The Focused Future Of Work with Fred Stutzman
How can we to truly focus and get work done? What’s the best way to lead a remote team?
Our guest this week is Fred Stutzman, the founder and CEO of Freedom, an app that helps you be incredibly focused and productive, and focus on what matters. Freedom’s team has been innovators and leaders in the future of focused work for 10 years, and is just getting started. In the conversation with Fred, we will test the concept of focused work and dive into Fred’s leadership of his entirely remote team.
More on Fred Stutzman
Fred Stutzman is the Founder and CEO of Freedom. In a distraction-first world, his company believes that the ability to reliably and consistently do focused, deep work is a differentiating skillset. Their suite of apps have been used by over two million people to complete their graduate degrees, write screenplays and novels, produce reports and analyses, and to just turn off the noise of a distracting world.
Fred is a seasoned executive and serial entrepreneur, having taken multiple consumer technology companies from the idea/R&D phase to market. His core strengths include technology development, remote team formation and management, and using research-driven strategies to identify market needs. Fred has conducted research at both UNC-Chapel Hill and Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Science (HCI), and degrees in Survey Research and Economics from UNC-Chapel Hill. Additionally, he completed postdoctoral work in Behavioral Economics at CMU.
Previously, he co-founded ClaimID, a distributed social identity provider, served as Director of Technology for Ibiblio.org/Metalab, where he managed large, distributed technical projects. In his spare time, Fred is a competitive masters racer on the bike.
