About The Book
Come Up For Air
The most valuable resource you have is time.
While most folks focus on scaling their business by selling, Nick Sonnenberg has created a way to DESIGN TIME in your organization to maximize your resources, and free up massive amounts of time to refocus on higher value activities.
Nick’s company Leverage consults with 7, 8 and 9-figure enterprises to help teams maximize their performance and reduce overwhelm by teaching and implementing the foundational principles of the CPR® Business Efficiency Framework.
This framework eliminates the pain points most teams experience by optimizing the three operational areas foundational to every organization:
Regardless of size or industry, all organizations need to Come Up For Air to retain top talent, save more profit and grow to their potential.
What Clients Are Saying
Rave Reviews
"I used to have a three-hour meeting with my assistant each week to keep track of everything in my business. Now, I can get a 10-15 minute update from Asana and I know where everything is at any given time. I can offer assistance, I can prioritize, and I can de-prioritize."
Bo KIMBROUGHFounder & CEO of Skyepoint Decisions 
“We probably gave everybody somewhere in the neighborhood of two to three hours of their day back. Just because they’re checking their email less frequently and they’re not living out of their inbox."
Anthony CrissieFormer COO of LineDrive 
“Personally, I was stubborn and thought I did things the wrong way. Sitting down with Nick and his team, they showed me these little things that compound. Something saves five minutes, another saves ten minutes, and across my organization we’re all of a sudden saving hundreds of hours per month.”
Blake EastmanCEO of The Nonverbal Group 
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"I used to have a three-hour meeting with my assistant each week to keep track of everything in my business. Now, I can get a 10-15 minute update from Asana and I know where everything is at any given time. I can offer assistance, I can prioritize, and I can de-prioritize."
Bo KIMBROUGHFounder & CEO of Skyepoint Decisions 
“We probably gave everybody somewhere in the neighborhood of two to three hours of their day back. Just because they’re checking their email less frequently and they’re not living out of their inbox."
Anthony CrissieFormer COO of LineDrive 
“Personally, I was stubborn and thought I did things the wrong way. Sitting down with Nick and his team, they showed me these little things that compound. Something saves five minutes, another saves ten minutes, and across my organization we’re all of a sudden saving hundreds of hours per month.”
Blake EastmanCEO of The Nonverbal Group 
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“The CPR® Framework is a simple, repeatable guide for aligning teams and organizations that drives immediate results and creates sustainable, meaningful change by empowering all people to utilize their full talents and catalyze new ideas. It’s the foundation for building a resilient organization that will enable companies to successfully navigate through uncertain times now and in the future.”
Marissa AndradaCulture Thought Leader, Independent Board Director at Krispy Kreme Donuts, and Former CHRO of Chipotle Mexican Grill 
"I've spent my life creating a community of Nobel laureates, Olympians, CEOs, celebrities, and scientists—so when it came time to design our system it had to be both flawless and human. That's where Nick Sonnenberg excels. He obsesses over the right technologies and habits that ensured my team was effective and my community was taken care of. That's why, after almost a decade, I still work with him."
Jon LevyBehavioral Scientist and New York Times Bestselling Author 
"Thanks to the way we now use Asana, we were able to win a bid for a $60 million contract. The client was blown away with our organized and professional process. It has truly transformed our business."
Marc J. BodnerCEO of L&R Distributors 
"Leverage has been a game-changer for us. Without their advice and support in implementing Slack, the pandemic would have been chaotic."
Nicole StorySVP of Marketing & Creative at Pourri 
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“The CPR® Framework is a simple, repeatable guide for aligning teams and organizations that drives immediate results and creates sustainable, meaningful change by empowering all people to utilize their full talents and catalyze new ideas. It’s the foundation for building a resilient organization that will enable companies to successfully navigate through uncertain times now and in the future.”
Marissa AndradaCulture Thought Leader, Independent Board Director at Krispy Kreme Donuts, and Former CHRO of Chipotle Mexican Grill 
"I've spent my life creating a community of Nobel laureates, Olympians, CEOs, celebrities, and scientists—so when it came time to design our system it had to be both flawless and human. That's where Nick Sonnenberg excels. He obsesses over the right technologies and habits that ensured my team was effective and my community was taken care of. That's why, after almost a decade, I still work with him."
Jon LevyBehavioral Scientist and New York Times Bestselling Author 
"Thanks to the way we now use Asana, we were able to win a bid for a $60 million contract. The client was blown away with our organized and professional process. It has truly transformed our business."
Marc J. BodnerCEO of L&R Distributors 
"Leverage has been a game-changer for us. Without their advice and support in implementing Slack, the pandemic would have been chaotic."
Nicole StorySVP of Marketing & Creative at Pourri 
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Companies I Consult For
OBSESSED WITH OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY
Nick Sonnenberg
Your Next Speaker
Nick uses his experience as an entrepreneur and leading efficiency consultant to Fortune 10 companies to help teams reinvent the way they work. In Come Up for Air and his signature presentations, he shows audiences how to shift their mindsets to realize the true value of saving time, along with easily-implemented advice to maximize the collective output of their teams. His ultimate goal is to help organizations around the globe save millions of hours and billions of dollars in lost productivity.
Nick's 
Column
Column
Nick's Column
on the Future of Work
Nick’s thought leadership and featured experts will change the face of your business and allow for a structure and process that builds a better culture and creates a framework for leadership to shine.
Nick's Podcast
with special co-host Jay Abraham
The Optimize Podcast (launching March 2023) is a Hot Seat style show where Nick and Jay facilitate consultative conversations that foster accelerated deep dives into modern business challenges.
Meet Nick
Nick Sonnenberg is an entrepreneur, WSJ Bestselling Author, Inc. columnist, and guest lecturer at Columbia University. Before founding Leverage, he spent eight years working as a high-frequency trader on Wall Street where he developed a love for (and obsession with) efficiency.
The CPR® Business Efficiency Framework is the culmination of Nick’s unique perspective on the value of time, efficiency, and automation that he’s developed over nearly a decade of working with teams of all sizes and across all industries. It consistently results in greater output, less stress, happier employees, and the potential to gain an extra full day per week in productivity per person—just by using the right tools in the right way, at the right time.
Learn more about Nick’s story and The CPR Framework in his new book, Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work, available for pre-order now.
