About
Host of the Get-It-Done-Guy podcast, which has received more than 7 million downloads on iTunes, Stever Robbins is uniquely positioned to talk about how to turn productivity into a better life. His new book, “Get-It-Done-Guy’s 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More” combines on the productivity tips of the likes of David Allen with the deep understanding of relationships from gurus like Katie Byron.
Stever is currently producing, co-writing, and performing a one-man musical based on the book, his way of Living On Purpose (for more about this core principle of Working Less and Doing More, download the book’s first chapter on the main page of this site)
Stever co-founded the early internet success story FTP Software, and has been a part of nine high-tech start-ups, four IPOs, and three acquisitions. He was COO for Building Blocks Interactive, and project manager at Intuit, where he co-led the development of the award-winning Quicken VISA Card.
Stever began developing business leaders as part of Harvard Business School’s “Leadership and Learning” curriculum redesign project and has been an advisor and mentor to senior managers in several high-growth companies. He currently serves as CEO of Stever Robbins, Inc., where he coaches executives and high-potential leaders. Stever is also a former member of the career coaching staff at Harvard Business School.
The creator of the Pull Leadership concept, Stever has written extensively about leadership in his book It Takes a Lot More than Attitude…to Lead a Stellar Organization and in his monthly Harvard Business School Working Knowledge column.
An angel investor or advisor to several young companies, Stever is also a judge for the Harvard Business School Business Plan competition and former judge for the Brown University Business Plan competition. He has also served as a mentor for the MIT $50K Competition. And a judge for the Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Awards.
His work with younger and emerging business leaders includes serving on the board of Babson College’s “E-Tower” (an entrepreneurship living group), mentoring high-school students through Junior Achievement, and participating in Boston’s “Principal for a Day” program. He is a former Big Brother of America.
Stever holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BS in Computer Sciences from MIT. He is a graduate of W. Edward Deming’s Total Quality Management training program, a Certified Master Trainer Elite of NLP, and a Certified Executive Coach.
Stever was a repeat commentator on CNN-fn’s Entrepreneurs Only and hosted a regular segment on the nationally syndicated radio show Entrepreneurs, Living the American Dream. He is a featured expert in Harvard Business School Publishing’s Harvard Manage Mentor, as well as appearing as an expert in critical thinking and memory in Houghton-Mifflin’s forthcoming Skillbuilders series.
He has been quoted in numerous publications including The Wall Street Journal, NBC Nightly News, The New York Times, ABC News Now, MSNBC, BusinessWeek Online, and Investor’s Business Daily. He has written for Harvard Business Review, The Boston Business Journal and has had columns on Entrepreneur.com and Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge.
In his spare time, Stever’s hobbies include comedy improv, swing dancing, singing, interactive theater, Ericksonian hypnosis, and strategy board games. He’s learning guitar and is very happy to announce he can play “E.” The note, not the chord.
(*) 11/07, 12/07 respectively.
