David Allen

David Allen

World's Leading Personal Productivity Guru

David Allen, author of the international best-selling book, Getting Things Done: the Art of Stress-Free Productivity, has been hailed by Fast Company magazine as the world's leading personal productivity guru. Inspirational, provocative, and dynamic, his presentations demonstrate the fundamental principles necessary for people to follow in order to achieve and sustain a more productive lifestyle with much less stress. Audiences always come away with a renewed sense of possibility equipped with the tools to make those feelings reality.


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David Allen is widely recognized as the world’s leading expert on personal and organizational productivity. His thirty-year pioneering research and coaching to corporate managers and CEOs of some of America’s most prestigious corporations and institutions has earned him Forbes’ recognition as one of the top five executive coaches in the U.S. and Business 2.0 magazine's inclusion in their 2006 list of the "50 Who Matter Now." Time Magazine called his flagship book, Getting Things Done, “the definitive business self-help book of the decade.” Fast Company Magazine called 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 groundbreaking methodologies in management and executive peak performance.   

Allen is the international best-selling author of Getting Things Done: the Art of Stress-Free Productivity; Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life; and Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life.

As the engineer of GTD®, the popular Getting Things Done® methodology, Allen has shown millions how to transform a fast-paced, overwhelming, overcommitted life into one that is balanced, integrated, relaxed, and has more successful outcomes. GTD’s broad appeal is based on the fact that it is applicable from the boardroom to the living room to the classroom. It is hailed as “life changing” by students, busy parents, entrepreneurs and corporate executives.  

Allen is the Founder and Chairman of the David Allen Company, whose inspirational seminars, coaching, educational materials and practical products present individuals and organizations with a new model for “Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life.” He continues to write articles and essays that address today’s ever-changing issues about living and working in a fast-paced world while sustaining balance, control, and meaningful focus.

Allen is a popular keynote speaker on the topics of time and stress management, individual and team productivity, and high performance work practices.

  • Creating Order Out of Chaos - Staying Afloat in a World of Too Much to Do

  • Getting Projects Off Your Mind and Moving - Why Natural Planning is Not Normal

  • Getting Things Done: the Art of Stress-Free Productivity

  • Getting Things Off Your Mind and Getting Them Done - The Zen of In-Basket Maintenance

  • Leveraging Focus and Vision - Harnessing the Power of Imagery in Life and Work

  • Making Change Stick - the Two Magic Ingredients

  • Managing Commitments - the Key to Relaxed Control

  • Mastering the Art of Work

  • Ready for Anything

  • The Five Keys to Mastering Workflow

  • What's On Your Mind? How to Stop Unproductive Thinking and Get Things Done

  • “One of the world's must influential thinkers on productivity”
    Fast Company Magazine
  • “Fantastic content and applicability. Outstanding presentations.”
    Ralston Purina
  • “David Allen's work is both powerful and important.”
    New England Medical Center
  • “David Allen's work is a breath of fresh air”
    Oracle
  • “David Allen is the Henry Ford of the digital age.”
    KPMG
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