He is CEO of Brand Tasmania,[1] a co-founder of Story Engine and Places are People,[2] and has published several bestselling novels.

[3] The Garneau Block was later adapted for the stage by Canadian actress and playwright Belinda Cornish, premiering in September 2021 at the Citadel Theatre, in Edmonton.

[4] His screenplay The Great One, co-authored with Jason Margolis, won a Praxis Screenwriting Fellowship.

It was shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour and won the Georges Bugnet Award for best work of fiction by an Alberta author.

In October of 2021, McClelland and Stewart will publish Babiak's next book, The Spirit's Up,[7] a Christmas novel, in Canada and the United States.