MAURA NEVEL THOMAS is an award-winning international speaker, trainer, and author on individual and corporate productivity and work-life balance, and the most widely-cited authority on attention management. She helps driven, motivated knowledge workers control their attention and regain control over the details of their life and work. Maura has worked with thousands of organizations offering her proprietary Empowered Productivity™ System, a process for achieving significant results and living a life of choice. Maura’s clients include Dell, the U.S. Army, L’Oréal, and Adobe. She is a TEDx speaker, successful entrepreneur, and author of Personal Productivity Secrets (2012) and Work Without Walls (2017). She is a media favorite, featured in hundreds of national business outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, US News and World Report, and the Huffington Post. She’s a regular contributor to both Forbes and the Harvard Business Review, with articles there viewed over a million times.
Her published works on Empowered Productivity include Attention Management (2019), From To Do To Done (2021), and more that will eventually be a four-book series, published by Sourcebooks Ignite Reads. Also available in audio from Recorded Books.