•  Neal Boulton

About Neal Boulton

In 2006, after many years editing America's foremost health and fitness magazines ( Men's Fitness , Shape , Muscle & Fitness , Muscle & Fitness Hers ), Neal Boulton founded The Obesity Council, an organization focused exclusively on obesity-related research. Funded through private donations, The Council's program development--designed to help Americans and their communities get fitter--is co-sponsored by Ford, Everlast, McDonald's, Gold's Gym and General Mills. This year, Boulton completed The Council's first report on the 50 Fattest Public Schools and the relationship their shrinking health and physical fitness curricula and nutrition-poor school lunch plans has had on childhood obesity. Boulton has also developed The Council's first educational program. Scheduled to launch in September 2008, Knocking Out Obesity will travel to the 10 fattest public schools with a fat-fighting childhood boxing training program and equipment donated to each school by Everlast.

Today, with his new platform, Boulton is using his years of fitness and health knowledge as well as his continued access to media--he has appeared on The View, regularly on The Today Show, CNN's Fit Nation, 360 with Anderson Cooper, and CNN's American Morning --to make fitness more than an industry about abs and more of a movement that will get America fit.

NEAL BOULTON     
67 WALL STREET    
NEW YORK, NY 10005    
917.446.4249    
NEAL.BOULTON@GMAIL.COM

HEALTH & FITNESS ADVOCACY WORK

The Obesity Council
Founder & President
2006-present

· Founded organization exclusively focused on obesity related research and the development of programs that will help Americans and their communities get fit.
· Completed study focused on childhood obesity: The Fattest Public Schools in America.
· Upcoming programs: Knocking Out Obesity , a nutrition and fitness educational program that will visit the top 10 fattest public schools with fat fighting boxing training instruction and equipment for each school donated by Everlast.                                                           

HEALTH & FITNESS EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

Men's Fitness
Editor-in-Chief
2004- 2007
· Shaped a new editorial direction for the 2004 re-launch of the magazine.
· Notable Features: The Fittest and Fattest Cities and The Fittest and Fattest Colleges

Muscle & Fitness Hers
Editor-in-Chief
2005- 2006
· Shaped a new editorial direction for the 2005 re-launch of the magazine.

Sly
Editor-in-Chief
2004-2005
· Shaped the editorial direction for the launch of a new fitness magazine targeting men between the ages of 35-55 with Sylvester Stallone.

Weider Publications, Inc.
Corporate Development Editor
2004-2007
· Led the editorial re-launch of Shape (which resulted in a 6% increase in newsstand) and Natural Health (which resulted in a 10% increase in newsstand).
· Also responsible for overseeing the editorial direction of Fit Pregnancy and Muscle & Fitness

Weider Publications, Inc.
Corporate Creative Director
2003-2004
· Led cover creative and writing of Shape , Natural Health , Men's Fitness, Muscle & Fitness, and Muscle & Fitness Hers

The Los Angeles Times
Editorial Development Consultant
2003
· Shaped the editorial direction and design of a new outdoor fitness section for the LA Times called Outdoors.

Outside
Editorial Creative Director
1999-2000
· Helped shape new editorial direction, conceived stories, directed photography on location, and oversaw a redesign

OTHER EXPERIENCE

The Houston Chronicle
Editorial Development Consultant
2003
· Led an editorial reshaping and redesign with the new Editor In Chief Jeff Cohen.

LIFE
Redesign (for Time Inc. Corporate Development)
1998-1999
· Shaped a new editorial direction and design

Food & Wine
Redesign (for Time Inc. Corporate Development)
1997-1998     
· Shaped a new editorial direction and design

Garden Design
Associate Art Director
1997-1998

Architecture
Art Director
1994-1997
Associate Art Director
1991-1993

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Columbia University
The Graduate School of Journalism, New York
1998-2000
· Created and taught The Role of Design in Journalism

EDUCATION

Washington College
BA, International Relations
1989
· Scholarship winner for a 4 year creative writing program in addition to primary major
· Thesis: Politics, Prose and Poetry. The Vargas Years
· Notable Projects: Founder and Editor In Chief, GO. Magazine