Supercharge your productivity

Who do you call for leadership advice if you’re the CEO of a publicly listed company? Probably Dr. Marshall Goldsmith. He’s the only two-time winner of the Thinkers 50 Award for #1 Leadership Thinker and ranked as the #1 Executive Coach in the World for the past eight years. He's also the author of 36 books, including three New York Time bestsellers, that have sold over 2.5 million copies and been listed bestseller in 12 countries. His books, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There and Triggers have been recognised on Amazon as two of the Top 100 Leadership & Success Books Ever Written.

A dedicated GTD advocate, NASA Astronaut Cady Coleman has flown twice on the space shuttle, lived underwater for 11 days in the Aquarius Habitat, camped in a tent for 6 weeks in Antarctica collecting meteorites, played a flute duet with Jethro Tull from space, and flown on a Russian Soyuz for a six-month stay on the International Space Station. When Sandra Bullock wanted tips for the space thriller Gravity she went to the highest possible authority floating over 200 miles above the Earth in the International Space Station. The tips came from Cady. At the GTD Summit she will share her unique perspective on how lessons learned in space apply to all of us, right here on earth.

Brian Robertson is an experienced entrepreneur, organizational pioneer, and author of the book Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World. He is most well-known for his work developing Holacracy®, a self-management practice for running purpose-driven, responsive companies. Mr. Robertson currently works as a business partner at HolacracyOne, the organization he launched to steward the Holacracy practice and assist other organizations seeking to adopt it. Holacracy® has been adopted by over 1,000 companies around the world to date.

Tony has spent a lifetime analysing how people think, feel and behave at work. With a background in occupational psychology, he’s helped leaders, teams and organisations such as Microsoft, Disney, News Corp and HSBC deliver lasting behavioural change by approaching problems unusually. His bestseller ‘Busy’, has helped people around the world to thrive in a world of 'too much'. In an era where our inbox and to-do list are bulging, a huge amount of people expect things from us and our organisations are trying to do more with fewer people — Tony is the voice of reason. Tony wrote his book ‘Busy’, not as someone who claims to have the solution; but as a fellow sufferer of busyness; as someone who also struggles with the limitless demands and distractions of our world of too much. He wrote the book because he was convinced there must be a better response than ‘busy’.

Robyn is co-founder and CEO of Apolitical, an award-winning learning platform for government. Used by public servants in 140 countries, Apolitical’s mission is to accelerate the transformation of government. Previously Robyn co-founded OneLeap, an executive education company, and a Southern African non-profit teaching coding to vulnerable youth. She has written an acclaimed memoir about growing up in Botswana. She is an ambassador for the Access to Medicine Index, an advisor to the Responsible Mining Index, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a Gates Scholar. She implemented GTD in a very creative and unique way for herself, focused on emotional payoffs from her actions.

Ove Kenneth Nilsen is a film editor, director, triathlete, soul singer, Capoeira instructor and the man behind the non-profit organization Long Life Shorts that helps prevent drowning in Africa. He is also helps organize the wolds largest GTD meetup group. All of this despite his growing up with the feeling that the world was too complicated and overwhelming. He has his own podcast where he interviews experts from every walk of life about simplification. His live show “Forenkle” (Simplify) combines Ove Kenneth's different talents in a creative and entertaining presentation about everyday simplification.

As the Vice President of Product Development at VitalSmarts, Emily leads all of our product teams, works with clients to customize VitalSmarts products for their organizations, and sets the standard for all VitalSmarts facilitators. Working closely with the New York Times bestselling VitalSmarts authors and other thought leaders, Emily brings the best of social science research to organizations in meaningful and actionable ways.

Emily Gregory’s facilitation style captures a unique blend of humor, inspiration, and intellect that engages, challenges, and motivates audiences to change. A natural entertainer, Emily holds audiences’ attention from beginning to end. But, it is her depth of experience, academic background, and rigorous intellectual reasoning that provides the solid foundation for her message.

Mark Tigchelaar studied neuropsychology and helps professional athletes, entrepreneurs and knowledge professionals to gain more from their brain. By working with more than 100.000 people in the past 15 years, he found out that the key component to improve performance is Focus Management. Without control over our attention, it takes more time to do our work and we experience more stress. In the long-term it even increases the chance of a burnout. Through in-depth studies of the brain, he identified four concentration leaks. When you know which these are, and know how to stop them, you gain control over your focus and with that your productivity. Mark wrote five books and gave several TEDx Talks on how to use insights of neuroscience to improve our performance.

Stephanie Ward is the Business & Marketing Mentor for Global Entrepreneurs who want to create a meaningful and prosperous business. Stephanie helps business owners get clear and then generate marketing ideas that are a perfect fit.

Eric Anderson is a lifelong entrepreneur with a history of successfully introducing products and services into new markets. He is most well-known for pioneering the development of the space tourism industry as the Co-Founder and Chairman of Space Adventures. Since 2001, Mr. Anderson has successfully arranged eight mission to the International Space Station for privately-funded individuals. He is the Founder of Idea.com, Chairman of Booster Fuels, Chairman and CEO of Planetary Holdings; and served as the CEO of Intentional Software Corporation which was acquired my Microsoft in 2017. Mr. Anderson also co-founded Space Angels Network, Planetary Resources; and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Virginia where he studied aerospace and software engineering. He is a Board Member of the X PRIZE Foundation and the Koshka Foundation; a Member of the World Economic Forum and TED; and Chairman Emeritus of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation. He co-authored the Space Tourist’s Handbook; and was selected as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” award winner, Smart CEO magazine “CEO of the Year”, and a National Space Society Space Visionary.

David Covey is the 3rd son of Stephen R. Covey, author of the groundbreaking book, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.” David was the chief operating officer of FranklinCovey. He then left FranklinCovey to start his own company, now called SMCOV. SMCOV works with the best intellectual property content experts on the planet and helps distributes their content globally through licensees. David loves working with impactful IP and setting up distribution systems around the globe. He is the author of the book, “Trap Tales”.

Elise is a creative entrepreneur that loves challenging the status quo by encouraging others to think big and realise their dreams. Early on, she did so as one of the two entrepreneurs behind Seats2meet, a pioneering innovative co-working concept in the pre-WeWork era. More recently, she’s been revolutionising the publishing world by self-publishing various cook books, mindset books and a 35 kilo book called Rijks Masters of the Golden Age with Marcel Wanders. She invited David Allen to the Netherlands almost 10 years ago, planting the seed for his love for Amsterdam. Having her creativity on stage brings things full-circle.

Louie Schwartzberg is an award-winning producer, director and cinematographer whose notable career spans more than three decades providing breathtaking imagery for feature films, television shows, documentaries and commercials.

As the only filmmaker in the world who has been shooting time-lapse 24/7 continuously for over four decades, Schwartzberg is a visual artist breaking barriers, connecting with audiences, and telling stories that celebrate life and reveal the mysteries and wisdom of nature, people and places.

Using time-lapse, high-speed and macro cinematography, Schwartzberg offers audiences an intimate and unprecedented high-definition glimpse into the hidden world of butterflies, hummingbirds, bats and bees in his “Wings of Life” film, including the precarious relationship these pollinators have with flowers – a third of the world’s food supply depending on these increasingly threatened species.

In 2009, Dan blew the world away with his TED Talk on the science of motivation, which is one of the 10 most-watched TED Talks of all time with more than 20 million views. He is also the author of six provocative books — including his newest, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, which has spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list. His other books include the long-running New York Times bestseller A Whole New Mind and the #1 New York Times bestsellers Drive and To Sell is Human. Before venturing out on his own 20 years ago, Dan worked in several positions in politics, including serving from 1995 to 1997 as chief speechwriter to Vice President Al Gore.

Karen’s career includes both nonprofit and for profit experience in business, education, philanthropy, with a primary focus on education and woman’s empowerment in the Middle East. She has lead programs serving refugee populations as founding director of USA Friends of UNRWA for Palestine refugees, head of the Middle East Children’s Institute (MECI) for Palestinians in the West Bank, underprivileged Jordanian children and Syrian refugee children in Jordan. She was privileged to serve as a program officer with the Goldman Sachs Foundation and later with the Institute of International Education for the Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Program identifying outstanding youth world wide in leadership and social entrepreneurship. She was a coach for David Allen & Co., managed the USA seminars of Getting Things Done (GTD), and was a Vice President for Time Design when it served as the primary tool for GTD. David Allen and Karen worked on a pilot program bringing GTD to local elected and appointed officials in a small Western Massachusetts town where mind mapping became a regular part of science education at the middle school level and GTD a planning and execution tool for local town operations. In the 1990’s this town as result of the work with David was asking about and creating its vision for the town in the year 2020.

The drive: curiosity leading to a deep understanding and simplicity as the ultimate sophistication. As a scholar, as well as a consultant, trainer, coach and speaker Theo is driven by the curiosity to understand complex issues by studying the research, finding the underlying mechanisms, which when really understood often are simple. He deeply distrusts mere opinions, including his own, and especially from people who do not really know the subject. Theo looks for the practical applications of this knowledge and burns the midnight oil to find ways to share these insights in lectures, workshops and writing for students, professionals, managers and the public at large.

When you think about it, the history of productivity software is surprisingly short on disruptive moments. Google Sheets, for instance, may be web-based and collaborative, but its conceptual bones are the same as those of Microsoft Excel (established 1985), which itself followed the lead of Lotus 1-2-3 (1983) and VisiCalc (1979). That’s not a knock on Google; it’s just proof that the spreadsheet has remarkable staying power as a workplace tool. The same is true of the word processor, presentation package, database, email client, and a few other eternal verities of business productivity. However, documents and spreadsheets haven’t changed in over 40 years. To turn docs into apps, Coda had to rethink productivity from scratch.

Coda is the brainchild of Shishir Mehrotra and Alex DeNeui, two old friends who met at MIT and then worked together at both Microsoft and YouTube before starting the company. As they were formulating ideas for their startup, they considered the state of productivity tools and then asked themselves, “What if we started from scratch?” explains Mehrotra, now the company’s CEO. “We’re going to build a new type of doc that blends the best parts of all the docs you know: documents, spreadsheets, presentations, applications. The core thesis is that you can build a doc that’s as powerful as an app.”

Shishir is the CEO and cofounder of Coda, a Greylock- and GC-backed startup reimagining the document. He was formerly an executive at YouTube, overseeing the product management, engineering, and design teams. From 2008 to 2014, he helped grow YouTube to the world’s largest video destination, one of Google’s largest and fastest growing businesses, and the platform of choice for a new generation of video creators.

Steven Coutinho is a professional speaker, author and lecturer known for his insights into self-image and how it is programmed by society's stories. His recent book Breaking Rank takes you on a fascinating journey into how the mind has evolved, how it is shaped by society and how it shapes society in turn. Combining evolutionary psychology, neuroscience and a lot of fun, he inspires audiences and organizations to become more conscious of their automatic thoughts, feelings and behaviors - in doing so Steven helps people and groups along their journey towards unleashing their full potential.

Previously Steven was a managing director of RBC Royal Bank of Canada, a strategy consultant and an economic policy adviser to governments across the Caribbean and South America. Steven holds a Masters in Physics cum laude from the University of Groningen, and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

How did you get to know GTD? For Julie, it was a coincidental run-in at the local bookstore where David’s book was on display with a simple sign: Get and Read. She dropped everything to read it twice and decided she needed a GTD consultant to help her out.

Around that time Julie’s successful Ob-Gyn practice was flourishing and introducing the methodical thinking behind Getting Things Done saved both her personal and professional life more than once. Although she describes the mental process as a life-long learning journey, she persists on thinking in terms of desired outcomes and next actions, writing things down and doing a weekly review.

“I appreciate this Summit in Amsterdam as it means the coming together of an extraordinary group of people from all over the world seeking to live sensibly, in a meaningful and purposeful way to the get the most and best out of our lives… to share and give back. This meeting is a great gift upon a gift.“

If you want to know the prime catalyst for the development of GTD, meet Dean Acheson. Early in David Allen’s career, they met, and Dean was willing to mentor him in an elegant organizational change model he had developed over many years. That format included one-on-one coaching for everyone in the organization, which in turn uncovered “open loops” (what we now call the Mind Sweep), and next-action decisions about all of them--clearing the organizational decks to be ready for the changes. If you meet up with Dean at the Summit, be ready for a ride into a very smart universe!

Embracing his inner teen, Mike refuses to grow up and rides an electronic skateboard to work for fun. Mike Williams is a family man, business executive, speaker, executive coach, and co-author of Getting Things Done for Teens with David Allen and Mark Wallace.

Mike served as president and CEO of the David Allen Company from 2010 to 2016. Before that, Mike enjoyed a 20-year career at GE Healthcare. He serves on the board of directors of the Association for Talent Development, he is the GTD Enterprise Architect at Zappos, Inc., and is the founder of the productivity consulting firm enPractice, LLC.

Additionally, Mike is a TEDx speaker and has appeared in magazines such as Inc. and FastCompany, as well as a variety of productivity podcasts. With the publication of Getting Things Done for Teens, Mike is excited to connect and collaborate with GTD practitioners and partners at the 2019 GTD Summit to help bring GTD to students, caring adults, and families worldwide.

Thais is the GTD Brazilian Master Trainer and the author of “Organized Life” (2014), “Organize home” (2016) and “Organized work” (2018). She was first introduced to ‘Getting Things Done’ when she was trying to get her advertising team under control and, since then, she “breathes projects for breakfast”. She’s been a hardcore GTD’er for more than a decade and has shared her experiences on how to deal with an overwhelmed workflow on her blog since 2006. As part of a Master Degree in Communication, Work and Technology, Thais studies and explores productivity apps and its relation to productivity.

A seasoned entrepreneur and business builder with more than 30 years of experience, Tom is a recognized leader in self-organization practices and methods. In 2007, he co-founded HolacracyOne, LLC to further develop and mature Holacracy®, now a gold-standard replacement for conventional management hierarchies. Tom is currently a Founding Member and Partner at encode.org, an organization focused on creating necessary legal, financial and social structures that support self-organization and the new world of work. Tom is an active entrepreneur having been involved with five early stage companies prior to encode.org. He is an advisor and mentor to other entrepreneurs and remains a Partner and investor at HolacracyOne, LLC.

Wendy Haddad is a Service Manager at a Fortune 500 entertainment company. Over the past four years, she has challenged employees to think differently about the way they work and the tools they use. As a Customer Success Manager, Wendy led hundreds of webinars, classes, and workshops and she recently transitioned to a new role as a decision maker working to create strategic roadmaps to help empower employees with the technologies in her portfolio. In a previous role, she created and managed the Educational Technology department at The Master's University in California, where she led the transition to a new Learning Management System that impacted over 1,000 faculty, administrators, and students.

Wendy is passionate about personal and team productivity, and often helps friends and coworkers become more productive in their personal and professional lives. The Getting Things Done Methodology became a regular childhood study as part of her home school curriculum, and Wendy credits these skills with helping her achieve a double major and double minor and graduating Summa Cum Laude, as well as contributing to her early success in the workplace.

Having started five successful companies and consulted to leadership teams around the world, Russell has become a recognized expert in personal and organization transformation, helping individuals and companies create unparalleled success. One of the early pioneers in the field of large group personal development, he created Insight Seminars in 1978, followed by Insight Consulting Group. In the mid-1980's he co-founded Productivity Development Group along with David Allen. To date, well over one million people in 43 countries have participated in seminars designed by Russell. Russell worked with Arianna Huffington to build out several sections of Healthy Living and served as Editorial Director for the Huffington Post's GPS for the Soul. His weekly blogs focusing on improving the quality of personal and professional life have been read by tens of thousands of readers.

Maggie embodies a lifetime passion for supporting people to live and work joyfully and powerfully together. With a 40-year career of consulting and strategic design where each can contribute new ideas, principles, and perspectives that become integral and dynamic in an organization’s DNA and offers in the market place.

Within this context, Maggie’s work focuses on clarifying and designing an organization of accountability and relationship. She dives into an entity’s understanding of both the formal and informal agreements which frame how the organization actually works in a results-oriented culture. Her work has spanned from Fortune 100 companies, small and medium-sized enterprises, non-profit organizations, governments, multilateral bodies such as the United Nations, grassroots organizations, and many others.

Mark is an author, speaker and educator. He has spent over 20 years teaching in the public school system. He currently works in a multi-age elementary classroom in the Minneapolis area. Over the past decade, he has established GTD as a classroom framework and coached GTD habits and behaviors to students as young as 6 years old. In 2015, Mark established Basecamp 16 LLC, a consulting agency whose focus is on equipping K-12 students and professional educators in both their educational and personal journey.

In the summer of 2017 Mark co-authored Getting Things Done for Teens with Mike Williams and David Allen. In the fall of 2018, he presented at TEDx where he spoke on Equipping the Next Generation to Conquer Overload and Distraction. His speaking and consulting experience includes a wide range of clients from students, teachers, parents, schools, administrative staff, churches, school districts and larger educational conferences. He holds firmly to the vision of establishing GTD as a common language and core educational experience for all students worldwide.

Mark resides in Bloomington, MN and is a husband and proud father of four young kids.

Ismael Ghalimi is a passionate entrepreneur and fervent industry observer, founder and CEO of Intalio, creator of BPMI.org, and producer of the Office 2.0 Conference. Ismael sits on the Boards of Directors of BuzzGain, Egnyte, and Tonido and is an advisor for 3TERA (acquired by CA), EchoSign, EveryTrail, Intellimaker, Move & Play, Muchobene, and Presdo. Ismael holds a Masters degree from Ecole des Mines de Nancy, and actually spent six weeks as a coal miner in Europe s deepest mine. Ismael is a professional scuba diver and instrument rated private pilot. As CEO of Stoic, he is currently changing the way people think about business applications. With Stoic, anyone can create a mobile app, as easily as using a spreadsheet.

Rick Kantor is a Creativity speaker, professor, creative consultant and coach. His enthusiasm for being the catalyst that unlocks the creativity that lies within organizations and individuals is built on decades of starting companies, designing products, and entrepreneurial ventures including a novelty and Halloween company, a California eco-showroom and gallery, decorative painting and interiors businesses in New York City. In addition to degrees in Fine Arts and Psychology, Rick earned a Masters Degree in Creativity and Innovation from Drexel University, where he is currently adjunct faculty, teaching Creativity in the Workplace online to graduate students and executives. He has written a chapter in the Talent Management Handbook, 3 rd Edition 2017 by Berger and Berger; his chapter entitled “Art as Open Source Intelligence” won first prize at the Knowledge, Innovation and Enterprise conference 2015. Other written works include “Intelligence and Creativity Reconsidered”, and “8 Lessons of the Creative Workplace learned at Cirque du Soleil “ for the NHRC Human Resources conference in Sri Lanka 2016. He serves as Faculty Advisor to Harvard Business Publishing and is Secretary of the American Creativity Association.

Rick has always believed that creativity is both our birthright and a skill set that can be learned and strengthened. It is how we will collaboratively discover, invent and build the path to planetary wellbeing and survival. Since his first seminar with David Allen in 1984, GTD is the way of thinking that allows his own creative thoughts to be captured, clarified and completed.

Wonder what it’s like being in the mind of an investigative journalist with a GTD spin on it? Pulitzer Prize winner Charles Duhigg wrote two bestsellers on both habit forming and the science of productivity. Faced with the most daunting and busy period in both his personal and private life, Charles decided to go on a mission. He wanted to uncover the secrets of people more productive than himself and share these insights with the world. Smarter Faster Better became a groundbreaking exploration of the science of productivity, helping people all over the world succeed with less stress.

Fun fact: Charles spent exactly one day being a bike messenger in San Francisco. Instead of being a rider, he became a writer.

Sabri Eryigit is a strategy consultant and GTD coach. He is convinced that a strong purpose is fundamental for successful strategies and a fulfilled life. Sabri supports people in creating peace of mind and he accompanies organizations in developing strategies on national and international level. In his work he focuses on establishing the strategy on all focus horizons from Purpose to Next Action. Sabri has an excellent sense for strategic potential and limits. By posing surprising questions and giving thought-provoking impulses he successfully opens up a constructive discourse all the way up into top management, thus enabling a change of perspective and maximizing the effectiveness of strategic work. Clients also value Sabri’s energy and dynamic approach.

Deb Smith-Hemphill owns and manages her own successful management consulting business in California. To date, she has inspired countless professionals on their road to executive readiness, organizational effectivity and team productivity.

As early as 1999, Deb wrote a book about using Internet to get more done in less time by optimizing new tools such as e-mail, search engines and… online reservations. It’s no wonder she has been able to grow her company to its current state with 6 offices working in 14 different countries.

She has been implementing GTD since discovering David’s method in 2000 and became an official licensed trainer in 2017, propelling this process of thinking in many business oriented workshops.

William is a sought-after facilitator, executive coach and psychologist bringing his 20 years of experience to every situation. He applies insights from human sciences to real life challenges people face in their work environment. With a Bachelor’s in Business and a Master’s in Psychology he pins abstract concepts down to the pragmatic use one can instantly use so learnings don’t get lost.

Working with some of the best and the brightest in the corporate world, William's broad range of education and experience enables him to apply insights from human sciences to the real life challenges in the modern workplace. Expect to be given very practical examples and challenges, since he holds that “learning without application is just costly wheel-spinning”

Major General Randal D. Fullhart (USAF Retired) is currently the commandant of cadets at Virginia Tech, USA. He is a command pilot with more than 3,500 flying hours in multiple Air Force planes. He’s commanded at the squadron, group, and wing levels and commanded two expeditionary flying squadrons, an expeditionary operations group in Operation Allied Force, and an expeditionary wing in Operation Iraqi Freedom. In addition, he has served as the military commander, Air Force Studies and Analyses Agency and commandant of the Air Command and Staff College. His major awards and decorations would fill a web page. Randy bought into GTD years ago and has included its best practices in training thousands of young people in the military.

“It has taken 3 decades for me to become the coach I want to be: years of my own entrepreneurial ventures teaching me how to surmount the personal and professional challenges we all face in pursuit of living our own best and authentic lives.”

Richard’s unique career path began as an internationally acclaimed choreographer and dancer in Europe and New York City. His work in the Arts included; his own dance company, working on Broadway, the Montreal Jazz Festival, national tours and industrial trade shows. In recent years he parlayed this theatrical experience into the launch of his own production company to invest and produce original musical theatre pieces for the Broadway stage, as well as design and manufacture licensed theatrical souvenir products.

Richard is a certified Integral Coach (PCC and ICF certified) and serves as an adjunct faculty member of New Ventures West. Richard’s expertise includes his well-honed organizational skills, his talent for implementing creative ideas in the marketplace and a proven business savvy fueled by entrepreneurial persistence and zeal. Equally important are his listening and counseling skills, utilized weekly as a volunteer facilitator of hospice grief support groups for adults and teens. He serves as a volunteer certified non-sectarian chaplain with Sonoma Law Enforcement. He is a professional Mediator. He also officiates weddings and funerals and serves as a Board member for Partners in Sustainable Learning. Richard is currently coaching at Wharton's EMBA program, Arthur Gallagher and Medtronic Pharmaceutical and has been coaching at additional fortune 500 companies.

Increasingly, organisations focus on creating thriving personnel and workplaces. Happiness@work is not an oxymoron! Personnel can be healthier, more creative, motivated and productive. Mary Jane shares seriously fun but practical, science based tips, tools and knowledge, so people and organisations can flourish. Employees learn resiliency skills for when LIFE happens.

Mary Jane is an adviser, facilitator, presenter and coach to organizations large and small. Her specialties are in stress/resiliency/emotional management and in enhancing work-life integration; last, but not least, she is a writer. Her goal is to create thriving workplaces, where happiness is the new norm and to bring solutions to enhance engagement in the workplace.

Edward Lamont brings you more than 15 years of experience in the areas of leadership, productivity, and motivation.

After years of changing the way the world works one room at a time, his more recent focus has been in increasing the impact of GTD coaching by working with clients to create a shift in their organisational working culture. Setting up a supportive organisational context for individual learning, Ed now finds it’s well possible to change the expectations that people have of what a ‘normal’ working practice is. This way he is able to reinstall a work-life balance for people while they can get meaningful things done in a reasonable time.

Talking about balance, don’t be surprised when Ed comes on stage walking a slackline.

A consultant, executive coach, speaker, and entrepreneur for over 30 years, Eric has worked with over 200 corporate and government clients on productive use of technology, information, and knowledge. Like many of his clients, Eric has had to figure out how to make a greater impact at work with less effort, all while managing ever-higher volumes of input. This quest culminated in Eric's unique Intentionally Productive™ approach, a set of powerful principles and practices resulting from his experience and education in the fields of knowledge management, productive work-methods, and technology. Eric uses this approach to help his clients work smarter with their existing tools.

In the course of his career, Eric has designed the GTD-enabled™ productivity tools used and recommended by David Allen, served as David's chief technologist, earned a Master’s in Information and Knowledge Management, and homeschooled his four daughters in GTD. Currently, Eric is consulting for a leading healthcare organization to help them use his Intentionally Productive approach to transform the way they work and make a greater impact on the people they serve.

Marko Kassenaar is an author, speaker and musician. Combining these activities, he has a unique position in Amsterdam’s and The Netherlands’ art scene. He is the only specialist working for both the Royal Concertgebouw and the Rijksmuseum. In the latter, he regularly functions as a VIP host and speecher. Furthermore, he acts as an exclusive guide for high-end guests visiting The Netherlands.

Marko Kassenaar publishes on a wide variety of subjects in art and music history. He co-operated on ‘RIJKS, Masters of the Golden Age’, the spectacular book project by designer Marcel Wanders, on the paintings of the Dutch Masters from the 17th century. He contributed to the latest edition of the highly successful ‘Kingdom by the Sea’, on five hundred years of Dutch architectural heritage, and ´Secrets of a Master Painter´, the book accompanying the awarded TV show on legendary painters.

Spencer Hanlon (46) was recently Managing Director, COO & CTO of AirPlus International GmbH, one of Europe’s largest Corporate Credit Card providers serving customers globally in over 60+ markets. AirPlus International, a 27-year-old company of 1,200+ people, based in Frankfurt, Germany is wholly owned by Lufthansa and is part of the Lufthansa Group.

At AirPlus, Spencer Hanlon was responsible for the company’s IT, Processing, Demand and Project Management functions and is also leading an Enterprise Wide IT Architecture transformation project (MasterPlan), to modernize and standardize AirPlus’ legacy systems and processes.

Spencer Hanlon has worked with AirPlus for the past 16 years and prior to that spent a decade working for British Airways in majority overseas commercial management roles. A Qualified Management Accountant (CIMA), Spencer studied at the University of Newcastle in the United Kingdom, is married with two children and lives in the UK, just outside of London.

David Arnoux is a growth marketing expert and serial entrepreneur. He has helped over 500 companies implement and execute growth strategies. David Arnoux has founded 4 companies in the last 12 years (2 of which have a value of 5 million euros). He is currently Head of Growth at Growth Tribe, growth coach for startups and corporates, a public speaker and a contributor to publications such as The Next Web.