Tony Schwartz

Tony Schwartz is the founder and CEO of The Energy Project and the bestselling author of The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working, a groundbreaking book that introduced the world to the concept of managing energy rather than time as the key to sustained high performance.

The Man Who Changed How We Think About Performance

Schwartz began his career as a journalist, serving as a reporter for The New York Times and co-authoring The Art of the Deal with Donald Trump. His career took a pivotal turn when he began researching what enables people to perform at their best sustainably. The Energy Project, which he founded, has worked with major organizations worldwide including Google, Apple, Facebook, Coca-Cola, and the Los Angeles Police Department, teaching leaders and teams how to manage their physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual energy for peak performance without burnout.

Building Sustainable High Performance

Schwartz’s research-backed framework challenges the conventional wisdom that working longer and harder produces better results. His books also include Be Excellent at Anything and The Power of Full Engagement, co-authored with Jim Loehr. His keynotes deliver transformative insights on managing energy for sustainable performance, avoiding burnout while maintaining productivity, building organizational cultures that fuel rather than drain their people, and the science of renewal that enables lasting excellence.

Fueling Sustainable High Performance

There’s a better way to work. Human beings aren’t meant to operate in the same way computers do: continuously, at high speed, and running multiple programs at the same time. Still, we try. It’s a prescription for exhaustion. Schwartz shows audiences a new path to achieve breakthrough and sustainable high performance – starting today. We’re at our best when we move between periods of expending energy and briefly recovering. That rhythm builds capacity. This is something the world’s best athletes and trainers have known for years. The more skillfully and systematically we learn to manage our four sources of energy — physical (quantity), emotional (quality), mental (focus), and spiritual (purpose) — the more resilient, focused, engaged and sustainably productive we become.

Some key takeaways from this presentation:

– Learn how to build breakthrough sustainable high performance starting today

– Stop multi-tasking and start focusing to accomplish better results in less time

– Learn to manage the four energy states and build capacity that will change your life

– How to build in intermittent renewal – the counter-intuitive key to sustaining high performance

– Why the most fundamental role of a leader is to serve as the Chief Energy Officer

Becoming A Chief Energy Officer: Leading Sustainable High Performance

As demand in our lives outpaces our capacity, the fundamental responsibility of any leader is to mobilize, focus, inspire and sustain the energy of those they lead – and fuel sustainable high performance. Today’s leader needs to be a Chief Energy Officer. The challenge ahead is to invest in better meeting people’s needs, so they’re freed, fueled and inspired to bring more of themselves to work every day. We each have four energy needs — physical (sustainability); emotional (security); mental (self-expression) and spiritual (significance). When leaders begin by taking care of their own energy needs, and empower those they lead to do the same, the result is workforce that is healthier, happier, more focused, more motivated and higher performing. Leaders at many of the world’s top companies have applied Tony Schwartz’s principles and practices — both in their own lives and across their organizations – and experienced extraordinary results.

Some key takeaways from this presentation:

– A clear understanding of what it means to be a Chief Energy Officer

– How to meet the four core needs to increase engagement and capacity

– A 20 question Leader Audit assesses current rating as Chief Energy Officer

– Balance self-care with care for team – each serves the other and everyone benefits