
Transform Your Team’s Performance
Empower your team to stay focused, get more done, and drive your business forward—without burning out.
Close Your Productivity Gap
Underperforming professionals aren’t lacking dedication or skill—they’re drowning in distractions.
Without the tools to manage time, attention, and workload, even high achievers end up feeling scattered and stuck.
The result? Missed deadlines, stalled innovation, and a slow leak in productivity that quietly drains your bottom line.
Distraction, disorganization, and disengagement don’t just slow your team down—they quietly drain momentum, morale, and money. The impact shows up in ways that cost you more than you realize:
- Productivity slows while operational costs climb
- Morale drops, motivation fades
- Time gets wasted, deadlines slip, quality suffers
- Burnout rises, and your best people walk
- Reputation takes a hit—and so does retention
- Clients notice, and business quietly disappears
- Everyone feels like there’s never enough time—no matter how hard they work
How are distraction, email, and meetings affecting your team’s ability to do meaningful work?

Why This Matters
Your team isn’t slacking—they’re maxed out. Everyone’s doing their best, but without the right skills to work with clarity, focus, and intention, performance hits a ceiling.
If you want to grow without burning out your people or bloating your payroll, your team needs a smarter way to work—not just harder. That’s where the Empowered Productivity System™ comes in.
It’s not another time management hack—it’s a proven, comprehensive framework that closes the skills gap holding your team back.
When people learn how to manage their attention, prioritize effectively, and stay fully engaged, they don’t just do more—they do better. And that’s when everything changes: results go up, stress goes down, and your leadership gets a whole lot easier.
I want you and your team to be able to bring your unique gifts to the world in a way that energizes instead of exhausts you.
“No pressure. Just a quick chat to explore how your team can reclaim their time and attention.”
How It Works
Empowered Productivity training isn’t a one-size-fits-all training—it’s a strategic, fully customizable solution designed to transform the way your team works, communicates, and performs.
The first step is to schedule a consultation call, during which Maura will take time to understand your team’s challenges, goals, and culture—so she can recommend the most effective path forward.
Then, the experience is tailored in three powerful ways:

Targeted Focus: We select only the modules that align with your specific business goals.

Precise Customization: Each session is shaped to address your team’s real, day-to-day obstacles.

Sustained Momentum: Optional coaching ensures the new skills take root—and internal champions lead the charge.
Ready to unlock the next level of performance for your team? Schedule a call to create a plan that drives measurable, sustainable results for your organization.
Empowered Productivity Training Programs Are Available in Three Formats
- Live, On-Site: Maura travels to your location to deliver dynamic in-person training, tailored to your goals and available in 4–16 hour formats based on your needs.
- Live, Virtual: Delivered in engaging two-hour modules over one to three weeks via Zoom. With a professional studio setup and 100+ virtual presentations under her belt, Maura creates an experience that feels almost like being in the room.
- Online, On-Demand: Two core modules are available anytime for individuals or teams, with options to license recordings or use in a guided “book club” format.
For more details, visit our Productivity Training FAQs, click here to download a guide that will help you select the right training and successfully utilize it to create meaningful change for your organization, or click here to read our tips for hiring a trainer.
Unlock a Culture of Peak Performance
Most teams aren’t lacking effort—they’re drowning in noise. Empowered Productivity training cuts through the chaos and unlocks next-level performance.
Designed for today’s high-pressure work environments, this training equips your people to manage their time, tasks, and tech with precision—so they can execute with clarity, consistency, and confidence.
Here’s what leaders are seeing:
- One extra hour of productivity per person, per day
- Sharper priorities, less firefighting, better outcomes
- Stress goes down, focus goes up
- Teams shift from burnout to buy-in
- A culture of accountability that actually sticks
And the results last:
- 91% feel more productive
- 91% feel more control over details of life and work
- 95% would recommend the training to others
- 96% are still using some or all of what they learned in the training
What People Are Saying
Maura’s insights have been featured in:
Because Focused People Do Extraordinary Things
When teams are empowered to cut through the noise, reclaim their time, and work with clarity—they don’t just get more done. They become more confident, more capable, and more fulfilled.
That’s the heart of Maura’s Empowered Productivity System™. It’s built to restore what today’s work culture too often strips away: a sense of control, progress, and purpose. And the cost of not addressing it is steep.
The average employee is interrupted every 11 minutes and takes 23 minutes to refocus. That means more than half of every hour is lost to distraction. For a team of just 10 people earning $50,000 a year, that adds up to over $300,000 in lost productivity annually.
This isn’t about pushing harder—it’s about working smarter. The Empowered Productivity System™ gives your team a repeatable method to protect their attention, prioritize what matters, and produce at a higher level—without adding stress or headcount.
Because when people stop reacting and start leading their day, everything changes. And the results aren’t just visible—they’re exponential.
Signs Your Team Is Ready for a Productivity Upgrade
- Inbox overload is burying your team's talent
- Everyone’s busy, but big goals still feel out of reach
- Meetings are eating up time without driving outcomes
- Mistakes, delays, or rework are becoming too common
- Engagement is fading, and job satisfaction is slipping
- Burnout and turnover are creeping in—or already a concern
- Every task feels urgent, and strategy takes a backseat to firefighting
- You’re scaling fast, but your team’s skills and systems aren’t keeping pace
- The idea of working fewer hours feels impossible—but increasingly attractive
- You want your team equipped to thrive—not just survive—in the face of rapid growth, tight resources, and nonstop demands of the above
When teams are organized, focused, and proactive, everything changes—productivity rises, people feel more fulfilled, and the company moves forward faster.
Let’s talk about how to make that your new reality.
About Maura
Maura Thomas is a pioneer in Attention Management™ and the go-to expert for team productivity in today’s fast-paced, distraction-heavy workplace. A TEDx speaker, award-winning author, and media resource for outlets like Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Fast Company, Maura has spent over two decades helping organizations like Dell, L’Oréal, and the U.S. Army create focused, high-performing teams. Her proprietary Empowered Productivity System™ goes beyond time management to deliver lasting behavior change that boosts performance, engagement, and results. When leaders want real transformation—not just another training—Maura is the one they call










