Mike Vardy is a writer and productivity strategist. He is the founder of Productivityist, a company designed to help people stop “doing” productive and start “being” productive. He has served as the Managing Editor at Lifehack, and contributed articles on productivity to 99u, Lifehacker, The Next Web, SUCCESS Magazine, The Huffington Post, and many more. He is the author of “The Front Nine: How To Start The Year You Want Anytime You Want” (published by Diversion Books) and “The Productivityist Workbook.”
Mike has delivered talks on the topic of task and time management at events like New Media Expo, Social Media Camp, TEDx Victoria, South By Southwest, and delivered a three-day online workshop for the popular online education platform creativeLIVE. Mike has also appeared as a guest on HuffPost LIVE, FourCAST, and hosts The Productivityist Podcast, a weekly audio program featuring conversations with top entrepreneurs and experts on the topic of personal productivity.
He lives in Victoria, BC, Canada with his amazing and supportive wife, daughter, and son.