Nick Sonnenberg

AI that gives your team their time back.

Nick Sonnenberg shows leaders how to put AI to work without creating more work. Keynote speaker, bestselling author, founder of Leverage.

Nick has cracked the code on operational efficiency.
Tony Robbinson the cover of Come Up For Air
Nick Sonnenberg playing speed chess against an opponent at a stone table in a New York park.

Who this is

  • Author
  • Speaker
  • Founder
  • World Chessboxing Champion

Nick spent eight years as a high-frequency trader on Wall Street, where a millisecond of wasted work was a measurable loss. That is where the obsession started. Leverage, the firm he founded afterwards, applies the same intolerance for wasted motion to teams instead of order books.

He is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, wrote a column for Inc., and has guest lectured at Columbia University. He is also a world champion at chessboxing, a sport that alternates rounds of speed chess and boxing, which is either irrelevant or the most relevant thing on this page depending on how you feel about composure under pressure.

Companies I consult for

  • Inc.
  • Columbia University
  • Entrepreneurs' Organization
  • Strategic Coach
  • Tony Robbins
  • Project Management Institute