World's Top 30 Time Management Professionals for 2024

Guru #1

Carl Pullein

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Guru #2

Frank Buck

Frank Buck helps busy professionals achieve their goals through organization and time management. He is a veteran school administrator, speaker, author of three books, weekly newspaper column writer, blogger, and life-long learner. Most of all, he has shown countless professionals an easier way to navigate life. Through his workshops, Dr. Buck shares these secrets with leaders all across the United States and internationally. Attendees love the blend of content and humor. They especially love how practical and easy it can be to get organized. Dr. Buck’s newest book, the 2nd edition of Get Organized!: Time Management for School Leaders presents a total system which is applicable to leaders from all walks of life.

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Brian Tracy

Brian Tracy is Chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, a company specializing in the training and development of individuals and organizations. Brian’s goal is to help you achieve your personal and business goals faster and easier than you ever imagined. Brian Tracy has consulted for more than 1,000 companies and addressed more than 5,000,000 people in 5,000 talks and seminars throughout the US, Canada and 70 other countries worldwide. As a Keynote speaker and seminar leader, he addresses more than 250,000 people each year. He has studied, researched, written and spoken for 30 years in the fields of economics, history, business, philosophy and psychology. He is the top selling author of over 70 books that have been translated into dozens of languages. He has written and produced more than 300 audio and video learning programs, including the worldwide, best-selling Psychology of Achievement, which has been translated into more than 28 languages.

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Guru #4

Damon Zahariades

Productivity expert Damon Zahariades is owner of ArtOfProductivity.com, a site devoted to showing you how to hack your day to get more things done. He wasn’t always productive. Damon spent many years in Corporate America, dragging himself to ridiculous meetings and enduring the impromptu “drive-by” visits of his coworkers, before striking out on his own. Today, he owns his own content marketing agency and creates action guides that show others how to boost their productivity.

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Guru #5

Tim Ferriss

Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company‘s “Most Innovative Business People” and one of Fortune‘s “40 under 40.” He is an early-stage technology investor/advisor (Uber, Facebook, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ others) and the author of four #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including The 4-Hour Workweek and his latest, Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers. The Observer and other media have called Tim “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, which is the first business/interview podcast to exceed 200 million downloads.

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Guru #6

Fawn Germer

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Fawn Germer is the personification of the heroine we see in movies. She has gone against the odds, she has been rejected and put down and yet, she has triumphs over her environment. She is an advocate woman in leadership and has compiled the wisdom, insight and leadership strategies from more than 200 famous women leaders for her new book Pearls. Her philosophy through her six books is one of adaptability and an ever-changing skills set. Fawn Germer is a bestselling author and four-time, Pulitzer Prize nominated journalist who has written for The Washington Post, U.S. News and World Report, and The Miami Herald. Fawn Germer deals with what it takes to be a great leader today and is an Oprah Winfrey must read author. As a speaker she is dynamic, energetic and inspirational. She is well known in North America but has had substantial international exposure.

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Guru #7

Greg McKeown

Greg McKeown has dedicated his career to discovering why some people and teams break through to the next level—and others don’t.

The definitive treatment of this issue is addressed in McKeown’s New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less.  As well as frequently being the #1 Time Management book on Amazon, this book challenges core assumptions about achievement to get to the essence of what really drives success.

McKeown is the CEO of McKeown Inc. Clients include Adobe, Apple, Google, Facebook, Pixar, Salesforce.com, Symantec, Twitter, VMware and Yahoo!.

His writing has appeared or been covered by The New York TimesFast Company, Fortune, HuffPost, Politico, and Inc. Magazine. He is among the most popular bloggers for the Harvard Business Review and LinkedIn’s Influencers group: averaging a million views a month.

McKeown has been interviewed on numerous television and radio shows including NPRNBC, FOX, and as a regular guest on The Steve Harvey Show. Entrepreneur voted his interview at Stanford University the #1 Must-See Video on Business, Creativity and Success.

Essentialism was voted by Goodread as the #1 Leadership and Success Book to Read in a Lifetime.

McKeown is an accomplished public speaker. He has spoken to hundreds of audiences around the world including in Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, China, England, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan and Singapore.

Highlights include speaking at SXSW, interviewing Al Gore at the Annual Conference of the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland and receiving a personal invitation from Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway, to speak to his Annual Innovation Conference.

McKeown challenges conventional wisdom in a unique and engaging style from the first moment to the last instant. As the event organizer at Greater Public said after McKeown addressed their 1,000-person conference, “I have been part of this event for 16 years and McKeown is the best speaker we have ever had!”

McKeown is an active Social Innovator. Serving as a Board Member for Washington D.C. policy group Resolve and as a mentor with 2 Seeds, a non-profit incubator for agricultural projects in Africa. He has also been a speaker at non-profit groups including The Kauffman Fellows, Net Impact and Stanford University: he recently gave back to Stanford University by co-creating a popular class called, Designing Life, Essentially.

He serves as a Young Global Leader for the World Economic Forum.  He recently moderated a session at the “Summer Davos” in China called, “Unpacking Social Innovation Models for Maximum Impact”, served as a panelist at the “Sharpening Your Creative Edge” working session at the Forum.

Prior to this, McKeown collaborated in the research and writing of Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter and worked for Heidrick & Struggles’ Global Leadership Practice assessing senior executives.

Originally from London, England, McKeown now lives in Calabasas, California with his wife, Anna, and their four children. He did his graduate work at Stanford University.

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Guru #8

Maura Thomas

Maura Nevel Thomas is an award-winning international speaker, trainer, and author on individual and corporate productivity and work-life balance, and the most widely-cited authority on attention management.

She helps driven, motivated knowledge workers control their attention and regain control over the details of their life and work. Maura has trained tens of thousands of individuals at thousands of organizations on her proprietary Empowered Productivity™ System, a process for achieving significant results and living a life of choice.

Maura’s clients include the likes of Google, Old Navy, L’Oréal, and NASA, although businesses in the $50mm-$200mm range are a specialty. She is a TEDx speaker, successful entrepreneur, and author of six books on the topics of attention management and personal and organizational productivity. She is a media favorite, featured in hundreds of national business outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, US News and World Report, and the Huffington Post. She also is a regular columnist for both Forbes and the Harvard Business Review.

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Guru #9

Anna Dearmon Kornick

Anna Dearmon Kornick is a Time Management Coach, wife and mom who helps busy professionals master time management so they can stop feeling overwhelmed and start spending time on what matters most.

Anna believes that success and stress don’t have to go hand in hand, and that busy is NOT a badge of honor.

As the host of It’s About Time – A Podcast about Work, Life and Balance, Anna shares time management tips, productivity strategies and real-life advice to help her listeners make the most of their time. In addition to teaching actionable takeaways, Anna interviews other go-getters to find out how they navigate family, friends, fulfilling careers and full schedules.

Building on more than a decade of experience in the fast-moving, high-stakes world of political and crisis communications, Anna knows a thing or two about using time well. Early in her career, she served as the chief spokesperson for a Lt. Governor, and managed the hectic schedule of a U.S. Congressman. She’s helped small business owners, nonprofits, political candidates, Fortune 100 companies and executives tell their stories and focus on what matters most.

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Guru #10

Dave Kahle

Dave Kahle is one of the world’s leading sales authorities. He’s the author of 12 books, including 11 Secrets of Time Management for Salespeople, and How to Sell Anything to Anyone Anytime. He writes a weekly Ezine for salespeople; and has presented in 47 states and eleven countries. As a salesperson, he was the number one salesperson in the country for two different companies in two totally distinct industries. For over 25 years, he’s been President of Kahle Way(r) Sales Systems, a sales training/consulting company. In that capacity, he’s trained tens of thousands of salespeople and sales managers.

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Guru #11

Neen James

Neen James, is an attention expert and leadership expert who delivers high-energy opening keynotes that show leaders how to profit by paying attention. She’s an Australian obsessed with helping leaders profit by paying attention so they can create more significant moments in life that matter. Audiences love her practical strategies they can apply at work and home. Neen’s fun, Aussie-ness makes her a sought after keynote speaker that meeting planners love – they often describe her as the energizer bunny for their events. With a strong background in learning and development and managing large teams at various corporations, Neen is the perfect fit for organizations wanting a presenter to provide implementable strategies to save time, increase focus and help their people get more done. Clients including Comcast, Cisco, Virgin, Pfizer, FBI and BMW describe Neen as authentic, energetic and passionate. Neen regularly provides one-on-one consulting and mentoring on topics productivity, thought leadership and women in leadership. Neen often appears in the media sharing leadership expertise and is a published author of eight books, including Folding Time, Secrets of Super-Productivity, Strategic Networking and Network or Perish. She earned her MBA from Southern Cross University, Certified Speaking Professional designation from National Speakers Association, received numerous awards in her industry, is a partner in the international education company Thought Leaders Global, and in her spare time serves on several Boards.

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Guru #12

Kevin Kruse

Kevin Kruse is a New York Times BESTSELLING AUTHOR, and entrepreneur who has used a relentless focus on Wholehearted Leadership, employee engagement and Extreme Productivity to build and sell several, multimillion dollar technology companies, winning both Inc 500 and Best Place to Work awards along the way. Kevin is also the author of several books including Employee Engagement 2.0, 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management, Employee Engagement for Everyone, Text Me! Snap Me! Ask Me Anything! and the NY Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller, We: How to Increase Performance and Profits Through Full Engagement, which was named one of the top leadership books in 2011 by 800-CEO-Read. Kevin writes regularly as a contributor for Forbes.com and Huffington Post, and has published over 100 articles for various publications on topics related to leadership, engagement and entrepreneurship. He delivers keynotes to audiences around the world.

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Guru #13

Michael Hyatt

Michael Hyatt is a virtual mentor who has written numerous articles and books, and been featured in Businessweek, Fast Company, Forbes, Inc., The New York Times, Success and The Wall Street Journal, to name a few. His big piece of advice? Don’t focus on a negative. When you set your goals and clarify the life changes you want to make, focus on who you do want to be and what you do want to achieve, because your goals are, ideally, where your attention will be focused. For example, if you want to stop smoking because you can’t get fit and stay healthy and your goal is to quit smoking, all you think about and focus on is smoking—and that’s dangerous for your ability to succeed. Instead, you need to frame this in a different way and make it about what you do want. For example: “I want to be healthy enough to run in the half marathon for work in spring.” For this to happen, quitting smoking is a critical first piece of the puzzle, but it’s not your focal point. Being who you want to be is. This also focuses your attention not on the past, but on the present and immediate future. In this way you don’t spend all your time obsessing on who you used to be, or where you’ve been. Hyatt sees this as the secret to succeeding, and, judging from his social following, millions agree.

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Guru #14

Leslie Josel

Leslie Josel is the creator of the Academic Planner: A Tool For Time Management®. The planner, awarded glowing reviews by many media outlets including Family Circle and ADDitude magazines, is a 2016 Family Choice Award recipient honoring the best products for children and families. Leslie is known as a respected resource on ADHD and Executive Functioning in students and has been featured in national broadcast and print media on these subjects. She also speaks and conducts workshops internationally to parent and educator groups on a variety of topics facing students today. Leslie is the co-author of the award winning, “The Complete Diabetes Organizer: Your Guide to a Less Stressful and More Manageable Diabetes Life”. Her second book, “What’s the Deal with Teens and Time Management: A Parent’s Guide to Helping Your Teen Succeed,” was published by People Tested Media in 2015. Known nationally as an expert on chronic disorganization and hoarding issues, Leslie has appeared on many episodes of TLC’s hit television show, “Hoarding: Buried Alive”, the Cooking Channel’s television special, “Stuffed: Food Hoarders”, “dLife-TV” and the Hallmark Channel’s “The Better Show” as their organizing expert. She is frequently quoted in mainstream news media such as Good Housekeeping, Better Homes and Gardens, New York’s Daily News, and many other print media.

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Guru #15

Penny Zenker

Penny’s high-energy and interactive keynote presentations and workshops inspire and challenge you to think differently, be more purposeful, more strategic and inspire you to be your best.

Penny Zenker is an international female keynote speaker, business strategy and executive coach and bestselling author of The Productivity Zone: Stop the Tug of War with Time. As a master NLP practitioner and neuro-strategist, she integrates the elements of thought, communication, and behavior to provide strategies for positive changes and maximum results.

Penny’s expertise focuses on strategic thinking, leadership, problem solving, communication, and productivity. She has coached hundreds of successful business leaders and entrepreneurs in leadership roles, relationships, and building culture.

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Guru #16

Roberto Castaldo

Dr Roberto Castaldo is the first Performance Management Specialist in Italy.

Chartered Accountant and Publicist Journalist enrolled in the Order of Journalists of Campania.

Innovation Manager accredited by the MISE.

Entrepreneur, Consultant and Coach.

Creator of Formula PMI​®​, the Integrated Business Management System that uses Mathematics, Neuroscience and Coaching to increase business performance, and of the Integrated NeuroCoachin​®​ model of which he is Master Advance Trainer.

Roberto has led over 1,000 entrepreneurs to success and developed various business projects:

  • 4 MAN Consulting – The Performance Management Company​®​ – Consulting, Training, Coaching and Temporary Management for Performance Management in the company.
  • Coach Italy – Integrated Neuro Coaching®® – The first Performance Coaching Academy for entrepreneurs, managers and freelancers.
  • PNLCorsi – Master in NLP – The most numerous Neuro-Linguistic Programming Community in Italy.
  • Publisher of OneMinuteClub – The First Compressed Business & Personal Growth Library to Change in 21 Minutes.
  • Editor of Tuttobasket.net – The basketball portal of the Italian Minors
  • Chairman of the scientific committee of KPI Edizioni – Performance Study Center – Publishing house specializing in Performance Management.Graduated in Economics with a mathematical-statistical focus, MBA with specialization in HR, international keynote speaker and author of numerous management texts, Roberto is a Neuro-Linguistic Programming trainer and is currently the only European to be certified by Selling Power™ as a specialist in Sales Performance Management.

In 2017 he received the Le Fonti Awards – international acknowledgment assigned to companies of the caliber of Segafredo, Cucinelli, Deutsche Bank, Eni and Rai – for Innovation & Leadership with the use of Coaching. In 2018 he received the award for Manager of the Year Best Awards.

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Guru #17

Rory Vaden

Rory Vaden authored the best-selling book Take the Stairs, co-founded Southwestern Consulting, a data-driven sales growth consulting practice, and founded The Center for the Study of Self-Discipline (CSSD). He consults with businesses like Novartis, P&G and True Value on the psychology of procrastination, and has been featured by CNN, Fast Company, Fortune, Fox News, Inc., The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He is a regular contributor for American Express Open Forum, The Huffington Post and The Tennessean, and he hosts The Rory Vaden Show. Rory Vaden’s productivity hack is to transform your procrastination until it is intentional. The idea is to think differently about choosing and prioritizing your tasks, because by putting more thought into if, when and how things ought to be done, you change your perspective on both time and productivity. By seeing what does and doesn’t need to be completed right this minute frees you up to make choices, including the choice to “procrastinate” and put if off on purpose. If you can take ownership of your time and the tasks you choose, you are in charge of your life, charting and navigating a course, rather than being moved about by the current.

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Guru #18

Elizabeth Grace Saunders

Elizabeth Grace Saunders is an internationally recognized time coach, author and speaker, as well as the founder and CEO of Real Life E, a time coaching company. Elizabeth is an expert on achieving more success with less stress.

Real Life E empowers individuals who feel guilty, overwhelmed, and frustrated to feel peaceful, confident and accomplished through time management coaching. Real Life E also encourages Christians to align themselves with God’s heart through Divine Time Management group coaching.

Elizabeth’s first book published by McGraw Hill, “The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: How to Achieve More Success With Less Stress,” explores how to go beyond managing your time to effective time investment so you can not only keep up with life but enjoy the process.

Elizabeth’s second book published by Harvard Business Review, “How to Invest Your Time Like Money,” explains how to get out of time debt so you can have enough time for what’s most important.

Her third book published by FaithWords, “Divine Time Management,” explores how Christians can experience more joyful, peaceful lives by aligning their time with God’s best.

Elizabeth was selected as one of the Top 25 Amazing Women of the Year by Stiletto Woman magazine. She contributes to blogs like Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Fast Company and has appeared on CBS, ABC, NBC, and Fox.

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Guru #19

Laura Stack

Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, CPAE, is best known by her moniker “The Productivity Pro®.” Stack is an award-winning keynote speaker, bestselling author, and noted authority on sales, leadership, and team productivity. She is the President & CEO of The Productivity Pro, Inc., a boutique consulting firm helping leaders increase workplace performance in high-stress environments. For over 25 years, Laura Stack’s keynote speeches and seminars have helped associations and Fortune 1000 corporations improve output, increase speed in execution, and save time in the office. She is a high-energy, high-content speaker, who educates, entertains, and motivates professionals to deliver bottom-line results. Stack is a member of the prestigious CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame, which has fewer than 200 members worldwide). She has earned the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation from the National Speakers Association, of which she was its president in 2011-2012. Laura Stack is the bestselling author of eight books published by Random House, Wiley, and Berrett-Koehler, including her newest, FASTER TOGETHER: Accelerating Your Team’s Productivity (Jan. 2018). Her books have been published in more than 20 foreign editions, and she is a featured columnist for the American Business Journal, LinkedIn, Time Management, and Productive magazines. Stack has produced more than 50 online productivity training programs.

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Guru #20

Craig Jarrow

Craig Jarrow is the author of Time Management Ninja. He writes about time management, productivity, and goal setting. He also shares new technology and tools that he is testing. His time management philosophy is about learning proper skills, habits, and tools that empower people to take control of their professional and personal lives. He believes in the simplest answer to bring about the most effective result. Not tricks that no one can implement, nor solutions that are too complex to be sustainable. His goal is to provide tips, techniques, and tools to help you get more done with minimal effort. If you like mastery of your time, technology tools, and actionable answers, then TMN is for you

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Guru #21

Curt Steinhorst

Curt Steinhorst is the bestselling author of Can I Have Your Attention? Inspiring Better Work Habits, Focusing Your Team, and Getting Stuff Done in the Constantly Connected Workplace. He is on a mission to rescue us from our distracted selves. After years studying the impact of tech on human behavior, Curt founded Focuswise, a consultancy that equips organizations to overcome the distinct challenges of the constantly-connected workplace.

Diagnosed with ADD as a child, Curt knows intimately the challenges companies face to keep the attention of today’s distracted workforce and customer. He has coached executives, TV personalities, and well-known professional athletes on how to effectively communicate and create focus when they speak to audiences, lead their employees, and engage their customers.

Curt’s unique insight and entertaining speaking style has captured the attention of audiences worldwide. He speaks more than seventy-five times a year to organizations that include everyone from global leadership associations and nonprofits to Fortune 100 companies.

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Guru #22

Lisa Woodruff

Lisa Woodruff is a productivity specialist, home organization expert, and founder and CEO of Organize 365. Lisa provides physical and motivational resources teaching busy women to take back control of their lives with functional systems that work.

She’s the host of the top-rated Organize 365 Podcast, which was featured as the Woman’s Day podcast of the month. She shares strategies for reducing overwhelming thoughts, clearing mental clutter, and living a productive and organized life.

Lisa has authored several Amazon bestselling books and is a sought-after trainer and speaker, often quoted as saying “Done is better than perfect” and “Progress over perfection.” Her sensible and doable organizing tasks appeal to multiple generations, and her candor and relatable style make you feel as though she is right there beside you, helping you get organized as you laugh and cry together.

As a recognized thought-leader, Lisa’s work has been featured in many national publications such as The New York Times, Fast Company, US News and World Report, Women’s World, Ladies Home Journal, Getting Organized and Woman’s Day magazines. She’s been interviewed on over fifty podcasts, featured in more than fifty local TV segments, participated in countless online summits and is a regular HuffPost and ADDitude magazine contributor.

Lisa is also a generational expert and specializes in unpacking common everyday scenarios with grace, reshaping your understanding of the role we play in the home today. Believing that organization is not a skill you’re born with, but rather one that is developed over time and which changes with each season of life, she made it her mission to redefine what it means to be a woman in the home.

Lisa lives in Cincinnati with her husband, Greg, and their children, Joey and Abby.

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Guru #23

Alexis Haselberger

Alexis Haselberger is a time management and productivity coach who helps people do more and stress less through coaching, workshops and online courses.  Her pragmatic, yet fun, approach helps people easily integrate practical, realistic strategies into their lives so that they can do more of what they want and less of what they don’t.  Alexis has taught thousands of individuals to take control of their time and her clients include Google, Lyft, Workday, Capital One, Upwork and more.

In this episode, Alexis shares many great tips to help you be productive, including planning ahead on a week-by-week basis and looking at your schedule every day. If you find it hard to focus on getting things done, you may want to look into her strategy and her challenge of turning off your notifications. I know it’s hard but think about what can you turn off? What are the nonessential things? Some devices actually let you turn off notifications during certain times; you can put on do not disturb mode, for example, so that you really can focus on getting the things done that are important, that you prioritize.

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Guru #24

Timo Kiander

Timo Kiander is an author, speaker and the person behind the blog, Productive Superdad, helping people to become more productive and organized, either at work or in their personal lives.

While he is passionate about the work he does, there are also other important components that make his life complete: spending time with his wife and his son and living the healthy lifestyle with exercising (for triathlons and marathons) and nutritious food.

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Guru #25

Mike Vardy

Mike Vardy is a writer, productivity strategist, and the creator of the time management methodology and philosophy known as TimeCrafting.

In addition to being the founder and chief writer at Productivityist, he continues to contribute guest articles to several blogs on the topic of productivity, time, and task management, including 99u, The Huffington Post, SUCCESS Magazine, and Lifehacker. He has served as Managing Editor at Lifehack, and as an editor at The Next Web and WorkAwesome.

Mike is a renowned speaker and has taught productivity practices on popular online education platforms CreativeLive and Skillshare, where his courses are among the most popular in the business category. He also hosts The Productivityist Podcast, a weekly interview show that examines personal productivity and tactical approaches to work and life.

In a “former life” he spent time performing improvisational and sketch comedy, and even took on a few stand-up gigs along the way. He’s a big fan of superhero movies and Green Lantern (although, admittedly, not THAT superhero movie).

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Guru #26

Morten T. Hansen

Morten T. Hansen is a management professor at University of California, Berkeley. He is the coauthor (with Jim Collins) of the New York Times bestseller Great by Choice and the author of the highly acclaimed Collaboration and Great at Work.

Formerly a professor at Harvard Business School and INSEAD (France), professor Hansen holds a PhD from Stanford Business School, where he was a Fulbright scholar. His academic research has won several prestigious awards, and he is ranked one of the world’s most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50. Morten Hansen was also a manager at the Boston Consulting Group, where he advised corporate clients worldwide. Morten travels the world to give keynotes and help companies and people become great at work.

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Guru #27

Dave Crenshaw

Dave Crenshaw develops productive leaders in Fortune 500 companies, universities, and organizations of every size. He has appeared in Time magazine, USA Today, FastCompany, and the BBC News. His courses on LinkedIn Learning have been viewed tens of millions of times. His five books have been published in eight languages, the most popular of which is The Myth of Multitasking—a time management bestseller. As an author, speaker, and online instructor, Dave has transformed the lives and careers of hundreds of thousands around the world.

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Guru #28

Laura Vanderkam

Laura Vanderkam is the author of several time management and productivity books, including Off the Clock, I Know How She Does It, What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, and 168 Hours.

Her 2016 TED talk, “How to Gain Control of Your Free Time,” has been viewed more than 5 million times. She regularly appears in publications including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and Fortune. She is the co-host, with Sarah Hart-Unger, of the podcast Best of Both Worlds.

She lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and four children, and blogs at LauraVanderkam.com.

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Guru #29

Lee Cockerell

Lee Cockerell is the former Executive Vice President of Operations for the Walt Disney World® Resort. “As the Senior Operating Executive for ten years Lee led a team of 40,000 Cast Members and was responsible for the operations of 20 resort hotels, 4 theme parks, 2 water parks, a shopping & entertainment village and the ESPN sports and recreation complex in addition to the ancillary operations which supported the number one vacation destination in the world.”

One of Lee’s major and lasting legacies was the creation of Disney Great Leader Strategies which was used to train and develop the 7000 leaders at Walt Disney World. Lee has held various executive positions in the hospitality and entertainment business with Hilton Hotels for 8 years and the Marriott Corporation for 17 years before joining Disney in 1990 to open the Disneyland Paris project

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Guru #30

Allyson Lewis

Allyson Lewis is an internationally acclaimed time management expert. She is a writer, speaker, trainer, and executive coach. She is the author of five books. Allyson’s mission is to help people across the world improve their business and personal development skills including: time management, goal setting, communication, and reconnecting with their priorities and purpose. She teaches busy people how to be efficient and happier. She is dedicated to delivering life-changing ideas, books, planners, tools, worksheets, checklists, and training to help people improve their time management and increase their daily productivity. Are you tired of being overwhelmed? Do you feel like a caged hamster running on a wheel and going nowhere? Allyson will help you beat procrastination, get rid of the clutter, create challenging goals, improve your project management, and give you more time to be happy. Allyson worked as a financial advisor for thirty years. Over that time, she built an incredibly successful financial advisory practice with the finest financial services companies in the world. In 2002, she became the senior financial advisor of a group of brilliant and talented team members. Allyson says, “When you bring together the love of life, the passion to help people, and a determined work ethic, you can will find success and meaning.”

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