David Allen

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David Allen is a successful consultant, executive coach, academic and motivational speaker with more than 25 years of experience delivering productivity and management workshops for Fortune 500 companies. 

David Allen, founder and president of the David Allen Company, has spent over 25 years researching and implementing high performance methods in personal and organizational productivity.

David Allen has been labeled by Fast Company magazine as “one of the world’s leading thinkers” in this arena. A consultant, executive coach, educator, and motivational speaker, Allen has conducted workshops in performance enhancement for more than 400,000 professionals, delivering management and productivity programs for such diverse organizations as Microsoft, Merck, Stanford University, Lockheed, L.L. Bean, New York Life, QVC, the World Bank, and the US Navy. Allen has spent thousands of hours coaching managers, executives, and entrepreneurs, implementing customized personal systems within the contest of company strategies.

David Allen is also a popular keynote speaker on the topics of productivity, time and stress management, and the power of aligned focus and vision. Allen is the author of the international best-selling book, Getting Things Done: the Art of Stress-Free Productivity, and numerous published essays and articles on the topic of personal effectiveness. His second book, Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life, was published September 2003. He also produces the e-newsletter, “David Allen’s Productivity Principles,” with more than 55,000 subscribers worldwide.

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