From 20-Year Vision to Daily Actions: Doing to Done with Mike Williams
March 25, 2026 | 10:00 am – 11:30 am PDT
Productivity expert Mike Williams joins us from Southern California to share practical strategies for using OmniFocus to achieve sustainable productivity.
Join Tim Stringer and Mike Williams, creator of Doing to Done and former CEO of the David Allen Company, for a conversation that bridges the essential and the aspirational – the maintenance actions that keep life running and the bigger picture outcomes that make it meaningful.
This 90-minute session addresses a core sustainability challenge: how do you create space for our most important roles to be fully expressed while managing the necessary actions that support routine aspects of daily life? Through the Doing to Done framework, we’ll explore how OmniFocus can provide both structure for maintenance and metrics that reveal whether we’re investing time appropriately across all life roles.
Starting with the Life Map, we’ll journey through Current Reality to Chapters, demonstrating how to work with a 20-year timeframe that invites you to step into the bigger picture of your life. You’ll discover how to name roles creatively (Supportive Father, Energetic Accountant, Adventurous Traveler) and how Chapters, with their natural beginnings and endings, create opportunities for renewal and blank slates.
This session reinforces the 2026 Learn OmniFocus theme of Sustainability in Practice by showing how consistent engagement with all your roles creates a truly sustainable way of living and working; one that honors both the necessary and the transformational.
About Mike Williams
Through his leadership roles with General Electric, The David Allen Company, and Zappos, Mike kept noticing that people were desperate for a better path to productivity to help them fight digital distractions, mind clutter, and wasteful uses of their time. But the only resources available involved complex approaches, reading thick self-help books, or participating in boring seminars.
He knew a better way existed – one rooted in simplicity and realism. In his pursuit, he spent two decades working with thousands of people across different industries – from rocket scientists to business leaders to students to nonprofit organizations.
Today, Mike assists clients using an effective coaching methodology that’s far from complicated. He also used what works to create Doing to Done—Productivity Made Simple, Illustrated for Busy People Like Us, a visually engaging book about quick wins with significant impacts. Bringing a bit of Southern California energy to his work, he firmly believes that managing stress through better productivity shouldn’t be so stressful.
His interactive offerings include the Clarity Collection Community, a coaching program to “Turn Overwhelm into Clarity”, and the Productivity Masterclass Workshop.