David Allen is an author, consultant, international lecturer, and Founder of the David Allen Company. He is widely recognized as the world’s leading authority on personal and organizational productivity. His thirty years of pioneering research, coaching and education of some of the world’s highest-performing professionals, corporations and institutions, has earned him “Forbes'” recognition as one of the top five executive coaches in the United States, and as one of the ‘Top 100 thought leaders’ by Leadership magazine. Fast Company hailed David Allen “One of the world’s most influential thinkers” in the arena of personal productivity, for his outstanding programs and writing on time and stress management, the power of aligned focus and vision, and his groundbreaking methodologies in management and executive peak performance. “TIME” magazine labelled his first book, “Getting Things Done” as “the defining self-help business book of the decade.”