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About Bill Jensen - Business Management and Productivity Speaker:

Bill Jensen is today’s foremost expert on work complexity and cutting through clutter to what really matters. He is an internationally-recognized bestselling author, whose work has been called user-friendly, worldly-wise, and often hilarious, and has been published in over a dozen languages. Bill is known for provocative ideas, extremely useful content, and his passion for making it easier for managers and employees to work smarter and accomplish extraordinary feats.

Bill's first book, Simplicity, has been hailed as a breakthrough in the design of communication and understanding, and was the Number 5 Leadership/Management book on Amazon.com in 2000. His next best-sellers were Work 2.0, and Simplicity Survival Handbook: 32 Ways to Do Less and Accomplish More. His fourth book What is Your Life’s Work? captures the intimate exchanges between mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and caring teammates, all talking about what matters at work, and in life. His latest book Hacking Work: Breaking Stupid Rules for Smart Results, Bill reveals an underground army of benevolent hackers — breaking all sorts of rules so everyone can do great work.

Bill Jensen has over 25 years of experience in communication and change consulting. He holds degrees in Communication Design and Organizational Development. He is CEO of The Jensen Group, whose mission is: To make it easier to get stuff done. Among the Jensen Group’s clients are Bank of America, Merck, Pfizer, Duracell, NASA, The World Bank, Walt Disney World, American Express, the US Navy SEALS, the government of Ontario, Singapore Institute of Management, Guangzhou China Development District, and the Swedish Post Office.

Bill’s personal life fantasy is to bicycle around the globe via breweries.

What Bill Jensen Talks About:

Bill Jensen is a passionate simpleton and an outspoken gadfly against corporate stupidity that wastes people’s time, attention, and dreams. His mission is to make it easier for people to get stuff done. In 1992 Bill launched an ongoing study, The Search for a Simpler Way, and has interviewed and surveyed over 400,000 people around the world about what really matters and how they get everything done. That research has supported all of his books and presentations.

Most Popular topic:

Work Smarter, Not Harder: Now!
30 Guaranteed How To’s in 90 Minutes
Fasten your seatbelts! You’re about to get 30 proven-around-the-globe How To’s for working smarter. Thirty ways to do less and accomplish more….30 guaranteed successful ways to change how you manage relationships and your workload and your life — all at once. No theory…just rapid-fire how to’s.

First, Bill Jensen has spent the past two decades studying how work gets done. Not just how it’s supposed to get done…but how over 500,000 over-worked, under-resourced, time-pressed people around the globe actually get everything done — and still have a life! He brings you the world’s best practices for working smarter, not harder.

Then he clustered the most useful how to’s under the five biggest challenges most everyone faces today:

• Too Much Coming At Me - How to delete, scan and skim: In emails, meetings, face-to-face
• Competing for Everyone’s Attention - How to get other’s attention, buy-in and commitment
• Getting It All Done - How to secrets for getting what you need before you begin!
• Value-Packed Relationships - How to get more and more done through others
• The Big So What? - How to stay focused on what truly matters, with less stress, and more fulfillment

Audiences will leave with five or ten or twenty how to’s that you can apply as soon as the session ends. They will know how to get back two to four hours per day — learning the ultimate time management strategy.