Faculty Leaders

Alice LaPlante

lecturer in the Mastery in Communication Initiative at the Graduate School of Business

Alice LaPlante is a writer and teacher of writing with more than 20 years experience as an award-winning journalist, corporate editorial consultant, writing coach, and university-level writing instructor.  

Alice is an award-winning fiction writer. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, and teaches creative writing at both Stanford and San Francisco State University. The author of five books (and counting), Alice includes among her publications Turn of Mind (2010), a writing textbook, Method and Madness: The Making of a Story (2009); Playing For Profit: How Digital Entertainment is Making Big Business Out of Child's Play (2000); and Passion to Profits: Business for Non-Business Majors (2008).  

She has written for Forbes ASAP, BusinessWeek, ComputerWorld, InformationWeek, Discover, and a host of other national publications. Alice has a B.A. in Rhetoric and an MBA from the University of Illinois in Urbana.