Greg McKeown

Penguin Random House

Author, "Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most"

Essentialism, Inc

Host, The Greg McKeown Podcast

For 20 years I've been fascinated with the question, "What holds people, teams and organizations back from breaking through to the next level?" The answer, to my surprise, is success.

The problem is not success per se but the undisciplined pursuit of more. The antidote is Essentialism or the disciplined pursuit of less. This enables people to figure out what is really essential, to eliminate everything else, and to make execution of what really matters as effortless as possible.

Author, "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less."

World Economic Forum

The Forum of Young Global Leaders is a unique, multistakeholder community of more than 700 exceptional young leaders who share a commitment to shaping the global future.

Nominated under 40, these young leaders are proposed through a qualified nomination process and assessed according to rigorous selection criteria that creates a diverse and truly representative body, while accepting only the very best leaders who have already demonstrated their commitment to serving society at large.

Out of the thousands of candidates nominated each year, between 100 and 200 extraordinary individuals are honored each year with the title “Young Global Leader” at which time they are invited to become Active Members of the World Economic Forum. 

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

Young Global Leader

The Wiseman Group

Collaborated on the research and writing of management articles with Liz Wiseman including the HBR article, "Managing Yourself: Bringing Out the Best in Your People" and the bestselling book, "Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter".

Partner

Heidrick & Struggles

Provided psychological and executive assessments to senior leaders in Silicon Valley and beyond.

Leadership Consultant

I teach people how to focus and simplify.

In this pursuit, I've written two New York Times bestsellers, “Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less”, and “Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most”. Together they have sold three million copies and been published into 40 languages. 

I've spoken to hundreds of audiences as I've traveled to 45 countries around the world. Clients include Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Nike as well as TED Fellows, SXSW and the Navy Seals.

I host The Greg McKeown Podcast which is consistently ranked as a top business podcast. Recent guests include Brad Smith (President of Microsoft),  Ed Catmull (cofounder of Pixar), Ron Jonson (creator of Apple Stores and the Genius Bar) Arthur Brooks (Harvard professor) and Matthew McConaughey (Academy Award Winning Actor).

My work has been covered in print media including in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Time, Fast Company, Fortune, Politico, Inc., and Harvard Business Review. It’s been covered on NPR, NBC, FOX, and many times on The Steve Harvey Show.

I'm an active Social Innovator. I served for 7 years 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. I've spoken at non-profit groups including The Kauffman Fellows, Net Impact, and Stanford University (where I also co-created the popular class, Designing Life, Essentially).

Prior to this, I 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.

I did my MBA at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, my Global Leadership and Public Policy certificate at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and I'm currently doing doctoral research on deep listening and peacemaking at the University of Cambridge.

Emily Burnett/Ellis Lane LLC

An expansion of previous projects dedicated to intentional living and intentional money.

I write the newsletter "More to Your Life" on Substack, and mentor employed entrepreneurs to be more financially able to leave unfulfilling jobs, live more intentionally, and build their own thing.

Writer, Mentor, CEO

Moso Money Financial Coaching

I coach stuck dreamers who crave more freedom and want to bring their OWN thing to life.

Using my own experiences with debt payoff, saving, and exiting corporate, I help YOU:
- Take an honest look at how much life costs you (no judgment!)
- Create a budget you can love and use to keep your big plans organized.
- See how possible it is to pay off debt, save a "walk away fund" and create a practical roadmap for making your big move.

Founder

Artemis Health

Business Analyst & Web Senior Manager

Web Manager

Ancestry.com

- I find problems overlooked by others and propose solutions
- I manage the team that creates and deploys the email component of Ancestry's marketing email campaigns on the StrongView email platform. I work toward the happiness and development of my team.
- I take ownership and figure out which teams need to contribute for fixes and deployment
- I work in and debug HTML, CSS, XSL logic, and XML and collaborate with front-end developers to build and improve templates and email assembly
- I pay crazy attention to content, grammar, link functionality, and rendering across browsers and clients
- Promoted from Lead to Senior Lead January 2016.

Global Email Production Senior Lead

Axis41

Experience includes:

- Technical project management coordinating development and design on www.ciena.com, 12 associated global sites and the mobile site. 
- Building/maintaining client sites built in Clickability (Java-based) CMS and Wordpress.
- Using HTML5, CSS3, JQuery and Javascript to build Intranet company directory as well as client landing pages, sites and HTML emails.
- Working with other developers, designers, and account managers to understand client expectations, make recommendations and deliver summaries of work to clients.
- Git, Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator, email campaigns, Marketo marketing automation software.

Web Developer / Technical Project Manager

Huntsman Cancer Institute

• Actively manage 60+ clinical trials in the following multidisciplinary disease groups: Breast, Pain & Palliative Care, Radiation Oncology, and Multiple Myeloma.

• Coordinate amendments, protocol renewals, and new protocol implementation with various University sub-committees (Clinical Cancer Investigations Committee, Bio-safety Committee/Environmental Health Services, Radiation Use Sub-committee, Institutional Review Board) and outside national cooperative groups and external industry sponsors.

Regulatory Coordinator

• Responsible for the efficient flow of regulatory documents. Reviewed regulatory binders in preparation for monitoring visits and audits and processed IRB approvals and acknowledgments.  Promoted after four months to position of Regulatory Coordinator.

Regulatory Administrative Coordinator

MVA Medical Center

• Re-designed patient intake paperwork and other office procedures and documents.  Coordinate physician and patient scheduling. Coordinated liens and payments with attorneys, health insurance companies, and patients. Filed quarterly and annual tax documents. Asked to proofread and edit physician correspondence and dictations.

Office Manager

Business Properties Group

• Drafted correspondence and lease provisions. Reviewed existing leases for renewal and resolution of   tenant disputes. Designed and implement marketing campaigns. Responsible for filing legal action documents and preparing documents for legal counsel. Disperse and reconcile petty cash. 
Negotiate with and mitigate concerns of current and prospective tenants.

Assistant Property Manager/Leasing Agent

👉 PSA: As of December 2024, I'm not here on LinkedIn much. Please come join me where I write, over on Substack. 

- More to Your Life (https://www.moretoyour.life/). 
- The Pickleball Times (https://www.thepbtimes.com/)

I love writing about creating more peace and more personal freedom by getting intentional with life, money, and work. And I also write about intentional pickleball—it's a thing.

I'm a former corporate marketing technologist who left the corporate "safety zone" in 2022 to coach, then ended up doing more writing, creating, traveling and connecting than I'd even imagined. Through my writing and consulting, I love helping meaning-seekers create options in their life by simplifying the stressful stuff and expanding the exciting stuff.

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