The Top Productivity Coaches
Ever wondered how top productivity coaches manage to stay ahead of the game? In this article, I’ve gathered insights from some of the leading minds in the coaching world.
Each coach brings a unique perspective and approach to helping others achieve peak productivity.
From practical, solution-based methods to coaching tailored for generalists and specialists alike, their strategies are as diverse as their backgrounds.
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In Brief : The Top Productivity Coaches
- Lindsay Davis – Lindsay is an internationally certified entrepreneur coach, speaker, and founder of Gray Coaching and Effortless Entrepreneur, specializing in strategic risk management and helping global business leaders achieve profitability and alignment in their lives and ventures.
- Clare Evans – Clare Evans, an expert in time management and productivity, offers a practical, solution-based approach to help professionals manage their busy lives effectively.
- Patrick Farleyl – Patrick Farley specializes in coaching generalists, offering unique support to those with diverse interests and talents.
- Grace Marshall – Grace Marshall empowers individuals to adopt new ways of working and thinking about productivity, replacing stress with success and satisfaction.
- Ellen Faye – Ellen Faye leverages her high standards for excellence and innate business sense to help clients achieve productivity and leadership success.
- Stoyan Yankov – Stoyan Yankov, a Productivity & Performance Coach and Global Keynote Speaker, shares his journey from a small town in Bulgaria to coaching professionals worldwide.
- James Stuber – James Stuber focuses on building massive capacity for productivity through consistent, fundamental practices and effective systems.
- Morgan Crozier – Morgan Crozier, with a background in music and a quest for meaningful work, helps clients overcome challenges and achieve productivity in their professional lives.
Lindsay Davis
Internationally certified, award winning entrepreneur coach, speaker, master of Getting (The Right) Sh*t Done, founder of Gray Coaching and the Effortless Entrepreneur. With qualifications in Strategic Risk and Business Risk Management from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, Lindsay works with business leaders from around the globe to align priorities with the life they lead and scale their businesses to become highly profitable.
Having spent her career as an entrepreneur and leader in top organizations around the world, Lindsay has firsthand experience of the struggles that many people face trying to balance building and leading businesses with everyday life.
What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
My coaching training and certifications have given me many valuable tools and an arsenal of knowledge to bring into session. The most valuable part of my coaching success comes from lived experience. I have been the burned out, executive with too much going on. I’ve started a few of my own businesses and have succeeded and failed. I have found the balance between being a business owner, a coach, a mother and a whole human. I have successfully built my business around my life and not the other way around, working 9-2 Monday to Friday, earning profits and having fun doing it.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
Being an empathetic and supportive listener and a skill for asking just the right question at the right time to uncover what’s really going on at a deeper level, beyond the obvious symptoms.
Being able to help break things down into simple, achievable steps and build confidence along with skills.
Having a keen interest in continuous personal development and life-long learning both for myself and others, wherever you are in life. The joy of making a difference to the people I work with and their little ‘ah-ha’ moments.
Clare Evans
Clare Evans is a coach, speaker, trainer, writer and author of Time Management For Dummies and Working Through Cancer, and is regularly featured in business and national media. Following a background in IT and project management, Clare now shares her knowledge and skills with others needing to plan, organise and manage their business and personal lives, while finding time for her own interests in the outdoors.
What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
I offer a practical, solution-based approach to busy, time stressed businesses and professionals. How you use your time and energy affects all aspects of your life, it’s not just about ‘getting more done’. Everyone is different and I help find and adapt the methodologies, solutions and strategies that work best for the way you work. Using worksheets, checklists and simple tools to help the disorganised become organised. Helping them realise it’s easier than they thought to build good time habits, to achieve more of what they want, and that they’re not alone with their challenges.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
Being an empathetic and supportive listener and a skill for asking just the right question at the right time to uncover what’s really going on at a deeper level, beyond the obvious symptoms.
Being able to help break things down into simple, achievable steps and build confidence along with skills.
Having a keen interest in continuous personal development and life-long learning both for myself and others, wherever you are in life. The joy of making a difference to the people I work with and their little ‘ah-ha’ moments.
Patrick Farley
Patrick Farley has been a generalist his whole life and wants to help other generalists excel at everything they do. His education is in physics, his job is in big tech, his passions are writing and digital art, and he balances physical fitness, finance/trading, and travel on top of that, plus whatever else is catching his interest.
He’s the creator of True Generalist, a blog and collection of digital resources that help generalists be their best selves. In 2022, Patrick became a certified life coach (CLC) to help his fellow generalists more directly.
What do you do differently or how is your coaching different from others?
I coach generalists – people who take genuine interest in a wide variety of subjects, as opposed to specialists. Generalists are an invisible demographic that faces unique challenges, like being unsure which passions to follow, struggling to find time for everything, and needing a bit of extra organization and structure day-to-day. Often they think something’s wrong with them when they struggle to perform as specialists. My coaching draws on my personal experience as an ambitious generalist, combined with my accredited training, to give my clients exactly what they need to be the very best versions of themselves.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
I’m glad for all the time I’ve spent reading philosophy, psychology, and history. Most of it wasn’t for any particular purpose at the time, but now it’s helping me a lot. A good coach needs to be open-minded, capable of understanding and relating to people with different backgrounds, talents, obstacles, and goals. A good coach should also be familiar with popular ideas and how they shape a person’s life, because coaching often involves illuminating and even changing some of the client’s views of the world or of themselves.
Grace Marshall
I coach, train, write and speak on productivity. I help people adopt new ways of working and thinking about their work to replace stress, overwhelm and frustration with success, sanity and satisfaction. I’m naturally disorganised. My passion for productivity began when I got fed up of saying “I haven’t got enough time.” Impatience is what drove me to get good at getting things done.
I wasn’t willing to put life on hold so I juggle my business, family, community and social life on a daily basis – and not necessarily in that order. Now I absolutely love helping people live the life they want in the time that they have.
Ellen Faye
My high standards for excellence, ability to connect and inspire, an innate sense for business, productivity and leadership have been the constants of my career.
My first job out of college was with Stouffer Hotels. Within 6 months I was promoted from an entry level manager to a role where I led a department of 80 people.
Only now, looking back, do I understand that it was my ability to develop and implement systems, inspire and empower my team, and produce strong financial results that allowed this to happen. The secret . . . My teams could focus on delivering knock your-socks-off service, because effective systems were in place. They had everything they needed to do the routine parts of their jobs. Their energy was focused on serving the guest.
Stoyan Yankov
If I were to meet my 16-year-old self today, he probably wouldn’t believe the course my life has taken. He might not even know what being a Productivity & Performance Coach and a Global Keynote Speaker is! (Some of you might not know even now). I grew up in a small town in Bulgaria (Sliven), studying in a high school of math, driven to become a professional in the financial industry.
I moved to another city (Varna) to do my bachelor’s degree in finance. Never would I have imagined the journey that was ahead of me.
James Stuber
I want to build a massive capacity for making things happen. And I want to help you do the same. I am obsessed with boring fundamentals
Sleeping 8 hours a night. Putting in the reps. Laying the bricks. I love the boring, unsexy work because the most useful skills are gained only through consistency and practice. I am obsessed with building systems Workflows and rituals run my life.
Getting Things Done handles my task management. Building A Second Brain handles my information processing. Systems let us extend the number of operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
Morgan Crozier
As a young lad, I was (and still am) a die-hard musician. I even skipped along, bright eyed and bushy tailed, off to college to study trumpet performance. It didn’t take long to realize I was down the path towards being a professional starving musician, so I tried to get a ‘real job’ – but there were no opportunities in SmallTown, Texas.
I applied everywhere: Wal-Mart, Olive Garden, factories, and other chains. But everyone was full up and nobody was hiring.
Conclusion
These coaches aren’t just about getting more done—they’re about transforming how we approach our work and lives.
Whether you’re looking to streamline your workflow, balance multiple interests, or simply find more satisfaction in what you do, their wisdom offers invaluable insights for everyone striving to be their best selves.
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