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Keynote SpeakerVikki Yaffe

Thought leader in the Time & Productivity space, top 1% podcast host and public speaker

Vikki is a thought leader in the Time & Productivity space, top 1% podcast host and public speaker that is dismantling outdated time management practices and offering tools with a fast and high ROI on time invested. Her podcast “Hack Your Time” gained over 700,000 downloads, organically, as people are... Read more

Biography

Vikki is a thought leader in the Time & Productivity space, top 1% podcast host and public speaker that is dismantling outdated time management practices and offering tools with a fast and high ROI on time invested. Her podcast “Hack Your Time” gained over 700,000 downloads, organically, as people are hungry for practical tools that actually work.

Her work goes deeper than time management tactics and solves for why we don’t just follow a calendar, why we keep putting off certain tasks and why we get stuck and things take much longer than they need to.

The difference between our most and least productive days is us. More specifically, our brains. And nobody has taught us how to optimize our brains to maximize our productivity. Until now. Vikki is the founder and CEO of Time Hackers, Ltd, working with individuals and teams globally to improve effectiveness and efficiency while eliminating time wasted. She and her global team have supported hundreds of clients to achieve faster success.

After graduating from LSE, she worked in finance and tech across multiple continents, developing a deep understanding of culture and the role it plays with our time and effectiveness. After spending years climbing the corporate ladder, working 80+ hour weeks, and experiencing multiple burnouts, Vikki specializes in helping ambitious do-it-all-ers unlearn time rules and hustle culture so they can achieve more, faster, without compromising their success or vision.

Vikki has lived and worked on four continents, is a mum, and spent most of her life thinking “being disorganized” and “bad with her time” was a personality trait… Until she changed it. She hosts the top 1% “Hack Your Time” podcast, downloaded over 700,000 times and has been a guest speaker on over 150 podcasts, featured in 50+ articles, and has spoken on stages across Europe, the USA and the Middle East.

If you’re looking for an engaging, thought-provoking speaker with the skill of capturing attention and leaving attendees with an immediate ROI, then you have found it.

"I hired Vikki to speak to my Women's Leadership Group. From all over the US, these women hold positions in various industries and different levels of responsibility. The one thing they all hold in common – is their stress over time scarcity, their desire to over-manage their time, and their addiction to ‘to-do’ lists. Vikki brought a mind-blowing perspective to their assumptions about what has to be done, and by when. Her teaching challenges the status quo in the best of ways: to creatively be more effective, and not just continue with outdated models of productivity. Her lessons will stay with us for a long time to come! I highly recommend Vikki - she's a great presenter, coach, facilitator, and thought leader!" Founder Brave Women Leadership
"Vikki spoke at Canvas8's International Women's Day event and I would highly recommend her to other brands and agencies. She presented in a very relaxed and approachable manner, providing insights and presented research to back up her findings. I'd recommend Vikki as a speaker on the issue of the gender gap, women empowerment and the topic of time-hacking. Thanks again for a great presentation!" Senior Network Manager, Canvas8
"The Time Hacker workshop and training was insightful, refreshing and productive. We don't need to be perfect planners to get organized and it is possible to create space for ourselves... today! The interactive style of learning was engaging and powerful and I highly recommend Time Hacking to any forward-thinking leaders and teams that want to create successful weeks without working out of hours, or feeling guilty for letting certain things go." President, Willis Towers Watson
"At Prowess Project, we LOVED Vikki's session on Time Hacking. There were so many great reminders and different perspectives packed into a short time. It instantly calmed me down. After the event we all agreed that you are the 4-hour work week but written specifically for women. I highly recommend this workshop, thank you again." CEO and Founder Prowess Project
"Work that used to take days now takes me hours to finish. Using the Time Hackers method, I restructured my workdays to focus on creating value and increasing productivity. Despite managing a growing team and a $120M portfolio with multiple projects and clients, I don’t feel controlled by my calendar or exhausted." Senior Manager, Ignite Digital

Popular Talks by Vikki Yaffe

  • Creating Flow

    An understanding of how the Flow State is created in our brain and a framework to create it on demand. This also covers the benefit of flow and a side by side comparison of the impact of flow vs hustle.

  • How to Create Successful Weeks without Time Blocking

    A framework for creating successful weeks that doesn’t involve waking up at 5am, planning on a Sunday, or following a strict calendar. Includes a breakdown of Time Blocking by comparison, its limitations, and why Elon Musk may not be right here.

  • Becoming Decisive

    Decision Making is a learnable skill, just like a language. Providing a framework for how to become a decisive person (even if you genuinely see yourself as indecisive right now).

  • Time-Brain Model

    How to achieve more in less time leveraging your number one time tool – your brain. Understanding why we keep putting certain things off, and spend too much time on others, and how to change this.

  • Hosting Effective Meetings

    How to get the most out of meetings.

  • How to Successfully Fail

    A step by step process for turning failure into success (including discussion around resilience, why we evolved to avoid failure, and how to celebrate failure).

  • Why Time Management Doesn't Work & What to Do Instead

    A breakdown of the history and impact of Time Management and its’ limitations. Followed on by an introduction of the Time-Brain Model, why it works, how it works, the impact and how to implement it successfully.

  • The Value of Failure, turning Failure into Success

    Defining failure, understanding the root cause of our resistance to failure, and providing tools and resources to change our narrative of failure so we can fail more, fail faster, and succeed faster.

  • How to Make Effective Decisions

    A framework for making effective decisions, fast, the value of it, why the idea of “thinking about things” is outdated and what it costs us to not make decisions. Why “indecision” doesn’t exist and strategies for best-in-class decision making.