About Your Strategic Partner

Thank you for visiting my site. I’m Alex Bennett, a former corporate attorney, professionally trained editor, and experienced marketing strategist. In 2026, I’m launching a new chapter in my career to focus on helping organizations achieve their grant funding goals.

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The new adventure is a natural synthesis of skills I’ve developed over the course of my career. Most importantly, it reflects my urge to contribute to positive change in the world.

I started in law, first as a paralegal and then as a corporate attorney. I spent years working in environments where details mattered, deadlines were absolute, and complicated documents had to hold up under scrutiny. A corporate lawyer is a node in a tightly engineered network of disciplines: project development, financing, construction, regulatory compliance, accounting, tax, and more. I learned how to navigate in a complex landscape, and how to guide others through it.

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After almost a decade in corporate law, I acknowledged that I wanted a more creative direction for my career. I’ve loved writing since I first began scribbling stories at my desk in the third grade. It was a crazy idea, but the right one.

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In a nod to my photography hobby, I called my first freelancing venture Close Focus Editorial. I had trained professionally as an editor, but building a business meant learning another skill from the ground up: writing for a living. As a newly minted freelancer, I took high-volume, low-pay assignments to make ends meet. Churning out articles day after day, often on unfamiliar subjects and for demanding clients with little tolerance for errors, was a remarkably effective education in how to research quickly, write clearly, and deliver reliably.

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Editing remained at the heart of my work. I edited material for legal publishers, research organizations, nonprofits, businesses, and individual authors. That experience taught me to look beyond individual sentences and ask bigger questions. Is the argument clear? Does the structure work? Are the important ideas getting enough attention? Is there evidence for what the writer is asking the reader to believe?

 

Those questions translate naturally to grant writing.

 

When the opportunity came to join Red Mallard, a small content marketing firm, I found a place where I could expand those skills. Over the next several years, I served as chief content strategist, integrator, writer, editor, interviewer, process developer, project manager, budget builder, and a few other things besides.

 

Much of that work centered on persuasion. By interviewing executives and subject-matter experts, I learned about what motivates decision-makers in a diverse mix of industries, ranging from aerospace metallurgy to top-tier MBA programs. My job was to turn raw information into compelling narratives. Along the way, I managed teams and developed proposals, scopes, budgets, workflows, and quality standards.

 

I also led the firm's early adoption of generative AI, building customized tools to assist our small team with routine tasks. It’s a special thing to be part of the first generation to learn the powers and pitfalls of a new technology, especially in a professional context. The responsible application of AI has become one of my specialties.

 

In 2025, I launched Amplitude Strategic Communications and returned to independent consulting. A year later, I decided to focus that practice more deliberately on grant development.

 

Grant writing appeals to me because it brings together so much of what I have spent my career learning to do: research unfamiliar subjects, listen carefully to experts, identify the strongest argument, work within detailed requirements, coordinate complicated projects, and make every word earn its place.

 

It also gives that work a purpose I value.

 

I offer grant writing, funding research, editing, and related support across the funding process. I am especially interested in higher education and nonprofit work, while remaining open to organizations in other fields whose work creates meaningful value.

 

My goal is straightforward: use the skills I've built across law, editing, marketing, and business to help those who help others.

 

If that sounds like the kind of partner you're looking for, I'd be glad to connect.