About Josh Kaufman
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Official Biography
Josh Kaufman is the author of three bestselling books:
Josh's research focuses on business, entrepreneurship, skill acquisition, productivity, creativity, applied psychology, and practical wisdom. His unique, multidisciplinary approach to business mastery and rapid skill acquisition has helped millions of readers around the world learn essential concepts and skills on their own terms.
Josh has been featured as the #1 bestselling author in Business & Money, as ranked by Amazon.com, and his books have sold over a million 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, HarvardBusiness.org, 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 a featured speaker at The Aspen Ideas Festival, Stanford University, University of Colorado Boulder, World Domination Summit, Microconf Google, and IBM.
JoshKaufman.net was named one of the Top 100 Websites for Entrepreneurs
by Forbes in 2013.
Career Highlights
Prior to full-time research and writing, Josh worked in brand management for Procter & Gamble's Home Care division, where he lead multi-million dollar projects that encompassed P&G’s entire value chain, from new product development to delivering in-store marketing campaigns for key customers like Walmart, Target, and Costco. Before leaving P&G, Josh spearheaded the development of P&G’s global online marketing measurement strategy.
Since leaving P&G, Josh has advised business owners in a wide variety of industries, including technology, entertainment, publishing, manufacturing, fitness, academia, healthcare, and government services.
Current Work
Josh's current projects involve online training programs and ongoing research in entrepreneurship, creativity, and problem-solving.