Joel Schettler is a writer and editor in Minneapolis, who writes about business issues, education, and the arts for various national magazines and newspapers. He is currently the editor of Greenspring Media Group’s custom publishing division.

Schettler began his career as a reporter at weekly and daily newspapers in his home state of Nebraska and later in Minnesota. As a reporter, he covered a variety of topics including city and state government, politics and the arts. While still a student, Schettler took part in an award-winning supplement that examined rural environmental issues. His early work covering education was published in area daily papers, including the Lincoln Journal Star, and the Omaha World Herald.

Leaving newspapers for a career in magazine journalism, Schettler worked as an editor on business publications serving such diverse industries as retailing, engineering and law enforcement. Prior to joining Greenspring Media Group in 2003, he was a senior editor at Training magazine, a monthly business publication that covers human resources executive management issues related to maximizing workforce potential. There, he interviewed leaders from such companies as Capital One, Target and Federated Department Stores, and influential business thinkers such as Annie McKee, John Seely Brown and Marcus Buckingham. Some of his feature story topics included a look at the demands of training procurement professionals inside the Department of Defense; and thoughts on the future of technology from insiders at Microsoft, Oracle and Sun Microsystems.

Schettler’s work has received numerous awards from the Minnesota Magazine and Publications Association: best regular column (2002, 2005), best business magazine (2003, 2005), and for writing the best technical article (2005, 2006). The Midwest Society of Association Executives awarded his feature story in Meetings magazine with the President’s Choice Award for Editorial Excellence in 2004.

Schettler is a graduate of the University of Nebraska, earning bachelor’s degrees in English and journalism. He also holds a master’s degree from the University of Minnesota, which focused on sociology and the business of magazine publishing. In 1999, Schettler attended the American Business Press Publishing/Editorial Management Institute at Northwestern University, conducted by The American Business Press, along with Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management and Medill College of Journalism.

Joel Schettler lives in Minneapolis with his wife and their two cats. 

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