Greg McKeown Biography

Greg McKeown writes, teaches and speaks around the world on the importance of living and leading as an essentialist.

He has spoken at companies, including Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com, Symantec, Twitter and VMware. He is also the co-creator of the popular course Designing Life, Essentially at Stanford University.

He is the author of The New York Times and Wall Street Journal best seller Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less (April 2014) and is among the most popular bloggers for Harvard Business Review and LinkedIn’s Influencer group.

McKeown is an active social innovator. He serves as a Young Global Leader for the World Economic Forum; as a guest speaker (NetImpact, Kauffman Fellows); a board member (The Resolve/Kony 2012) and a mentor (2Seeds/Tanzania).

He collaborated on the writing and research of The Wall Street Journal best seller, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (HarperBusiness, June 2010); Bringing Out the Best in Your People (Harvard Business Review, May 2010) and Are You An Accidental Diminisher? (Ivey Business Journal, August 2010).

Prior to this research and teaching, McKeown worked for Heidrick & Struggles' Global Leadership Practice assessing senior executives. His work included being a part of a yearlong project for Mark Hurd (then CEO of Hewlett-Packard), assessing the top 300 executives at HP.

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