Our Team

Julie Salisbury - CEO

Julie Salisbury - CEO

Julie Ann is the Founder of Influence Publishing Inc and a TEDx Speaker. In the last ten years she has published over 200 books and made over 80% of those International Best Sellers. She claims to be the worlds only Dyslexic book publisher and her TEDx Talk on “The Gift of Dyslexia” has had almost 100,000 views. She has been featured on British and Canadian TV, The Daily Mail, International Radio and Podcasts and conducted many inspirational speeches. She has won many awards including The Golden Gavel Speech contest, International Toastmasters, Woman of Worth Success and Soul, Unlimited Woman of Creativity and has been short-listed for The Canadian Business Excellence Awards 2021.

She is the Best-Selling author of “Around the World in Seven Years – A Life Changing Journey” that catalogues her journey around the world from 1998-2005 by sailboat, train, bus, and plane. She is a member of the New York Circumnavigators club as the slowest circumnavigator, travelling from the UK to South Africa, Tanzania, Dar es Salem, Zanzibar, Kenya, Seychelles, Maldives, Chagos (crossing the Indian Ocean by sailboat), Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Canada, the Baja of Mexico, and the Sea of Cortez, flying the final leg from Mexico City back to the UK. She presently lives in Puerto Vallarta at her retreat center, Casa de Influencia, which has been a lifelong dream of hers.  She is a dual citizen of the UK and Canada.

Anita Voth - Operations Manager

Anita Voth - Operations Manager

Anita is the mother of three wonderful young adult children and has been an entrepreneur for over 30 years. From starting a business in Adventure Travel to becoming a financial advisor and currently owning her own consulting business, Anita would sum herself up as a “Humanitarian with a Sense of Adventure”.

Over the past 13 years she has had the privilege of teaching many people in seminars and workshops, co-hosting a radio series on family and finance, hosting a talk-show for authors, and supporting other entrepreneurs in their businesses. She has also published two ebooks and over the past 10 years she has also volunteered and sat on several non-profit boards including Shape Your World Society.

Anita is a certified NLP Master Practitioner and has spent the last 15 years focusing on her own personal development through a variety of courses and programs. All of this experience together makes her an excellent operations manager and Julie often refers to her as her “left brain”.

Tara Eymundson - Graphic Designer

Tara Eymundson - Graphic Designer

Having had a life-long passion for art, Tara Eymundson began her design career in the printing industry, acquiring experience creating graphics, layout and typesetting, and in-depth knowledge of the technical aspects of printing. She then switched to the publishing industry working with a team of artists, writers, editors – designing art and fashion magazines.

She also gained experience working in marketing, web design and designing display ads for online media. Her abundant and diverse experience makes her the perfect book cover designer and she is a much appreciated member of the team. Tara lives in Kelowna is the mother of two wonderful children. When she is not working, Tara loves spending time outdoors enjoying the beautiful lake and being in nature.

Danielle Anderson - Managing Editor

Danielle Anderson - Managing Editor

An avid reader from a young age, Danielle Anderson has a gift for the technical side of the English language. When she was approached to edit magazine articles for a freelance writer in 2007, she jumped in and has never looked back. Editing books was a natural progression. When it comes to working with authors on their manuscripts, her focus is not only to polish their work technically, but to help each writer fully develop their own unique voice. 

Lee Robinson

Lee Robinson

Lee Robinson has always had an affinity for personal expression and the written word, drawn particularly to poetry and spoken word in her teenage years. She developed a natural eye for written details, grammar, and creative storytelling during her eleven years running a human rights protection and advocacy team in Cambodia, which required ongoing writing and/or proofreading of media statements, proposals newsletters, annual reports, and social media content. Lee also produced creative advocacy videos and trained partners on creative storytelling through various mediums.

In 2018, Lee applied her skills as a proofreader for Influence Publishing. Treating each manuscript as though it were her own, she is guaranteed to find the smallest of errors, ensure consistency in grammar, spelling and style, and return the manuscript ready for typesetting.