Randy Dean

Time Management Keynote Speaker on Peak Performance, Technology, AI, Productivity & Organizational Skills

Expert on

  • Time Management
  • Peak Performance
  • Technology
  • Organizational Skills
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
 

Fee Range

$7,500–$10,000

Travels from

MI, US

Biography

Randy Dean, MBA, known as “The E-mail Sanity Expert®,” helps busy professionals take control of their time, technology, and information overload. For more than 25 years, he has delivered engaging, practical training and speaking programs for corporate, university, association, and government audiences, helping thousands of professionals become more organized, focused, and productive.

The author of the Amazon bestseller Taming the E-mail Beast, Randy specializes in turning everyday productivity challenges into manageable systems. His programs address e-mail overload, competing priorities, workplace distractions, project management, and the constant demands of staying connected. He shows audiences how to get more from familiar tools like Microsoft Outlook, Gmail, calendars, and mobile devices to streamline work and keep important responsibilities moving forward.

Randy also helps professionals understand how artificial intelligence can support their daily work. Through practical demonstrations of tools such as Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and Claude, he explores ways to draft e-mails and documents, summarize information, strengthen project planning, and improve team coordination. His approach connects AI to the tasks professionals already perform, giving audiences useful ways to incorporate these tools into their existing routines.

Before becoming a speaker and trainer, Randy built a career in graduate program admissions, marketing, and management. That experience informs his understanding of the pressures busy professionals face and his emphasis on solutions that work in real workplace settings.

With an entertaining, approachable teaching style, Randy makes technology and time management accessible. Audiences leave with immediately usable strategies to reduce stress, reclaim valuable time, and approach their work with greater clarity and control.

Speaker Videos

EVERYDAY AI: ENHANCING PRODUCTIVITY IN YOUR “EVERY DAY” PROJECTS, TASKS, AND ACTIVITIES

Learn immediately-usable tips for integrating popular AI tools into your suite of productivity tools, with a strong focus on Microsoft’s Copilot AI, Google Gemini, and Claude (many of these tips also work in other popular AI tools). Learn how to quickly draft e-mails and documents; summarize incoming messages, files, and even complete books in seconds; enhance and greatly speed up your project/task planning, improve staff management/coordination, build new marketing communications, campaigns, and videos (including for social media and search engine optimization), conduct topic-based research, generate images — even have AI do your work for you and your business (automations!)

Key Learning Points:

  • Understand how AI works, and how to effectively communicate with it so that it can quickly help with your active projects, activities, tasks, and research.
  • Learn about multiple ways to integrate the general AI assistants (Copilot, Gemini, Claude, Chat GPT, etc.) as well as possibly some more specific “niche” AI tools into your daily workflow for enhanced productivity and saved time
  • See how powerful AI can be for your client/customer communications, project planning and execution, marketing and PR efforts, social media and video creation and coordination, and search engine optimization

QUICK BASICS ON WORKPLACE AI PRODUCTIVITY

Learn immediately-usable tips for integrating popular AI tools into your suite of productivity tools, with a strong focus on Microsoft’s Copilot AI (although many of these tips also work with Gemini, ChatGPT, and other popular AI tools). Learn how to quickly draft e-mails and documents; summarize incoming messages, files, and even full books in seconds; enhance your project/task planning, improve staff management/coordination, conduct topic-based research, generate images — even make your messages more polite and professional!  You will also see how Copilot integrates with popular 365 tools like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to enhance productivity directly inside these programs. 

Key Learning Points:

  • Understand how to use prompts and re-prompts to quickly refine your effort and get the output you desire from these tools
  • Generate first drafts of e-mails and documents and also summarize received messages, documents, files, presentations, and even full-length books in mere seconds
  • Enhance your planning on personal and professional projects through the use of AI to improve/supplement existing or planned projects and activities

TAMING THE E-MAIL BEAST: KEY STRATEGIES FOR MANAGING E-MAIL OVERLOAD

Every day, busy professionals are getting buried under a continuing stream of both useful and useless e-mail. Without a system for getting “control of the beast”, professionals spend much of their work (and personal) time spinning wheels and feeling highly unsatisfied. If you would like to get control of your e-mail “beast”, you should attend this program led by Randy Dean, MBA, author of the Amazon bestseller, Taming the E-mail Beast. Randy shares strategies for effective e-mail management, organization, and prioritization (featuring live and newly updated demos in popular programs like MS Outlook and Gmail) that have helped thousands of business professionals regain control and sanity with their e-mail activities (one university client even found that the average attendee saved more than 2 hours per week by taking this program!) Enhance your productivity and efficiency with e-mail today, and walk away with immediately usable tips and techniques!

Key Learning Points:

  • Build a practical system for managing e-mail overload and keeping your inbox organized.
  • Prioritize incoming messages so important tasks and follow-ups receive timely attention.
  • Reduce distractions and unnecessary inbox checking to protect time for focused work.
  • Use tools and features in Microsoft Outlook and Gmail to streamline e-mail management.

OPTIMIZING YOUR OUTLOOK: TIME, E-MAIL, PROJECT, PEOPLE, AND IDEA MANAGEMENT USING MS OUTLOOK

In this popular program on “getting the most from your Outlook” for MS Outlook Users, Randy goes deeper into many of the most common areas of productivity loss (and possible gain!) afflicting many busy professionals today: managing multiple projects, maintaining “traction” when dealing with tasks and interruptions, getting more from time spent in meetings, clearing the clutter in your mind for better focus, keeping staff on task, tracking “who owes you what” and getting that information on time, and better managing your calendar and contacts for better time and relationship management. His goal is to help stressed out performers learn several new and immediately useful Outlook strategies for finding a few minutes on tasks, activities, and actions you are already doing, leading to at least an extra hour of productivity every day. Get more from all five of the key Outlook functions for greater productivity.

Key Learning Points:

  • Organize e-mail, tasks, projects, and ideas using Outlook.
  • Manage calendars and meetings to maximize productivity.
  • Track delegated tasks, requests, and follow-ups.
  • Manage contacts to strengthen relationships and communication.