Meet John Boochever
Founder, ProRight
John Boochever spent three decades as a partner at two of the world's leading consulting firms, where clear, persuasive writing was the job. As a founding partner of Oliver Wyman, he built and led the firm's global Digital and Technology Strategy practice and served on its management committee. Earlier, at Booz Allen Hamilton, he led the Information Systems business across Europe and the Middle East and served on that firm's management committee as well. Strategy presentations, board materials, client deliverables, published articles: writing that moved busy executives to act was the core of his work for over 30 years.
In recent years, John has advised select minority- and women-owned consulting firms and education-focused enterprises on business development, operating models, and institutional scale. He is a guest lecturer at Washington College, where he teaches writing and communication.
John chairs the Smithsonian's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and is a Commissioner Emeritus and former Vice Chair of the National Portrait Gallery. His family endowed the Smithsonian's triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, now a cornerstone of contemporary portraiture in America. He previously served as an elected trustee of Cornell University and continues to serve on the Advisory Council of Cornell's College of Arts & Sciences. He holds advanced degrees from Johns Hopkins SAIS and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and graduated with distinction from Cornell.
“The best professional writing doesn't sound 'professional.' It sounds like a clear thinker who respects the reader's time.”