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Peggy Sullivan
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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 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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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.
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.
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.
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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 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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