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Tony Schwartz is the president, founder and CEO of The Energy Project, a company that helps individuals and organizations build and sustain great performance by more efficiently managing energy rather than time. Tony is also a bestselling author and professional speaker with more than 30 years of experience writing about and working with leaders and organizations to effect change.

Biography
Schwartz began his career as writer in 1975 and spent 25 years as journalist. He was a columnist for The New York Post, an Associate Editor at Newsweek, a reporter for The New York Times, and a staff writer at New York Magazine and at Esquire. In 1988, he coauthored the #1 worldwide bestseller The Art of the Deal with Donald Trump.

In 1995, Schwartz wrote What Really Matters Searching for Wisdom in America and in 1998 he coauthored 'Risking Failure, Surviving Success, with Michael Eisner, then CEO of The Walt Disney Company.

In 1999, Schwartz joined LGE Performance Systems, a training company, where he served as president until 2003. That same year, Tony coauthored The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy Not Time, with LGE chairman Jim Loehr. The book became a #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller, spent eight weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into 28 languages.

Schwartz founded The Energy Project in 2003, and launched The Energy Project Europe in 2005, with headquarters outside London. The company’s clients have included Ernst & Young, Google, Nokia, Sony, Toyota, Gap, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Barclays Capital, Procter & Gamble, Ford, the National Security Agency, the FBI, the Los Angeles Police Department, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Kaiser Permanente, the Cleveland Clinic and Save the Children. Tony has delivered dozens of keynotes to audiences around the world and has done leadership work and coaching with more than two dozen CEOS.

In October, 2007, Schwartz’s article “Manage Energy Not Time: The Science of Stamina” co-authored with The Energy Project COO, Catherine McCarthy, was published in the Harvard Business Review. The article describes the impact of The Energy Project curriculum on engagement and performance at three Fortune 500 companies.

Schwartz’s newest book, Pulse: Fueling the Four Needs that Drive Great Performance, coauthored with Jean Gomes, chairman of The Energy Project Europe, will be published in January 2010 by the Free Press.

The Energy Project
The work of The Energy Project is grounded in the multdisciplinary science of sustainable high performance. It is based on the core premise that time is a finite resource, but energy can be systematically expanded and regularly renewed. Energy is defined simply as the capacity to do work. “Firing on All Cylinders” is The Energy Project’s flagship curriculum and it is comprised of four modules that focus on four key dimensions of energy: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. At the individual level, the curriculum is designed to help people build deeply embedded energy rituals – highly specific behaviors performed at precise times until they eventually become automatic. At the organizational level, the work focuses on helping leaders to build support systems that meet the key needs of employees in each of the four energy dimensions. The Energy Project work is also available to individuals through programs delivered at Miraval, a spa and resort based in Tucson, Arizona.

Books
The Art of the Deal with Donald Trump (Random House 1987) What Really Matters: Searching for Wisdom in America (Bantam, 1995) Work in Progress with Michael Eisner (Random House, 1998) The Power of Full Engagement with Jim Loehr (Free Press, 2003) Pulse: Fueling the Four Needs That Drive Great Performance (Free Press, 2010)