Tony Schwartz

Tony Schwartz is founder, president and CEO of The Energy Project, a company that helps individuals and organizations build capacity and sustainable high performance by more efficiently managing energy. Tony has spent 30 years studying, writing about, teaching and coaching people in how to perform at their best.

Tony's most recent book, Be Excellent At Anything: The Four Keys to Transforming the Way We Work and Live, was published in May, 2010, and became an immediate New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. His previous book, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy Not Time, co-authored with Jim Loehr, spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into 28 languages.

Tony is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, and is one of HBR.org's most popular bloggersHe also writes for numerous other publications, including the New York Times.

Tony started his career as a journalist. He has been a reporter for the New York Times, an editor at Newsweek, a staff writer at New York and Esquire, and a columnist for Fast Company. He also co-authored the #1 worldwide bestseller The Art of the Deal with Donald Trump, and wrote What Really Matters: Searching for Wisdom in America.

Tony has delivered keynotes to audiences around the world and has worked with leaders at dozens of organizations including Apple, Ford, Google, Goldman Sachs, Intel, Ernst & Young, Kraft, Wells Fargo and Oracle, as well as the Los Angeles Police Department, the Cleveland Clinic and the National Security Agency.

• 1. TRANSFORMING THE WAY WE WORK – The New Rules of Engagement

  Demand in our lives is increasing relentlessly. Our capacity isn't keeping pace. The way we're working isn't working. Far too many organizations expect their employees to operate in the same way that computers do: continuously, at high speeds, for long periods of time, running multiple programs at the same time.
  
  It's a prescription for failure. Human beings are designed to pulse. We're at our best when we move between periods of expending energy and intermittently renewing our four energy needs: sustainability (physical); security (emotional); self-expression (mental); and significance (spiritual). The better those needs are met, the more value we're capable of creating. Time is finite, but we can expand and renew our energy across all four dimensions of our lives.
  
  The primary value exchange between employees and employers today is time for money. Each seeks to get as much of the other's resource as possible. It's a thin, one-dimensional transaction that serves neither side well. Rather than trying to get more out of their employees, employers are better served by meeting people's multi-dimensional needs, so they're freed, fueled and motivated to bring the best of themselves to work every day.
  
  You'll walk out of this talk with:
  
  ·A scientifically-based paradigm for how to work (and live) in a way that is more productive and more satisfying.
  ·A clear understanding of the four key needs you must meet in order to perform at your best.
  ·Clarity around the characteristics of the "Performance Zone" and what pushes us into the "Survival Zone"
  ·Insight into the unique power of singularly absorbed attention and how to cultivate it.
  ·The secret to regularly renewing your energy even when demand is high and time is scarce.
  ·The opportunity to build a ritual—a highly specific behavior that addresses one of your key energy needs and becomes automatic over time.
  

• 7. Resistance and Recommitment: Overcoming Immunity to Change

• 6. Radical Responsibility: Cultivating Realistic Optimism

• 5. The Power of Positive Rituals: Making Change That Lasts

• 4. The Performance Pulse: How Intermittent Renewal Drives Sustainable Productivity

• 3. Facing The Silent Productivity Problem

• 2. Leader Fuel: Managing Energy to Maximize Performance

• I'm a huge fan of Tony Schwartz. I have had the great pleasure of his working closely with me and our senior leaders during the past 18 months. As a communicator of ideas he is refreshingly practical, straightforward, innovative, challenging and invigorating.
  Wachovia Bank
• I have become accustomed to the glowing comments Tony's workshops here. Our partners have found his concepts and practices to be truly effective in making a lasting difference in how they approach their work and the success they achieve through it.
  Credit Suisse First Boston
• Tony had a very, very high impact on Forrester. Not only did our performance increase, but he elevated the energy, mood and morale of the company. Bravo, Tony!
  Forrester
• One of our best meetings ever. Tony's was a memorable presentation and his participation was a major part of our success.
  US Chamber of Commerce
• Tony's work is about energizing leadership. His recommendations all intuitively make sense, but it is the way he fits the pieces together and connects them to performance that makes his presentations so especially powerful.
  MasterCard International

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  May 2010

  The Way We're Working Isn't Working

  We need a new way of working. Most organizations expect their employees to operate the same way computers do: continuously, at ever-higher speeds, running multiple programs at the same time. The consequence is that we’re increasingly exhausted, distracted and disengaged. When demand exceeds our capacity, we default into survival mode. It’s not good for us, and it’s not good for our employers. For individuals, this book is a highly actionable blueprint for a new way of working and a more satisfying way of life. For leaders and managers, the book provides a roadmap to fueling a fully engaged workforce. 

  
  
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  December 2004

  The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

  The Power of Full Engagement is a highly practical, scientifically based approach to managing your energy more skillfully. It provides a clear road map to becoming more physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused, and spiritually aligned -- both on and off the job.

  
  
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  September 1999

  Work in Progress

  Co-authoured by Tony Schwartz and Michael Eisner with candor and insight, Eisner describes his successes, his well-publicized failures, and the personality struggles he has faced. And as he does so, we learn the principles that have guided his career:
  -- Suggesting the impossible extends the possible
  -- Good creative instincts are meaningless unless you act on them
  -- Success tends to make you forget what made you successful in the first place
  -- Find out the bad news first. The good news rarely requires immediate action.
  -- The key to any creative venture is the idea -- the basic concept stripped of any other considerations. Everything else is secondary.

  
  
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  March 1995

  What Really Matters

  The author recounts his four-year journey to find peace of mind.  His travels across the US sees him encounter all aspects of the consciousness movement including dream therapy and meditation.

  
  
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  November 1987

  Trump: The Art of the Deal

  Beginning with a week in Trump's high-stakes life, Trump: The Art of the Deal gives us Trump in action. We see just how he operates day to day-how he runs his business and how he runs his life-as he chats with friends and family, clashes with enemies, efficiently buys up Atlantic City's top casinos, changes the face of the New York City skyline . . . and plans the tallest building in the world.