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David Allen's speaking fee falls within range: $50,000 to $75,000
For over thirty years David Allen has been researching the optimal strategies for personal and organizational productivity and passing on his expertise to some of the world’s most important professionals and organizations. CEO of his own eponymous company, Forbes has recognized him as one of the top five executive coaches in the United States, and Leadership Magazine ranks him as one of their “Top 100 Thought Leaders.”
David Allen has written three books: Getting Things Done: the Art of Stress-Free Productivity (described by TIME magazine as “the defining self-help business book of its time”), which is available in 28 languages, Ready for Anything and Making it all Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life.
David Allen’s unrivaled insight into time and stress management, management methodology and attaining executive peak performance led to Fast Company describing him as “One of the world’s most influential thinkers.”
David also has a wildly popular podcast named GTD. These podcasts will support you at every stage of your GTD practice. You will hear interviews with people from all walks of life about their journey with GTD, from beginners to those who have been at it for years. You will find ways to introduce GTD to a friend, family members, even kids and teens. The podcasts includes episodes on everything from making changes stick, to overcoming procrastination, and ways to optimize your GTD system.
David Allen is an author, consultant, international lecturer, Founder and Chairman of the David Allen Company. The David Allen Company is a productivity training and consulting company that provides services designed to increase performance, capacity and aligned execution. They count among their clients some of the world’s most prestigious corporations, including over 40% of Fortune 100 companies.
David Allen is widely recognized as the world’s leading authority on personal and organizational productivity. His thirty years of pioneering research, coaching and education of some of the world’s highest-performing professionals has earned him Forbes’ recognition as one of the “Top five executive coaches” in the United States, and as one of the “Top 100 thought leaders” by Leadership Magazine.
Fast Company hailed David Allen “One of the world’s most influential thinkers” in the arena of personal productivity, for his outstanding programs and writing on time and stress management, the power of aligned focus and vision, and his ground-breaking methodologies in management and executive peak performance. The American Management Association ranked him in the top ten business leaders in 2014.
David Allen is the author of three books; the international bestseller, Getting Things Done: the Art of Stress-Free Productivity (popularly known by the brand shorthand of GTD®), Ready for Anything, and Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life. Getting Things Done has been a perennial business bestseller since it’s publication in 2001, and is now published in 30 languages. TIME magazine heralded Getting Things Done as “The defining self-help business book of its time.”
GTD has an international following of adopters in corporate enterprises, institutions and entrepreneurs. It has given rise to a thriving GTD industry of websites, blogs and software applications. Internet searches bring up tens of millions of references. David Allen is a rarity in the Twitter world, as one of the few non-celebrities with over a million followers hanging on his informative wit and inspiration. PC Magazine noted him as one of the “Top One Hundred to Follow” on Twitter.
David Allen shows his audience how they can increase their productivity simply by better management of their attitude to what is going on around them. He explains that it is very easy to become rapidly stressed in a work environment: "All the stuff piling up in your e-mail inbox and in baskets while I'm speaking right now, all of that now floods into your psyche, and that can easily create a sense of being overwhelmed, a sense of confusion, a sense of conflict; every single thing seems to demand an equal kind of attention from you." Demonstrating that most of us blame our stress on a lack of time instead of looking for the real culprit, he tells us: "Well, I'm sorry, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, Einstein, Mother Teresa, they all only had 24 hours! Johann Sebastian Bach only had 24 hours–I know he didn't have e-mail but he had 20 kids… and you say ‘just give me 2 more hours, please…’ You know what you would do with 2 more hours? You would have 2 more hours of overwhelm and stickiness."
David Allen brings his expertise in the field of productivity to a series of keynotes which will set you thinking in a whole new way about how you manage your time, your workflow and your employees.
The key to David Allen’s philosophy is not to work harder but to work smarter; he gives speeches on such subjects as The Key to Relaxed Control and The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. Using his unparalleled breadth of research and experience in coaching some of the world’s top executives and corporations, he will show you how you can smooth out your productivity flow, increasing your efficiency and reducing your stress at one and the same time. When you leave one of David Allen’s speeches, you will be ready to, in the words of one of his topics, Get Things off Your Mind and Get Them Done instead.
Creating Order Out of Chaos—Staying Afloat in a World of Too Much to Do
The world is not coming to us in a neat little package–it comes from multiple levels from myriads of sources, with no rhyme nor reason as to how it appears to us. And it continues to accelerate, in ever greater volume. The solution is not in having more time, but having more space–more room to think creatively and strategically, and to be more present and appropriately engaged with what’s most meaningful to us. We need to be clear-headed in order to navigate and negotiate the changes and surprises that are coming toward us with increasing frequency.
There is a way to manage this, to surf on top of it, and to feel invigorated with the opportunities instead of overwhelmed with the challenges. There is a set of behaviors that allow us to stay clear and focused, amidst it all. But we are not born doing these practices, and they don’t show up by themselves. They are not difficult to implement, but they do require directing and training some “cognitive muscles”–ways to think about our “stuff”–and utilizing an effective and trusted personal system for staying in control.
David will explain the five critical steps for getting anything more in control and focused, with specific best practices and tools for each phase. He will share the best practices that he has tested and implemented in thousands of hours spent desk-side with some of the brightest and busiest people in the world. And, he will pass on many techniques that anyone can implement immediately, to gain greater stability, clarity, and, (yes!) time to engage with what really matters.
Getting Projects Off Your Mind and Moving - Why Natural Planning is Not Normal
Mastering the Art of Work
What's On Your Mind? How to Stop Unproductive Thinking and Get Things Done
Leveraging Focus and Vision - Harnessing the Power of Imagery in Life and Work
Ready for Anything
The Five Keys to Mastering Workflow
Managing Commitments- the Key to Relaxed Control
Getting Things Done: the Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Making Change Stick-the Two Magic Ingredients
The Zen of In-Basket Maintenance
“I am a devout, card-carrying GTD true believer. I got hooked 15 years ago… and the entire approach has boosted not only my productivity but also my wider well-being. But what amazes me just as much is how deeply GTD has taken hold around the world. Unlike the short-term, confected virality we often see in the digital age, this is a genuine movement… one that has already improved lives and will continue to improve many more.” —Daniel Pink, Author
“The GTD system has opened up doors in my life, both personal and professional, that I did not know were possible. It has shaped my way of living and continues to help me be as innovative and creative as possible. Most importantly, it helps me be strategic and efficient so I have more time to do the things I enjoy—like spending time with my family and coaching/sport development with volleyball, baseball, and snowboarding.” —Jeff Boliba, Burton Snowboards
“Getting Things Done offers help building the new mental skills needed in an age of multitasking and overload.” —Sue Shellenbarger, The Wall Street Journal
“GTD allows me to be present and to show up fully in the moment.” —Louis Kim, Hewlett Packard (HP)
Aerospace/Defense General Electric Jet Propulsion Labs Lockheed Martin Los Alamos National Labs NASA SAIC
Consumer Goods Adidas Clorox General Mills , Inc. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters L.L. Bean M&M Mars Nestle Nike Pitney Bowes Ralston Purina Sony The Coca Cola Company
Consulting/Business Services Accenture Arthur D. Little Deloitte Touche KPMG McKinsey & Company
Education Babson College Emory University Georgia Tech College of Management Georgetown University Harvard University Mt. Holyoke College Stanford University University of Kansas University of Massachusetts University of Texas USC Marshall School of Business
Financial Services American Express Bank of NY Mellon Edward Jones Company Fidelity Investments First Union National Bank Investco Visa World Bank
Healthcare Baystate Health Systems Blue Cross /Blue Shield Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Humana Massachusetts General Hospital Novartis UK National Health Service WellPoint Health Systems
General/Industrial BMW Canadian National Railway DuPont Herman Miller John Deere Mead Westvaco Moen Monsanto Phillips Petroleum
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Information Technology Bluecoat Cisco Hewlett Packard IBM Infosys Invensys Lotus Development Microsoft Corporation Oracle Qualcomm Sapient Siemens Sun Microsystems Xerox Yahoo!
Insurance American Automobile Association (AAA) Integrated Insurance John Hancock Met Life New York Life Insurance Company Zurich
Media/Communications British Telecom Comcast Houghton Mifflin Knight Ridder Lucasfilms Nextel Pitney Bowes Turner Broadcasting Washington Times QVC
Non-Profits American Red Cross Boston Museum of Science The East-West Institute
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Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life The long-awaited follow-up to The New York Times bestseller Getting Things Done.
David Allen’s Getting Things Done hit a nerve and ignited a movement with businesses, students, soccer moms, and techies all the way from Silicon Valley to Europe and Asia. Now, David Allen leads the world on a new path to achieve focus, control, and perspective. Throw out everything you know about productivity—Making It All Work will make life and work a game you can win. For those who have already experienced the clarity of mind from reading Getting Things Done, Making It All Work will take the process to the next level.
David Allen shows us how to excel in dealing with our daily commitments, the unexpected, and the information overload that threatens to drown us. Making It All Work provides an instantly usable, success-building tool kit for staying ahead of the game.
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This eagerly awaited follow-up to Getting Things Done is guaranteed to find an audience in today’s competitive business environment and among David Allen’s many fans.
Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done In his bestselling first book, Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen presented his breakthrough methods to increase efficiency. Now “the personal productivity guru” (Fast Company) shows readers how to increase their ability to work better, not harder—every day. Based on Allen’s highly popular e-newsletter, Ready for Anything offers readers 52 ways to immediately clear your head for creativity, focus your attention, create structures that work, and take action to get things moving.
With wit, inspiration, and know-how, Allen shows readers how to make things happen—with less effort and stress, and lots more energy, creativity, and effectiveness. Ready for Anything is the perfect book for anyone wanting to work and live at his or her very best.
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity In today’s world, yesterday’s methods just don’t work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to tens of thousands of people across the country. Allen’s premise is simple: our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve effective productivity and unleash our creative potential. Since it was first published almost fifteen years ago, Getting Things Done has become one of the most influential business books of its era, and the ultimate book on personal organization. “GTD” is now shorthand for an entire way of approaching professional and personal tasks, and has spawned an entire culture of websites, organizational tools, seminars, and offshoots. In 2015, David released an updated edition of the original “manual” for GTD, with detailed overviews, examples and coaching advice to get your system up and running. This revised 2015 edition also contains new material on the rise of digital technology in our always-on world, and recent cognitive science research that validates the GTD methodology.
From core principles to proven tricks, Getting Things Done can transform the way you work, showing you how to pick up the pace without wearing yourself down.
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