Greg McKeown

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ABOUT GREG MCKEOWN

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.