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.

GoGoDone

I started GoGoDone in 2019 when I realized I was an infinitely more productive remote worker when I had a little bit of accountability. Like many remote workers, I also found working from home isolating. 

GoGoDone is a virtual coworking community where people from all over the world in every industry come together to get work done. We also offer mastermind sessions, longer sessions for focused, deeper work and project sprint groups to create dedicated time to the work that's important but not urgent.

From here sprang our premium community GoGoPublish, where solopreneurs come together to maximize their marketing ROI.

We put appointments on your calendar, and we put your butt in a seat (on Zoom). Then, alongside other people just like you, you show up. You make something. And if you want feedback, before you put it into the world, there’s someone ready to help.

When you put it into the world, you have a team to promote it.

Founder & Owner

Seth Godin's altMBA

Periodically coach students in their learning cohorts or function in tandem with another coach to provide more intensive guidance for students in 30 minute coaching sessions.

Coach

Therapeutic Associates Physical Therapy

Develop and implement a change management system relying heavily on remote training and elearning, accountability and mastermind groups to leverage peer learning and provide leadership coaching for initiative implementation and management. The primary change model was the 4 Disciplines of Execution.

Change Manager

CareConnections Outcomes

I worked with customers and prospective customers to find the right fit for their outcome optimization needs to provide better care for patients and clients and to provide access to benchmark information to stay ahead of the competition in value based-care. Position included management of digital marketing assets, writing for trade publications, presenting and providing workshops at trade events.

Business Partnerships Manager

Seth Godin's Akimbo Workshops

Co-created and co-coached a mastermind and productivity sprint group.

Head Coach

NAIOMT - North American Institute of Orthopaedic Manual Therapy

With the hire of a new CEO, I get to shift gears and focus on marketing and site development. This means figuring out what prospective students and sites want and giving it to them! Tack on development of our social network sites, newsletter and blog to stay in communication and my plate is full.

Director of Business Development

NAIOMT

My job has spiraled beyond coordinating exams to include any and every project handed down from above.  That's what happens when you love your computer!

Clackamas County

Counseling/Teaching/Program Development and Management for economically disadvantaged people looking for work.  Mental health and career counseling as well as teaching soft skills, GED English, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.  And of course a lot of documentation and paperwork.

Instructor/Counselor

Clackamas Community College

I went from a counseling intern to a project manager to a PT Faculty in Human Development.  Taught and counseled general college population and economically disadvantaged populations.  Taught courses in career exploration, diversity, decision making, building confidence, college success, communication, interviewing, and managing depression.

Faculty

Author and Founder of The Optimism Company

I could never get it all done. Then I stopped working on my to-do list and started working on WHY I couldn't get it all done. 

It was a complicated question that ended up with a simple answer. I built GoGoDone: a productivity community with a supportive culture to support my willpower and keep my priorities focused. 

Join us and learn a new way to be productive. One that doesn't leave you burnt out, but energized! 

Dip a toe in with my favorite inspirational visuals from all over the internet 2/mo: 
👍🏽 https://www.gogodone.com/subscribe 👍🏽 

If you're ready for the big leagues:
✅ Cowork with GoGoDone ✅

Join our intimate, global community in coworking sessions that leverage proven goal crushing techniques. 
✅ Dedicated time on your calendar (time boxing)
✅ State your goals
✅ Cycle works + breaks to stay fresh
✅ Check in on your goals
✅ Spend time with people doing what you want to be doing (shipping work!)

🏆 Bonus - this counts as networking people!

Start by joining our Slack group - link is on the homepage: https://www.gogodone.com 

One more bonus:
🏃‍♀️‍➡️ Project Acceleration with GoGoSprint 🏃‍➡️

Important work that's NOT urgent rarely sees the light of day. 

Use short, but intense blocks of time to focus on a single project. 

We have five hour blocks and two week sessions. 

https://www.gogodone.com/project-sprint 

☝️ Want personalized support? ☝️

Grab a 1:1 coaching appointment https://www.gogodone.com/coaching

(I also coach, periodically, in Seth Godin’s altMBA.)

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