Speaker Profile
RANDY DEAN
Randy Dean, MBA: The E-mail Sanity Expert®, is a professional speaker and expert on time & e-mail management and the related use of technology. For 30 years, Randy has been leading programs for major corporate, university, association, and governmental audiences. Obsessed with time management and personal productivity, he left a successful career as a university administrator, professional marketer, and media strategist to become a leading speaker and trainer. The author of the 2009 Amazon bestseller, Taming the E-mail Beast, and the new Taming the E-mail Beast REBOOT eBook, Randy is also the producer and creator of several highly regarded video-based self-study courses that are posted on many of the major online learning platforms. He has led programs for thousands of inspired students, managers, and professionals on being more productive with their time, e-mail and technology. His highly informative and entertaining speaking, training and webinar programs (he is a Certified Virtual Presenter) leave audience members with immediately usable tools, strategies, and tips for saving time and effort, finding more focus and less distraction, and achieving higher efficiency and productivity.
Randy is best known for his programs on time, project, people, distraction, and especially e-mail management using popular tools like Microsoft Outlook & 365, Gmail/Google Workspace apps, and smart phones & tablets. His popular YouTube channel provides numerous short video tips on key software tools like Outlook and Gmail, as well as content on key productivity and time management strategies, techniques, and issues.
His speaking and training programs are consistently some of the highest-rated programs for the many clients he speaks for, including at major conferences and conventions, Fortune 500 organizations, top universities, governmental agencies, and leading nonprofits -- basically anyone struggling to better manage their time, e-mail, and smart phone/tablet devices. (And he makes these topics fun and engaging too!)
He has previously been interviewed by numerous media outlets including radio, television, newspaper, and blog/podcast sites. He is a 20-year member of the National Speakers Association (NSA) and also a member of the Michigan Society of Association Executives.

Randy Dean
June 25 2025
01 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
Finding an Extra Hour Every Day: Time & Tech Management Tips for Busy Professionals
The speaker developed this program as a “quick-hitting” set of tips and strategies for busy professionals to find more time and productivity in many of their day-to-day activities as office-based and/or hybrid professionals. We discuss better strategies for input management – including e-mail, voice mail, documents and e-documents, text messages, IM’s – and how to process these with better efficiency while ..

Randy Dean
July 01 2025
01 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
Hot Tips for Reducing Distraction and E-Distraction in Work and Life
Speakers' experience with many different audiences and industries is that they are fighting a wave of distractions and interruptions throughout the day, and it has become exceedingly difficult for them to find focus and sanity throughout the day. Having some strategies for better managing their daily inputs, distractions, and interruptions could be the difference between a successful, fulfilling career and ..

Randy Dean
August 11 2025
01 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
Optimizing Your MS Outlook: Using Outlook to Manage Your Time, Projects/Tasks, People, and Ideas
What is listed in the learning objectives below actually tracks along very well with what is covered in this session in order. I spend about 75% of the program in my actual working Microsoft Outlook vs. PowerPoint, showing how to use "the other four" functions beyond e-mail: Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, and Notes, and how you can set up your Outlook not only for better short and long-term time and project/peo..