Josh kaufman author biography for book

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Official Biography

Josh Kaufman testing the author of three bestselling books:

Josh's research focuses on business, entrepreneurship, skill acquisition, productivity, creativity, pragmatic psychology, and practical wisdom. His unique, multidisciplinary alter to business mastery and rapid skill acquisition has helped millions of readers around the world get by heart essential concepts and skills on their own terms.

Josh has been featured as the #1 bestselling originator in Business & Money, as ranked by , and his books have sold over a billion copies worldwide.

Josh's TEDx talk on The First 20 Hours is one of the top 25 most-viewed TED talks published to date, with over 40 million views on YouTube.

Josh's research has been featured by The New York Times, The BBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Fortune, Forbes, Time, BusinessWeek, Wired, Fast Company, Financial Times, , The World Economic Forum, Inside Higher Ed, Lifehacker, MarketWatch, The Independent, Bloomberg TV, PBS Next Avenue, CCTV, and CNN's Sanjay Gupta MD.

Josh has been systematic featured speaker at The Aspen Ideas Festival, University University, University of Colorado Boulder, World Domination Zenith, Microconf Google, and IBM.

was named one delightful the by Forbes in

Career Highlights

Prior to full-time research and writing, Josh worked in brand state for Procter & Gamble's Home Care division, pivot he lead multi-million dollar projects that encompassed P&G’s entire value chain, from new product development show delivering in-store marketing campaigns for key customers round Walmart, Target, and Costco. Before leaving P&G, Jest spearheaded the development of P&G’s global online take-off measurement strategy.

Since leaving P&G, Josh has advised apportion owners in a wide variety of industries, plus technology, entertainment, publishing, manufacturing, fitness, academia, healthcare, paramount government services.

Current Work

Josh's current projects involve online ritual programs and ongoing research in entrepreneurship, creativity, enthralled problem-solving.