Josh Kaufman
Josh Kaufman is a business advisor, entrepreneur, and author of three bestselling books: The Personal MBA, The First 20 Hours, and How to Fight a Hydra. Josh specializes in teaching professionals in all industries and disciplines how to master practical business knowledge and skills. His 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. His TEDx talk on The First 20 Hours is one of the top 25 most-viewed TED talks published to date, with over 22 million views on YouTube. Prior to developing the Personal MBA full-time, Josh worked as an Assistant Brand Manager in Procter & Gamble's Home Care division, where he was responsible for projects that encompassed P&G's entire value chain. Josh’s current projects involve online and live training programs, on-going research in business and skill acquisition, writing, and programming.
Josh Kaufman Professional Experience / Academic History
Academic History
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B.B.A., Business Information Systems, Real Estate, and Aristotelian/Stoic Philosophy
The Personal MBA has been featured as the #1 bestseller in Business Training and Business Management on Amazon.com.
The widely-acclaimed Personal MBA manifesto and business reading list has been downloaded over 5 million times by readers around the world.
It has been used as a textbook for business courses at Stanford University, New York university, Howard university, and Portland State university.
PersonalMBA.com has been visited over 5 million times by readers all over the world since its founding in 2005.
THE FIRST 20 HOURS
It has been featured as the #1 bestseller in Business Self-Improvement, Educational Psychology, and Personal Transformation on Amazon.com.
It details a universal, field-tested method of rapid skill acquisition designed to help readers pick up rewarding new skills in record time.
The First 20 Hours was an instant international bestseller, and the book has been translated into six languages.
HOW TO FIGHT A HYDRA
How to Fight a Hydra has been featured as the #1 bestseller in Modern Philosophy on Amazon.com.
It is a short story about the nature of ambition, risk, uncertainty, and fear of the unknown.
Josh was involved from creating new products to working with large customers like Wal-Mart, Target, Costco, and Kroger.
Before leaving P&G, he spearheaded the development of P&G's global online marketing measurement strategy.
SPEAKING
Josh has been a featured speaker at The Aspen Ideas Festival, Stanford University, World Domination Summit, Pioneer Nation, Microconf, BaconBiz, Google, and IBM.
HONORS & RECOGNITIONS
2013 Forbes Top 100 Websites for Entrepreneurs
Josh has been featured as the #1 bestselling author in Business & Money, as ranked by Amazon.com.
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
Josh's research has been featured by The New York Times, The BBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Fortune, Forbes, Time, and BusinessWeek.
He has been featured in Wired, Fast Company, Financial Times, HarvardBusiness.org, The World Economic Forum, and Inside Higher Ed.
He has also been featured in Lifehacker, MarketWatch, The Independent, Bloomberg TV, PBS Next Avenue, CCTV, and CNN's Sanjay Gupta MD.