Productivity Strategist, Author & Keynote Speaker
peggy sullivan
TOPICS - • Burnout • Employee Engagement
• Future of Work • Leadership
• Organizational Culture • Peak Performance
• Productivity • Resilience • Time Management
• Work-Life Balance • Workplace Wellbeing
peggy sullivan - PROGRAMS
- Peak Performance: Achieve More by Doing Less
- A blueprint for leaders and teams to reclaim capacity, focus on what matters most, and perform at their best.
- Purpose-Driven Leadership: Meaning Over Mayhem
- Help leaders create greater clarity, capacity, and purpose while building resilient, high-performing teams.
- Workplace Wellbeing: Mojo-Making
- Create a healthier, higher-performing workplace culture that strengthens engagement, performance, and the bottom line.
- Revenue Capacity: Reclaim Selling Time. Grow Revenue.
- Help sales teams reclaim time lost to admin, meetings, and internal friction and redirect it toward customers, pipeline, and revenue growth.
- Capacity for AI: Create the Space for Adoption and ROI
- Give teams the capacity to learn, adopt, and embed AI so technology investment translates into meaningful business results.
I help high-performing professionals and organizations to escape time poverty, reclaim clarity, and thrive without burnout.
-Peggy Sullivan
“Peggy is an unforgettable speaker. Her unique ability to engage with storytelling, use data to support her messages and bring high energy to her audience is truly remarkable.”
-German Santana, Head of Revenue Google
“In today’s hustle society our most precious resource is our time. Peggy’s Performance by Design framework guides individuals, teams and organizations to a higher level of productivity, focus and engagement.”
-Vanessa Oguchi, Hubspot
“Peggy was a rock star and is fantastic to work with. She was diligent in understanding our needs and pulling that into a road map that adds real value. Everyone raved about her.”
-Dr Thomas Hartnett , CEO Blue Cross Blue Shield
“Peggy’s work is inspirational and thought provoking.”
-Sheri Sullivan, Ernst Young
“Peggy’s speaking is quite impressive. She focuses on the How and Why. She knows how to connect.”
-Laura Dolan, Bank Of America
“An amazing energizing thought provoking session”
-Johnson & Johnson
I have been going to meetings and conferences for 25 years and have seen many, many speakers. I was instantly interested, entertained, and learned something new, useful, and inspiring from you. You are talented, funny, and insightful.”
-JoAnne Alaimo, Senior VP Merrill Lynch
“Thank you so much for being a part of this year’s Women’s Leadership Conference. I’m incredibly grateful for the generous spirit, insights and vulnerability you shared with our alums, students and friends.”
-Elena Thompson, John Hopkins University
“Speaker Peggy Sullivan was outstanding. She gave the audience so much energy, we laughed out loud and participated. I would actively seek out more of her conferences and talks to attend. Her closing speech touched my heart, and I got all glossy-eyed!
-Lynne Thorton, Executive Director, Ingram Micro
“Thank you for speaking at our annual meeting people are still talking about your stories and actionable framework for escaping time poverty. The association got more than we expected. This isn’t just a good keynote, it has a lasting impression.”
-Scott Palmer, Builders and Remodelers Association
“Peggy Sullivan is by far one of the most engaging and informative speakers I’ve ever seen. Peggy is a driven leader supporting women of all ages, races, and socio-economic status. Thousands of women have been touched by her speeches.”
-Susan Freed-Oestreicher, Vice President, M&T Ban
“Peggy’s energy is so contagious. Not only did we learn how to reclaim our most precious resource our time but we really enjoyed her stories. Financial associations are usually less than engaged, but not with Peggy she lit our group up”
-Katie Haylee, Healthcare Financial Management Association
“Peggy helped our association unlock their most precious asset their time. The travel industry needs a roadmap to focus on what’s important. This speech delivers”
-American Bus Association, Vicki Osman
“High energy, actionable, and relevant! Peggy’s keynote on Escaping Time Poverty is a much-needed concept for Realtors and pretty much anyone. We loved every second.”
-Jennifer Yeo, President Utah Board of Realtors
“Peggy is positively focused on supporting the growth and development of people who are determined and driven. Get yourself into a room with Peggy, and get inspired!”
-David Meerman Scott
“Peggys message was insightful and practical in helping team rise to their potential.”
-Justin King, American Heart
“Practical strategies, Actionable next steps and a crowd pleaser”
-Cindy Oppenheimer, United Health Optum Group
“Engaging, inspiring, educational, and actionable.”
-Carolyn Gitlin, Jewish Federation
peggy sullivan - Biography
Peggy Sullivan is a keynote speaker, author, and leading voice on Time Poverty, workplace capacity, and performance.
She helps leaders and organizations address a growing challenge in the workplace: too much to do and too little time for the work that matters most. Her work explores how overloaded calendars, competing priorities, unnecessary meetings, constant interruptions, and low-value work quietly consume capacity and limit performance.
Drawing on original workplace research and years of working with leaders and teams, Peggy challenges the traditional pursuit of productivity and asks a more valuable question: how can we create the capacity for people to do their best work?
Her approach, Performance by Design, helps organizations identify where time and attention are being lost, rethink how work gets done, and reclaim capacity for the priorities that drive performance, growth, innovation, and meaningful results. By reducing the hidden cost of workplace busyness, organizations can make better use of their people and resources, improve performance, and ultimately strengthen the bottom line.
Peggy is the author of Beyond Busyness: How to Achieve More by Doing Less and creator of the Time Poverty Index, a research-backed assessment that identifies the root causes of workplace busyness.
Known for her energetic, relatable, and practical speaking style, Peggy gives audiences more than inspiration. She provides a new way to think about time, capacity, and performance, together with actionable strategies they can put to work immediately.
Her message is simple: when organizations stop measuring success by how busy people are and start designing for capacity, people perform better, leaders lead better, and everyone has more space for the work and life that matter.
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peggy sullivan - MEDIA
Beyond Busyness: How to Achieve More by Doing Less
Too much to do. Too little time. It has become the reality of modern work, leaving people exhausted and organizations struggling to create the capacity for what matters most.
In Beyond Busyness, keynote speaker and author Peggy Sullivan combines her personal experience with research and practical strategies to explore why we have become trapped in a culture that equates being busy with being productive.
Peggy introduces her signature Busy Busting Process, a practical three-step approach to reclaiming time, reducing low-value activity, and creating more capacity for the work and life that matter.
Practical, relatable, and grounded in Peggy’s research into workplace busyness, Beyond Busyness challenges readers to rethink their relationship with time and discover how to achieve more without simply doing more.
Beyond Busyness is an Amazon bestseller in Workplace Wellbeing and is available in print and Kindle editions.
