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Productivity Mentors & Educators

Creators who teach time management, organization and work habits: which programs they offer, at what published price and with what reviews.

Productivity covers people who teach how to organize work: managing time and attention, note-taking and task systems, regular reviews and the digital tools that keep it all running. The audience is usually professional, and much of the content applies regardless of industry.

Offers range from short courses on a specific app to complete methods with a community. As with automation, it is worth checking whether what they teach depends on one particular app or is a method you can take anywhere.

For each profile we record, when the information is public:

  • Which method or tools they teach.
  • The programs on record and their published price.
  • Their official channels and the source of each fact.

29 profiles. The order is not a ranking, just a way to look at the list.

Ali Abdaal

Productivity · Content Creation · Online Business · Hong Kong

British former NHS doctor turned YouTuber and author of Feel-Good Productivity. He sells the Lifestyle Business Academy coaching programme and self-paced courses on YouTube and productivity.

No reviews yet6.7Mfollowers

Mel Robbins· Melanie Robbins

Productivity · Personal Development · United States

American author, podcast host and former lawyer known for The 5 Second Rule and The Let Them Theory. She sells self-help books and audio programs and offers free video trainings on her website.

No reviews yet6.2Mfollowers

Matt D'Avella· Matt DAvella

Productivity · YouTube · Content Creation · Australia

Documentary filmmaker and YouTuber known for videos on minimalism, habits and productivity. Sells Master YouTube, an online course for starting a YouTube channel, at $495 or three payments of $165.

No reviews yet4.1Mfollowers

Leila Gharani· XelPlus

Artificial Intelligence · Productivity · Online Education · Austria

Vienna-area Excel instructor, Microsoft MVP and YouTuber who founded XelPlus, which sells self-paced courses on Excel, Power BI, Python in Excel and ChatGPT.

No reviews yet3.1Mfollowers

Dan Martell· Dan V Martell

Entrepreneurship · Online Business · Coaching · Productivity · Canada

Canadian entrepreneur and business coach from Moncton, New Brunswick, founder of SaaS Academy and author of Buy Back Your Time (Portfolio, 2023). He sells invite-only coaching programs for founders without published prices.

No reviews yet3.1Mfollowers

Thomas Frank· Tom Frank

Productivity · Content Creation · YouTube · United States

Productivity YouTuber (3.01M subscribers) and founder of College Info Geek who sells the Notion systems Ultimate Brain and Creator's Companion. Not the political writer of the same name.

No reviews yet3.0Mfollowers

Justin Sung· iCanStudy

Productivity · Online Education · New Zealand

Former medical doctor turned learning coach, co-founder of iCanStudy, a subscription program on learning techniques priced at $399 a year, and host of a YouTube channel with 2.24 million subscribers.

No reviews yet2.2Mfollowers

Ryan Holiday· Daily Stoic

Productivity · Personal Development · United States

American author and founder of Daily Stoic, which sells email-based Stoicism courses and challenges from $25 to $149 and a Daily Stoic Life membership at $299 for the first year.

No reviews yet2.1Mfollowers

Jim Kwik· Kwik Brain

Productivity · Personal Development · Online Education · United States

American brain coach, author of Limitless and host of the Kwik Brain podcast, who sells memory, speed-reading and learning training through Kwik Brain and Mindvalley.

No reviews yet1.9Mfollowers

Jeff Su· JeffSu

Productivity · Artificial Intelligence · Hong Kong

Former Google employee and productivity YouTuber who sells online courses on Google Workspace workflows and on organizing work with Claude Cowork.

No reviews yet1.9Mfollowers

Tim Ferriss· Timothy Ferriss

Productivity · Personal Development · Entrepreneurship · United States

American author of The 4-Hour Workweek and four other books, host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, and instructor of paid video classes on CreativeLive.

No reviews yet1.8Mfollowers

Dan Koe· thedankoe

Productivity · Content Creation · Online Business · Copywriting

Dan Koe is a writer and creator who teaches one-person business, writing and content creation through The 2 Hour Writer, Modern Mastery HQ and his paid newsletter future/proof. He is the author of The Art of Focus and co-founder of the software company Eden, formerly Kortex.

No reviews yet1.4Mfollowers

Mike and Matty Kenny· Cajun Koi Academy

YouTube · Content Creation · Productivity · United States

Brothers Mike and Matty Kenny, who describe themselves as former medical doctors, run the YouTube channel Mike and Matty, formerly Cajun Koi Academy, and sell the Study Quest learning course and a YouTube growth program.

No reviews yet1.4Mfollowers

Marie Forleo· MarieTV

Productivity · Online Business · Personal Development · United States

American entrepreneur and author of Everything Is Figureoutable, founder of Marie Forleo International and creator of the online programs B-School, The Copy Cure and Time Genius.

No reviews yet1.0Mfollowers

Elizabeth Filips· Lizzie Filips

Productivity · Personal Development · United Kingdom

London-based YouTuber who describes herself as a doctor, known for videos on learning, note-taking and productivity. She sells ebooks and Notion templates on Gumroad priced from $5 to $35.

No reviews yet977Kfollowers

Tiago Forte· Building a Second Brain

Productivity · Personal Development · Artificial Intelligence · United States

American productivity author and founder of Forte Labs, creator of the Building a Second Brain method and the PARA system, who sells self-paced courses, a live AI cohort and a paid membership.

No reviews yet389Kfollowers

Cal Newport· Calvin Newport

Productivity · Personal Development · United States

Georgetown computer science professor and author of Deep Work and Slow Productivity. Hosts the Deep Questions podcast and co-teaches the paid online courses Life of Focus and Top Performer with Scott Young.

No reviews yet359Kfollowers

Benjamin Keep· Ben Keep

Productivity · Online Education · Personal Development · United States

Learning scientist with a Stanford PhD and a Cornell law degree who publishes evidence-based videos on how people learn and runs the paid Keep Learning Community ($12 a month or $120 a year).

No reviews yet141Kfollowers

Matt Ragland· The Bullet Journal Guy

Productivity · Content Creation · Online Education · United States

Nashville-based YouTuber and productivity educator who sells self-paced courses and a live weekly-planning workshop on Podia, and formerly worked at ConvertKit and Podia.

No reviews yet116Kfollowers

Allie K. Miller· Open Machine

Artificial Intelligence · Online Education · Productivity · United States

Former AWS and IBM machine learning executive, CEO of the AI advisory firm Open Machine, and seller of the AI-First Academy online course for business professionals ($397 individual access as of September 2026).

No reviews yet113Kfollowers

Scott Young· Scott H. Young

Productivity · Online Education · Personal Development · Canada

Canadian writer and author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything who has blogged about learning and productivity at scotthyoung.com since 2006 and sells cohort-based online courses, two of them co-taught with Cal Newport.

No reviews yet108Kfollowers

Cassie Kozyrkov· Decision Leader

Artificial Intelligence · Productivity · Online Education

Former Chief Decision Scientist at Google and CEO of Kozyr. Sells live and on-demand courses on AI strategy and decision-making through Maven, plus a LinkedIn Learning course, advising and keynotes.

No reviews yet80Kfollowers

Greg McKeown· Essentialism Academy

Productivity · Personal Development · United States

Author of Essentialism and Effortless, speaker and host of The Greg McKeown Podcast. Sells video courses and memberships through the Essentialism Academy, run by McKeown, Inc.

No reviews yet64Kfollowers

Sahil Bloom· The Curiosity Chronicle

Productivity · Personal Development · Content Creation · United States

Author of The 5 Types of Wealth (Ballantine Books, 2025) and writer of The Curiosity Chronicle newsletter. Sells his books, keynote talks and paid one-on-one video calls through Intro, listed at $2,500 for 15 minutes.

No reviews yet61Kfollowers

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