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Balance

Promote fulfilling lifestyles in and out of the workplace.

Empower teams to take control of their time to rediscover the work and lives they love. These speakers will give audiences practical and actionable tips to achieve a successful work–life balance.

Designing
Your Life

Bill Burnett and Dave Evans teach how to design a well-balanced life that is productive, evolving, and filled with possibility—at work and at home.

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“Life has questions. They have answers…Learn how to find a fulfilling career…and kill your ‘wicked problems’ dead.”

“Dave introduced some fresh thinking and sparked a lot of discussion...I think people were surprised at how much fun they had and there was a lot of laughter.”

“Dave was OUTSTANDING! He created such a buzz on day one that people were still talking about it all the way through the close of the conference.”

“We put ourselves in [Bill’s] hands for 4 hours and emerged more thoughtful and energized than I could have hoped for.”

“This [is] the career book of the next decade and . . . the go-to book that is read as a rite of passage whenever someone is ready to create a life they love.”

David Kelley, Founder of IDEO

Make Time for What Matters

Laura Vanderkam’s time management strategies reveal how to get the most out of each week so teams can build a life that balances work and home.

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“As a busy CEO, I was inspired by the hundreds of people Vanderkam studied who found ample time for career, family, and self in the same 168 hours available to everyone, each week.”

Richard Sheridan, CEO and chief storyteller, Menlo Innovations, and author of Joy, Inc.

“Vanderkam’s curiosity for high performance and what makes it possible is infectious.”

Jon Acuff, author of Do Over

“Laura Vanderkam shows us how to use our only real wealth—our 168 hours a week—to make our lives richer, not busier.”

Geoff Colvin, author of Talent Is Overrated

“We so often live our lives day by day. Laura wants us to think about doing it hour by hour. Living this mantra by example, she gets more done in a day than most of us do in a week.”

Seth Godin, author of Linchpin

“I’m a longtime fan of Laura…Thanks to her findings, I’ll never look at my weekly calendar the same way again.”

Gretchen Rubin, author of Better Than Before and The Happiness Project

The Art of Gathering

Priya Parker invigorates mundane meetings with lessons on how to turn every gathering and customer experience into an opportunity to build community.

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“[Priya] opens up new ways of thinking about wonderful gatherings with a delicious confection of smartly-defined concepts and detailed examples.”

Chris Anderson, owner and curator of TED

“Priya Parker has created both an art and a science to gathering in ways that can bring joy and fulfillment to any meeting.”

Deepak Chopra

“[Priya] will open your eyes to just how often we gather – and how we can turn those mundane events into dazzling opportunities for meaning, dreaming, and doing.”

Daniel L. Shapiro, founder of the Harvard International Negotiation Program and author of Negotiating the Nonnegotiable

“Parker offers a decoder ring for the secret forces at work when we gather for business, crises or celebration.”

Joshua Cooper Ramo, author of The Seventh Sense

“If you want to get more out of every event, whether it’s with your boss and co-workers or friends and family, The Art of Gathering can help.”