Juliet Funt

Author of A Minute To Think

Juliet Funt

Author of A Minute To Think

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Biography

Featured in top media outlets such as Forbes, CNBC, Fast Company, and NPR, Juliet Funt is a globally renowned keynote speaker, tough-love advisor to the Fortune 500, founder and CEO of the efficiency training firm, Juliet Funt Group.

Juliet is the author of A Minute to Think, nominated for the Next Big Idea Club curated by Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Dan Pink.

She is an evangelist for freeing the potential of companies by unburdening their talent from busywork, and she has brought her powerful concepts to Spotify, National Geographic, Anthem, Vans, Abbott, Costco, Pepsi, Nike, Wells Fargo, Sephora, Sysco, and ESPN.

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DE-CRAPIFY YOUR WORKFLOW! | Reducing Waste to Amplify Results

Today’s organizations set aggressive targets while teams struggle to direct their effort toward the work that genuinely moves the business forward. Critical projects lose momentum as top performers leave, stall in their roles, or quietly disengage. Hiring more people is not the answer.

The necessary shift is from activity to productivity and from reactive motion to measurable results. This session provides practical tools and straightforward frameworks to identify low value work, clarify ownership at every level, and streamline execution across the organization. Participants learn a Reductive Mindset that removes non-value-adding touchpoints, cuts meeting and email load, and concentrates time on strategic priorities that drive competitive advantage. The outcome is reclaimed capacity, faster throughput, and clearer lines of accountability that support sustainable growth without adding headcount.

STRATEGIC CHOICE | The Missing Ingredient in Your Prioritization Plan

Most teams today are significantly overloaded. Ambition and external pressure combine to create long lists of competing priorities, unclear tradeoffs, and cascading rework that slows progress across the board. Effective leaders understand that they must do more than simply prioritize tasks. They actively reduce the overall load and allocate time to the few high-leverage actions that advance revenue and drive measurable results. We call that discipline Strategic Choice, and it functions as recurring maintenance that keeps work appropriately trimmed even as demands continue to grow. This session introduces the Spin Launcher model, an executive tool that demonstrates how focused time, carved out from the clutter of low-value activity, can accelerate critical projects with the concentrated force of a successful launch. Participants engage in targeted exercises designed to eliminate process drag, reset ownership with clarity, and make confident decisions about what to stop, what to streamline, and what to speed up. The result is an energized team that operates with the precision and velocity that every executive group desires.

FEED THE FIRE | Going Upstream from Turnover

Turnover represents one of the most expensive and preventable drains on company performance in today’s competitive environment. Every departure costs months of lost productivity, extensive retraining investment, and diminished cultural momentum that can take quarters to rebuild. Yet most organizations focus their retention efforts only after the damage has already been done, relying on perks, pay adjustments, or short-term incentives rather than addressing the everyday operational patterns that systematically push talented people out. This session takes leaders upstream to reveal the operational and behavioral root causes of attrition, from consistently overloading high performers to allowing work to feel meaningless, misaligned with company values, or disconnected from impact. Participants will learn how to diagnose these silent warning signals early in the employee lifecycle, redesign work structures so they fuel genuine commitment rather than quiet resignation, and rebuild the sense of purpose and connection that keeps top talent engaged, motivated, and choosing to stay longer.

Testimonials

“Juliet Funt makes a compelling case for a tactic that’s both critically important and distressingly overlooked: the strategic pause. If you regularly feel overwhelmed by your work, read this book!"

- Cal Newport, New York Times Best-selling author of A World Without Email and Deep Work

“I absolutely loved A Minute to Think. It’s one of the most captivating and relevant approaches to solving busyness I’ve read. Juliet’s energetic style and practical insights play a pivotal role as we long to pause yet be more productive and creative in this next decade of hybrid working.”

- Former SVP Apple Retail and CEO Burberr

“This smart, funny business book is brimming with actionable tools. It’s certain to make any team stronger.”

- Patrick Lencioni, President, The Table Group; New York Times bestselling author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

“My decades of experience in the productivity arena have taught me you don’t need more time—you need more room—room to be creative , to be strategic, and simply to be present in whatever you’re doing. Juliet provides a clear warning of why that’s so critical these days and an elegant and easily followed manual of how to achieve it.”

- David Allen, International best-selling author of Getting Things Done

“Rarely has an author produced something so immediately relevant and profoundly important to balancing my life and to my daily practices at work. Reading A Minute to Think is an investment in getting the most out of our most precious of commodity—time. Bravo."

- Vice President of Global Marketing, Google

“Juliet Funt is a master of time management. She recognizes the need to attack busyness with a vengeance and has helped organizations and leaders reclaim their productivity for years. If you find yourself with too much to do and needing A Minute to Think, this book will help you refocus, realign, and reenergize.”

- Craig Groeschel, Pastor of Life.Church and New York Times Best-Selling Author

“Like many, I spent most of my life convinced that busy was the same as productive. That’s how I fed my self-esteem for years. But reading A Minute to Think, I have finally and fully understood what Aristotle said, “the quality of life is determined by its activities.”

- CEO, Grant Thornton LLP

“I wish I wrote this book.”

- John Cleese, Comedy Legend