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Peggy Sullivan

Reclaim time and boost performance with Peggy Sullivan, productivity strategist and workplace wellbeing speaker. Peggy works with executives and teams to reduce burnout, improve focus, and drive high performance, delivering keynotes for Google, Bank of America, and Harvard.

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Peggy Sullivan, Speaker | Productivity & Wellbeing Expert
Peggy Sullivan

Peggy Sullivan

Miami, United States

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$11k–25k

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Peggy Sullivan's biography

At a glance

  • Author of Beyond Busyness, an Amazon bestseller
  • 25+ years leading Fortune 100 and 500 teams
  • Creator of the Busy Busting Framework

Peggy Sullivan is a keynote speaker, productivity strategist, and workplace wellbeing expert who helps high-performing professionals and organizations break free from the busy trap and reclaim time, clarity, and focus.


With more than 25 years of executive leadership experience at Fortune 100 and 500 companies, including BlueCross BlueShield and Materion Advanced Materials, Peggy has led teams across marketing, sales, operations, and customer experience. A self-described former busyness addict, she created the Busy Busting Framework after surveying more than 12,000 professionals for her proprietary Workplace Busy Report. She is also the author of the Amazon bestseller Beyond Busyness: How to Achieve More by Doing Less, and has brought her insights to organizations including Google, Bank of America, Johnson & Johnson, and Harvard.


Peggy delivers keynotes, retreats, and workshops built around her three-step Performance by Design framework, guiding leaders and teams to eliminate low-value activity, rebuild focus through small daily rituals, and reconnect with the values that drive meaningful work. Her engagements combine research, data, and personal storytelling with a high-energy, humor-led delivery style.


Audiences leave with a repeatable process for reducing decision fatigue and urgency culture, replacing it with sustainable performance, purpose, and engagement across their organizations.


Book Peggy to help your leaders and teams trade busyness for intentional, high-impact performance.

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Topics, sessions and talks

Purpose Driven Leadership: Meaning Over Mayhem

Peggy Sullivan draws on her research showing that 79 percent of employees have lost their sense of purpose to help leaders trade reactive, tactical work for intentional strategy. Through stories and case studies from her career leading Fortune 500 teams, she guides audiences through her Meaning Over Mayhem framework to eliminate bottlenecks, prioritize what matters, and rebuild trust and clarity across cross-functional teams. Leaders leave this session equipped to lead with confidence, resilience, and renewed direction.

Peak Performance: Achieve More By Doing Less

Using her three-step Performance by Design framework, Peggy Sullivan helps individuals and teams reduce decision fatigue, eliminate low-value tasks, and reclaim up to seven hours a week for what matters most. Drawing on her own recovery from burnout and research from her State of the Workplace report, she blends humor, heart, and data to challenge the belief that busyness equals worth. This session leaves audiences with a repeatable process for boosting focus, wellness, and engagement without burning out.

Workplace Wellbeing: Mojo-Making

Peggy Sullivan positions employee wellbeing as the foundation of performance, culture, customer satisfaction, and profitability. Drawing on her own recovery from burnout and insights from a global corporate career, she combines humor and vulnerability to help audiences diagnose energy-draining habits and replace them with science-backed rituals that restore focus and engagement. Challenging outdated definitions of success, this high-energy session leaves attendees re-engaged, recharged, and equipped with practical strategies for sustainable performance at work and in life.

Why we recommend booking Peggy

Peggy brings boardroom-tested credibility from BlueCross BlueShield and 25 years of Fortune 500 leadership to conversations about burnout, focus, and performance, exactly what stretched teams need right now.

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Testimonials

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

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

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

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Beyond Busyness: How To Achieve More By Doing Less

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How do I book Peggy Sullivan for my next event?

Email peggy.sullivan@getapeptalk.com or call PepTalk on +44 20 3835 2929 (UK) or +1 737 888 5112 (US), and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm Peggy's availability and fees. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and a bit about your audience.

Peggy Sullivan structures her sessions around named proprietary frameworks, primarily the three-step Performance by Design framework and the Meaning Over Mayhem framework, which she delivers through a combination of data drawn from her State of the Workplace report (based on surveys of more than 12,000 professionals) and personal storytelling from her own recovery from burnout and her executive career at Fortune 100 and 500 companies.

What is Peggy Sullivan's speaking style like?

Peggy Sullivan structures her sessions around named proprietary frameworks, primarily the three-step Performance by Design framework and the Meaning Over Mayhem framework, which she delivers through a combination of data drawn from her State of the Workplace report (based on surveys of more than 12,000 professionals) and personal storytelling from her own recovery from burnout and her executive career at Fortune 100 and 500 companies.

Peggy Sullivan structures her sessions around named proprietary frameworks, primarily the three-step Performance by Design framework and the Meaning Over Mayhem framework, which she delivers through a combination of data drawn from her State of the Workplace report (based on surveys of more than 12,000 professionals) and personal storytelling from her own recovery from burnout and her executive career at Fortune 100 and 500 companies.

What topics does Peggy Sullivan specialise in?

Peggy Sullivan speaks on purpose-driven leadership, peak performance and productivity, and workplace wellbeing. She is the author of Beyond Busyness: How to Achieve More by Doing Less, an Amazon bestseller, and draws on more than 25 years of executive leadership at Fortune 100 and 500 companies, including BlueCross BlueShield, Materion Advanced Materials, Google, Bank of America, Johnson & Johnson, and Harvard.

Peggy Sullivan speaks on purpose-driven leadership, peak performance and productivity, and workplace wellbeing. She is the author of Beyond Busyness: How to Achieve More by Doing Less, an Amazon bestseller, and draws on more than 25 years of executive leadership at Fortune 100 and 500 companies, including BlueCross BlueShield, Materion Advanced Materials, Google, Bank of America, Johnson & Johnson, and Harvard.

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