About WorkWise
What Is WorkWise?
WorkWise is a time-management program that presents you with lessons, videos, articles, webinars, and community, centered around increasing your productivity, performance, and effectiveness. It helps you focus on what's important to you and get on top of all the things you have to do, even the ones you don’t like doing. This means you’re left with greater fulfillment and satisfaction around everything you have to deal with in life.
How Does It Work?
We’ve taken over twenty years of transformational work with individuals, teams, and organizations of all sizes and combined it with recent developments in neuroscience. Our approach is based on neuroscience and helps people deal with the overwhelming demand, so they can live the life we want.
You know those moments where you are fully enjoying what you are doing? It may be something at work, playing with your children, gardening, exercise, or some other pursuit. Well, it turns out there are specific ways the brain operates when in that state of “flow”. At WorkWise we have developed perspectives, practices and tools that help us reliably access that state.
With WorkWise, The way our program works is that you will discover the self-imposed limitations that leave you with issues such as stress, anxiety , and overwhelm. Armed with this new awareness, you learn how to bring a new approach that leaves you with greater focus, better work/life balance, organized, and masterful with time management.
Why WorkWise?
We live in an era with so much coming at us that it can be hard to find a moment of peace amidst the maelstrom of everything we have to deal with. Every once in a while, we have moments of fulfillment, when we are satisfied we are getting to what’s most important to us. In these moments, we experience peace, freedom, a deep sense of purpose, and joy.
WorkWise is all about having many, many more of those moments.
At WorkWise That’s why we’ve created an approach that is really effective at helping you along this pathway. Rather than telling you what to do, you will discover the pathway for yourself and try it out.
The WorkWise Team
Alex Straus
Alex loves to bring people together.
Alex has a deep affinity and connection to the world of WorkWise – so much so that he has been the main driving force into making WorkWise a reality for so many people. Behind all of our emails, videos, apps, and website – Alex is the backbone of WorkWise.
Prior to WorkWise, he created a non-profit organization called ‘The Listening Project’ which allowed people from all ends of the political spectrum to have meaningful conversations and be heard by each other. Alex also worked as a management consultant, developing leaders in some of the worlds largest organizations.
He also loves to hike with his family, live a healthy life, and is currently undergoing aggressive treatment for chronic lyme disease.
Doug Fisher
Doug brings out the best in people.
In some of the world’s largest organizations, such as Microsoft, Boeing, ExxonMobil, P&G, he has consulted and developed leaders in over 20 countries. He brings a keen listening that evokes what’s most important and leaves people across cultures connected, inspired, and naturally in action.
Doug also has an expertise in having individuals fulfill their purpose with power, freedom and peace of mind in the face of the ever-increasing mountain of things we have to deal with in our day-to-day lives.
In addition, Doug is a student of ancient wisdom traditions, bringing the power of esoteric teachings to modern day performance challenges.
Hana Klokner
Hana is the WorkWise social media director and executive. She wrote this post and pretty much all other posts you've read so far. Besides dedicating her time as a social media specialist, she's a mum of twins – think busy, but thanks to WorkWise not insane yet.
Andrej Klokner
Andrej is the Project Manager at WorkWise, making sure that everyone else does what they promised, and on time. Naturally, he uses all the WorkWise methods to keep everyone productive and effective, all while having fun.