Keynote SpeakersZena Everett is a globally recognised leadership coach, keynote speaker and author of three acclaimed books, including the award-winning Crazy Busy Cure and Badly Behaved People, a W H Smith Business Book of the Month.
Her work focuses on helping professionals and organisations overcome overwhelm, increase productivity, and lead with impact in today’s fast-paced, distraction-heavy workplace.
As a keynote speaker, Zena Everett is known for her high-energy, interactive sessions packed with practical strategies that can be implemented immediately.
Her signature Crazy Busy keynote speech resonates across industries and seniority levels – because we’re all drowning in too much work, too many meetings, and not enough time.
One standout event with Ireland’s Executive Institute scored an impressive 98.5% satisfaction rate, and she’s a regular at the prestigious London Business Forum.
Zena’s career began as a successful recruitment entrepreneur before she pivoted to executive coaching.
She sold her business and earned an MSc in Career Management and Coaching. This was followed by postgraduate qualifications in psychological coaching and leadership from MIT.
She has coached executives on the MBA programme at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School and is part of the Associate Faculty at Henley Business School.
Zena Everett works internationally and splits her time between London and West Cork.
Zena Everett – Crazy Busy Keynote Speech
The Crazy Busy Cure: You Have More Time Than You Think or Managing Time, Focus and Energy (Leadership presentation)
We all have crazy busy days, trying to stay on top of emails (more than 375 billion are sent EVERY SINGLE DAY), manage curveballs and juggle constant interruptions. It feels like everyone needs a bit of our 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, and we don’t switch off either. Work also eats into our personal time, and sometimes we feel overwhelmed.
Productivity isn’t a personal problem; it’s not you! It’s the system we all work in, the 24/7 attention economy.
Research says that 68% of employees struggle to keep up with the pace of work. It can be hard to distinguish between priorities and distractions. We are all bogged down with what researchers call ‘productivity drag’. This is the chronic friction that compounds to suck up our time, such as long meetings, competing projects, excessive collaboration, endless messaging, and slow decision-making. Do any of these sound familiar? Can we fix them?
After Zena Everett’s highly interactive and practical masterclass, you will be able to:
- Push back professionally, ask for deadline extensions and say ‘no’ correctly.
- Address the bottlenecks respectfully.
- Stop procrastinating.
- Work like a lion and only chase antelopes.
- Focus on what’s important.
- Get your priorities done.
- Find time for deep, flow work and thinking.
- Take control of your time, energy and focus and stop feeling overwhelmed.
