Todd Brown

When did you first discover GTD, and what inspired you to become a trainer?

I first came across GTD in 2005, while working as a director in HR for a global bank.  I found a series of podcasts on GTD very much by accident, during a web search for something unrelated.  As I dived into the podcasts, the more I heard the more intrigued I was.  GTD seemed to offer an apparently impossible vision: getting more of the right things done, in less time and with less stress.  As I implemented the ideas in my own life I saw very quickly the transformative impact they had on me.  Not only was I being more effective at the office, which led to promotions and other career growth, but I was also getting  feedback from my family that I was more available to them in my non-working hours.  I brought the methodology into my teams and saw them begin the reap the benefits straight away.

When Ed Lamont and I co-founded the business in 2009, we had both seen the power of GTD in our own lives and in the lives of others.  We knew the world would be a better place with the healthy high-performance benefits of GTD, and over the years we have gathered a superb team that makes the promise of GTD a reality for our clients.

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What goals do you have for the work that you do with clients?  What do you want them to achieve and experience?

We’ve all had the experience of being “in the zone” at work.  The right things are moving forward efficiently.  Balls are not being dropped.  We’re operating with a sense of relaxed, focused control.  So while this experience is common, the problem is that for most of us it’s not easily replicable - we just “bump into it” from time to time.  I want to enable my clients to realise that positive experience on cue, using the best practices and tools of GTD.

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What’s a fun or unexpected fact about you?

Outside of my roles at NAA I’m a very keen bass player, mostly focused on jazz.  That interest has led me to co-found a business that runs residential jazz courses in the UK.  I’m also a runner and a sailor.  

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