About Henley Point

What is Henley Point?

The origins of Henley Point oversaw the production of the first website for a Canadian Member of Parliament, the first live webcast from Parliament Hill, and nationally-televised awareness-raising events.

Henley Point produces content, helps others develop and manage content, and runs content promotional campaigns. We produce and publish podcasts and internet streaming content, books and other print material, web content and related social media engagement, and we coordinate branding and merchandise strategies. Henley Point is fully integrated, with subsidiary ownership and affiliate partnership in a range of assets, including HCN Media, internet streaming stations, YouTube channels, merchandise production and website development.

By reaching a desired audience in measurable and lasting ways, our work is defined by Making Content Work! It doesn’t matter whether it’s an idea, a product, an election candidate, a social issue, a political or government relations matter, or a company, it’s all about content, and moving that content from its origin to its customer.

Henley Point publishes books in several nonfiction categories, including instructional and DIY, history, world faiths and social movements, and politics and governance. We produce a variety podcast formats, including commentary and narrative, news and current affairs, in-studio and remote interviews, and solo or co-hosted talk programs. Programs have focused on music, history, politics, internal corporate messaging, local and global affairs. The podcast productions have catered to monetization and non infrastructure, public vs subscription-based availability, spanning the spectrum of issue-specific and time-based programs (such as campaigns) to episodic and ongoing productions.

Steered by 3 principals and supported by 9 associates, Henley Point is a custom-services firm, offering combined experience from the communications, legal, public relations and publishing worlds, including successful advocacy applications spanning Canada’s Parliament and the United Nations, the corporate, non-profit sectors and academic sectors.

The Meaning of Henley Point: The name Henley derives from the Old English hēahlēah meaning ‘high wood or clearing’: A place from where one can see far and spread one’s efforts wide. There is archaeological evidence of people residing in Henley, England since the second century as part of the Romano-British period. In more recent history, Henley-on-Thames is a town and civil parish on the River Thames, located in the South Oxfordshire district, in Oxfordshire, England. Its namesake is also found in the moniker of a prestigious regatta held annually in that town. In Ontario, Henley is the name of a bridge at one terminus of the Queen Elizabeth Way, a regatta held annually in Port Dalhousie, and it also finds its place in the name of the first condominium complex in the Beach neighbourhood of Toronto, Henley Gardens – this latter instance being situated at the highest point at the juncture of the districts of Toronto and Scarborough and overlooking Lake Ontario along the greater Scarborough Bluffs shoreline; this location also serves as the administrative office and production studio for the company. Hence, the inspiration of Henley, as a name, and Point, as a location and a sightline of vision.

Who is Behind Henley Point today?

Principals

Steven Christianson – President & Chief Content Officer

With a career of experience spanning Canada’s Parliament and the United Nations, the corporate and non-profit sectors, Steven Christianson has moved ideas and issues to the center of public attention. By vocation, he is a Digital Media Producer with a specialization in public and government relations. He taught advocacy as an instructor with Toronto Metropolitan University for several years, and serves as volunteer strategic advisor on advocacy and government relations on the Board of Directors of Connect4Life. An avid podcaster, author of 7 globally distributed nonfiction books (including 1 Amazon Bestseller), a music connoisseur, a football fan, and father of one daughter, Steven has a Master’s degree in public policy, and lives in Toronto. Steven is also a Managing Editor of HCN Media, a division of Henley Point.

Read more about Steven at StevenChristianson.CA. Also check out Steven’s now-retired personal podcast, Before, Behind and Between.

Melanie Taddeo – Advisory Partner, Global Learning Platforms

Melanie Taddeo is the Founder and CEO of Connect4Life, a Canadian charity dedicated to creating inclusive, accessible opportunities in education, skills development, and employment for people of all abilities. As an educator, speaker, and Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) consultant, Melanie has dedicated her career to breaking down barriers and empowering individuals to reach their full potential.

As the first legally blind teacher in Ontario, Melanie brings both professional expertise and powerful lived experience to her work. She is a passionate advocate for accessibility and inclusion, working with communities, organizations, and institutions both in Canada and internationally to drive meaningful change.

Through her leadership, Connect4Life has developed innovative programs in broadcasting, life skills, job readiness, and wellness, helping individuals build confidence, independence, and pathways to employment, in Canada and abroad — including South Africa.

Melanie is the author and/or co-author of five books, serves as a part-time field instructor for Toronto Metropolitan University, and is the brainchild of Connect4Life Media Network, perhaps the most innovative online and digital platform for learning and skills development in a least a generation–a platform for which HenleyPoint provides exclusive content production and promotion. Melanie is also the Lead Editor of Content – Global Platforms for Henley Point, and lives in Mississauga, Canada, with her husband.

Mike O’Sullivan – Executive Lead & Managing Editor, HCN Media

Mike is the lead for HCN Media, an affiliate that produces news and educational content in video and podcast formats, with offices in Los Angeles and Toronto.

HCN Media is dedicated to a free press and universal access to information, and serves as the production home for Outtakes, Historic California News, and The Point.

Mike served as the West Coast Bureau Chief for Voice of America in Los Angeles for nearly 25 years until his retirement in 2023. A life-long radio broadcast journalist, Mike has also been a “ham” radio operator for more than six decades. Through his award-winning journalism, Mike has traveled to global crisis points to cover trade issues, riots, politics, poverty, natural disasters, and from the West Coast, Hollywood entertainment.

Mike has a Ph.D. in Comparative Religion and Social Ethics from the University of Southern California. He has taught at Gunma Prefectural Women’s University in Japan, San Diego State University and at other campuses of California State University.

Mike is also an author, father, videographer and audio technology enthusiast, and a seasoned globetrotter. He lives in greater Los Angeles.