market our work to the world and be as successful as we dream of being. Personally, she is working towards writing and editing full-time next year.
Dipti Pande — Senior Editor
Dipti Pande is a writer and editor focusing on content curation on ILLUMINATION. Dipti has a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology, with seven years of experience working with parents, children and adolescents. She has an inclination towards Positive Psychology, i.e. focusing on well-being and developing strengths and resilience training.
Dipti was born and raised in India into a family of doctors. Her father is a surgeon and mother is an anesthetist. Her nature and interests are very much influenced by this upbringing. She has the emotional sensitivity of her mother and the kindness and empathy of her father.
Dipti is fluent in English, Hindi and Marathi and can understand and speak basic Japanese and Korean. She also has a bit of German.
Her goals include making the world a better place by changing how people view themselves.
Learn more about Dipti from her writer bio.
Kate Maxwell — Senior Editor
Kathy is a prolific writer and lifestyle blogger of ‘Lifestyle by Design’ at kathylum.com. She lives in the stunning city of Vancouver, in British Columbia, Canada.
Kathy has joined ILLUMINATION as an editor. She not only contributes to the publishing of our submissions, but also by improving the quality of content. Many of Kathy’s stories were curated so you can analyse her successes.
Her motto is ‘Vivez la vie pleinement’: Live life to the fullest.
You can find more about Kathy from her writer bio.
Geetika Sethi — Senior Editor
Writing — especially quotes, short stories, and poetry has been Geetika’s inherent passion since she was a little girl. Thus penning thoughts and viewpoints, each night from the heart before she slept, became a habit. Being a happy child that she was and still continues to have a sunny disposition, she grew up learning to see the good in every situation. Believing in nature, that after every dusk there is dawn, she wishes to spread positivity through her writings. Her words will be the key to your lock and her quotes will help you uncoat from within. With them, she truly wishes to inspire and motivate each one of her readers. And this chance got tweaked up since she was called upon to join ILLUMINATION as an Editor. With this new post, through writings she can help you Seek, Find & Create a life that’s dreamed , hoped and desired of by stepping into a journey of self-discovery in a Happy World.
You can connect with Geetika by clicking on her Medium profile.
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