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Zena Everett

Business leadership coach and author lectures on improving productivity in the workplace. She transforms internal cultures with a focus on task completions, workflows, and team communications.

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We had a great session moderated by Zena at the Growth & Emerging Market Legal Summit in Istanbul. Zena was able to give a highly entertaining and valuable masterclass on Highest and Best Use, helping our legal team to show up as trusted strategic advisors in a very challenging business environment. I would recommend Zena to legal departments discussing the transformation from legal professionals to strategic leaders. In addition to that, Zena may give plenty of time management tips for your team to be successful while keeping the work and life balance!

Alexey Neishpapa

Chief of Staff (Legal), Head Counsel Access to Medicines and Vaccines, Growth & Emerging Markets

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Reasons to book Zena Everett

Audiences enjoy Zena Everett's interactive presentations on prioritizing work and avoiding distractions in the workplace. Listeners receive actionable steps for clearly defining business objectives and reaching crucial milestones.
By offering powerful tools for transforming internal workflows, Everett helps listeners improve productivity. Her masterclasses help encourage in-person and virtual workforces to optimize time for optimal productivity.
A popular author, Everett combines insights about psychology, behavior, and neuroscience to retrain the brain for success. Her writings delve into these topics in detail and promote overall wellbeing.

As an internationally recognized business coach, Everett offers masterclasses to help audiences improve productivity and remain focused on tasks. Her engaging presentation helps stakeholders eliminate barriers to team performance. From dealing with unexpected challenges to achieving targeted milestones, she offers practical strategies to improve efficiency. Her interactive presentations guide listeners to target high-value objectives while keeping repetitive interruptions from derailing daily milestones.

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Keynotes

Keynote topic by Zena Everett: Crazy Busy: Do Better Work in Less Time

When do you have time to yourself? To pause, think strategically, take a step back, focus on what’s important or do some deep work?

That’s easier said than done when it feels like everyone needs a bit of your attention. How many times are you interrupted every day? We switch from one task to another, like a never-ending game of Whack A Mole. We have far too many meetings, and work is eating into our personal time.

24/7 digital connectedness doesn’t help and nor do the 300 billion emails sent every single day. This highly practical and very interactive session will give you some evidence based models to help you feel more in control of your time. It’s all about ruthless prioritisation, learning to say no well, disconnecting, and knowing when good enough is better than perfect.

OBJECTIVES:

Ensure your schedule matches your values and priorities (antelopes, not fieldmice).

Eliminate roadblocks to personal and team productivity.

Prioritising tasks with the greatest payoff for success and happiness.

INCLUDES:

More effective meetings, emails, IM and social media use.

Stop ‘switch-tasking’ (what you thought was multi-tasking) and get into flow.

Focus your time on tasks that move the needle, without procrastinating.

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Keynote topic by Zena Everett: Productivity Drag & How to Clear It

How to increase productivity, efficiency and wellbeing.

Why are some companies more productive than others and have higher profit margins per head? It’s how these businesses manage time, energy and talent that makes the difference. Top performers deal better with what researchers call ‘productivity drag’. This is the chronic friction that compounds to slow down operations, such as inefficient meetings, low-value tasks that bulk up workloads, lengthy decision-making, and endless digital interruptions. No wonder we feel wired and tired.

Research shows we waste as much as 25% of our time this way: at least a lost day per week. We’d never waste any other resource like this. We hire the best talent, then get in their way.

Removing productivity drag is the vital bridge between strategy and execution. This lively masterclass is full of practical tools and research to help you clear productivity drag and increase productivity, wellbeing and engagement.

OBJECTIVES:

Speed up workflow by removing the causes of drag.

Enhance project management and prioritisation skills.

Clear complexity and add energy.

Improve communication and collaboration whilst removing complexity.

Increase motivation and retention.

INCLUDES:

Better email and meeting management.

Sequencing of tasks and improved planning.

Cut back on switch tasking and synchronous working.

Headspace model for time audit.

Managing the workflow, not the workers.

Building in time to think strategically.

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Keynote topic by Zena Everett: Brains, Resilience & High Performance

How to thrive under pressure

Our brains are our greatest asset. How well do you take care of yours?

We rely on high functioning brains to make decisions, grasp complex problems and come up with creative solutions quickly. At the same time, we have to regulate our emotional response to maintain a resilient, flexible mindset.

24/7 demands mean many of us neglect our powerful brain/body/gut connection. You wouldn’t drive your car without adequate fuel, water, oil and an annual service; do you treat yourself with the same care?

This fascinating and fun masterclass will combine concepts from neuroscience, organisational psychology, and cognitive-behavioural coaching to help you train your brain and promote your neuroplasticity, resilience, and wellbeing.

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Keynote topic by Zena Everett: Crazy Busy: Team & Personal Productivity

Do you feel like a slave to your inbox and your smartphone? Overwhelmed? Do you go home after a too long day, feeling exhausted, but frustrated that you have made very little progress?

Most of us spend our days responding to urgent needs … other people’s urgent needs. Our priorities are ruled by our in-box, not the other way round. We respond to what (or who) is screaming in front of us, not what we know we should really be doing in order to achieve our own objectives.

We are Crazy Busy. We confuse being efficient with being effective.

In a ten-year study conducted by McKinsey, executives reported that they were five times more productive when they worked in a state of optimal concentration called flow. That means that they could get as much done by the end of Monday than their steady-state peers did in a whole week.

McKinsey said that if we could all just increase the time we spend in flow by 15 – 20%, overall workplace productivity would almost double. When did you last do some deep thinking, highly productive and uninterrupted tasks?

Outcomes:

More control over how to achieve your priority tasks (such as planning, winning business, building relationships).

Better communication with internal stakeholders to get more important things done more quickly.

Less procrastination, perfectionism and people pleasing.

Improved personal effectiveness, energy and wellbeing.

Shorter internal meetings (feedback is that my techniques have cut them short by an average, one third).

Techniques to manage your inbox so it doesn’t manage you.

Go home earlier, with more stuff done and learn to switch off.

Be five times more productive than you are now – so five times more successful.

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Customer Reviews

Alexey Neishpapa Chief of Staff (Legal), Head Counsel Access to Medicines and Vaccines, Growth & Emerging Markets

We kindly gave Zena the after-lunch spot at our recent members' day, but she kept everyone of their toes with her crazy busy session. It was full of pragmatic and simple tips to get and maintain control and delivered in an engaging style - oh and the slides were stunning.

Andrew Chalk Director of Operations at the British Blind & Shutter Association

Highly recommended!! We had a session with Zena and our sales team; Zena offer lots of practical tips and tricks to reduce the overwhelm in crazy busy times. We have already implemented many of the ideas with great success!!

Jon Humble Sales & Marketing Manager at Delta Surgical Ltd

Zena spoke at our kickoff event for 150 + recruitment business leaders and ran a really interactive engaging session to help them develop the focus and productivity of both themselves and their business. The value members took away was huge because of Zena's ability to communicate and engage. The session was packed full of really applicable proven tactics and strategies that was of no surprise having read her brilliant book The Crazy Busy Book. I can't recommend Zena highly enough - quality, engaging value delivered with humour and so many take aways. Thank you Zena

Gordon Stoddart Co Founder of The Recruitment Network (Int), TRN World and Innergy

Zena was an outstanding coach when I did my EMBA at the University of Oxford’s Said Business School. She helped to shape and articulate my thinking on my future goals and aspirations. I highly recommend her services to any executive that requires a business coach.

Olwethu Mafanya Chairperson at Espin Capital (Pty) Ltd

The audience was transfixed and very engaged by Zena's presentation on How to get more done at a recent accountancy conference I attended. She has a great professional style, loads of evident experience and was clearly focused on delivering a value packed session that will have a lasting impact on the attendees. Well done and thank you Zena.

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Zena Everett

Eliminating workplace distractions for high-level performance

As a sought-after speaker and coach Zena Everett helps audiences remove barriers to career success. Her techniques include a cross section of neuroscience and business performance strategies. Taking a page from her popular books,
Mind Flip
and
Crazy Busy Cure
, Everett introduces audiences to refreshing strategies for transforming efficiency in both virtual and office environments.

After selling her recruiting firm in 2007, Zena returned to school to study career coaching, neuroscience, and management. As a regular speaker, she encourages listeners to solve problems with creativity. Understanding the importance of the mind-body connection, she encourages stakeholders to take good care of both for optimal performance at work. Guiding attendees to overcome complex issues with a flexible mindset, Everett introduces strategies for creating and maintaining optimal workflows for enhanced team performance.

As a coach for Oxford University’s Executive MBA program at Saïd Business School, she has provided students with strategies for staying on task at work to improve efficiency. Everett is also an associate member of the faculty at Henley Business School.

Zena Everett transforms the way business employees and departments work together. Her groundbreaking tools for optimizing efficiency are lauded by past workshop participants. Leveraging her education and experience coaching high-performing teams, she helps businesses establish the framework for unprecedented efficiency.