David Allen's Bio

David Allen is a well-known consultant, author and international lecturer, a world-leading authority on personal and organizational productivity, the founder and president of David Allen & Co. He spent thirty years researching issues related with productivity, and today, he is the most influential thinker in his field. 

Besides his pioneering research on productivity, he led thousands of hours of intensive coaching sessions for the world’s best professionals, institutions and Fortune 500 companies. During his career, more than half million people working hundreds of different organizations worldwide got the chance to hear David Allen speaking, and to increase the productivity of their work using his advice. He was facilitator and keynote speaker for companies and organizations such as the World Bank, Lockheed, Microsoft, the U.S. Department of Justice, Oracle, L.L. Bean, and QVC.

With such a career, David Allen earned Forbes’s recognition of one of the top five executive coaches in the United States. He is also one of the "Top 100 thought leaders", according to Leadership Magazine. Fast Company named David Allen "the personal productivity guru" and "one of the world's most influential thinkers", referring to his innovative work the area of personal productivity. 

David Allen developed special programs for time and stress management, he wrote about aligning focus and vision, and he is the mastermind of several ground-breaking methodologies that helped executives as well as whole companies achieve outstanding performance.

His first book, Getting Things Done received lots of positive reviews, and Time Magazine labeled the book "the defining self-help business book of it’s time." Getting Things Done was first published in 2001, and it quickly became a bestseller. Until now, it has been published in 28 languages. David Allen’s other books are Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life and Ready For Anything.