Bob Pozen

Bob Pozen

MA, US
Make productivity real in your organization with the former CEO, board member, and now best-selling author of Extrememe Productivity.

Bob Pozen is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is a former president of Fidelity Investments and executive chairman of MFS Investment Management. He has extensive experience in business, government and journalism.

Bob was executive chairman of MFS Investment Management from 2004 to 2011; during this period, the assets of MFS more than doubled from a starting point of $130 billion.

From 1987 through 2001, he served in various positions at Fidelity Investments. During his tenure as President of Fidelity Management and Research, from 1997 thru 2001, the assets of the Fidelity Funds rose from $500 billion to $900 billion.

Bob served as Associate General Counsel of the SEC in the late 1970s, and Chairman of the SEC's Advisory Committee on Financial Reporting in 2007-2008. He was a member of the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security, and served as Secretary of Economic Affairs under Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.

Bob has taught at Georgetown and NYU as well as Harvard Business School and MIT. He has published seven books.  His latest book, Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours, was #3 on Fast Company's list of best business books for 2012. In addition, he often writes editorials for the Financial Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.

Bob is an outside director of Nielsen, and AMC (a second-tier subsidiary of the World Bank) and formerly Medtronic. He also serves on the governing board of several non-profit organizations. He received the 2011 Fund Action Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in the mutual fund industry.

Bob graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College, and obtained a law degree from Yale Law School where he was a member of the editorial board of the Yale Law Journal. He also received a doctorate from Yale Law School for a book he wrote on state enterprises in Africa.

Bob Pozen is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is a former president of Fidelity Investments and executive chairman of MFS Investment Management. He has extensive experience in business, government and journalism.

Bob was executive chairman of MFS Investment Management from 2004 to 2011; during this period, the assets of MFS more than doubled from a starting point of $130 billion.

From 1987 through 2001, he served in various positions at Fidelity Investments. During his tenure as President of Fidelity Management and Research, from 1997 thru 2001, the assets of the Fidelity Funds rose from $500 billion to $900 billion.

Bob served as Associate General Counsel of the SEC in the late 1970s, and Chairman of the SEC's Advisory Committee on Financial Reporting in 2007-2008. He was a member of the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security, and served as Secretary of Economic Affairs under Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.

Bob has taught at Georgetown and NYU as well as Harvard Business School and MIT. He has published seven books.  His latest book, Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours, was #3 on Fast Company's list of best business books for 2012. In addition, he often writes editorials for the Financial Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.

Bob is an outside director of Nielsen, and AMC (a second-tier subsidiary of the World Bank) and formerly Medtronic. He also serves on the governing board of several non-profit organizations. He received the 2011 Fund Action Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in the mutual fund industry.

Bob graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College, and obtained a law degree from Yale Law School where he was a member of the editorial board of the Yale Law Journal. He also received a doctorate from Yale Law School for a book he wrote on state enterprises in Africa.

Productivity: Creating Highly Successful People

Since the Great Recession, many professionals have been facing more challenging schedules and more daunting to-do lists. This makes it all the more important for professionals to be able to get their work done quickly and effectively.  This is why Bob created and teaches about how all of us can employ his proven methods to be more productive and successful.
ProductivityAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

Maximizing Team Productivity

Bob leads this workshop to help teams find ways to be their best and maximize their productivity to see better results, faster.  Using his proven methodology discussed in Bob's book Extreme Productivity, bring his exercises to life with your organization.
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Hands-on Productivity Training for Executives

We live in a very busy and crowded world.  Spend the day with Bob learning the techniques that help create the most productive and effective leaders.  Bob's hands-on approach creates immediate positive effects.  He and his team can create a program that best helps your organization be successful.
ProductivityAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing