Greg McKeown

Best-selling Author, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, CEO of THIS Inc, Young Global Leader

Greg McKeown

Best-selling Author, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, CEO of THIS Inc, Young Global Leader

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Biography

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 Times, Fast 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 NPR, NBC, 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.

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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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Keynote | Learning Objectives:
- Learn the value proposition for Essentialism
- Understand three practices for applying Essentialism: Explore what’s essential, eliminate what’s nonessential and execute what matters most as effortlessly as possible
- Leave with a 21-Day Challenge with specific steps to put Essentialism into practice

Keynote & Mini Workshop | Learning Objectives:
- Participants learn everything covered in the Keynote as well as The WIN Process, a tool for rapidly zeroing in on What’s Important Now, and The Tradeoff Tool, a process for eliminating one nonessential activity that’s getting in the way.

Half-Day Workshop | Learning Objectives:
-Participants learn everything covered in the Keynote + Mini Workshop as well as The Reverse Pilot, a process for testing what happens when you stop an activity and The Elimination Cycle, a tool for breaking out of our tendency to say “yes.”

Effortless: The Disciplined Pursuit of Simple

Keynote | Learning Objectives:
- Discover how the 10X Dilemma is holding you back.
- Learn 5 counter-intuitive tools you can use right now to break through to the next level without burning out.
- Bonus: How Radical Gratitude helps you turn negatives into positives.

Keynote & Mini Workshop | Learning Objectives:
- Participants learn everything covered in the Keynote as well as The Start from Zero Process, a tool for radical simplification and The Invert Tool, a way to immediately remove cost and clutter.

Half-Day Workshop | Learning Objectives:
- Participants learn everything covered in the Keynote + Mini Workshop as well as The Trust Unit, how to build the engine for high leverage teams and The Residual Results Model, how to escape the tyranny of linear effort.

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