Contact Odette		About Odette Pollar Odette Pollar is a nationally acclaimed business author, speaker, trainer, syndicated columnist and consultant who helps companies work smarter. Whether in print, on stage or on-site, Odette enhances performance, improves office management and streamlines day-to-day systems and operations. Her nationally syndicated newspaper column, Smart Ways to Work, dispenses weekly wisdom and strategies for workplace success. A compilation of her most popular tips will be available in book form shortly. Each of Odette's five books address aspects of her WorkSmart philosophy: Surviving Information Overload Take Back Your Life: Smart Ways to Simplify Daily Living 365 Ways to Simplify Your Work Life Organizing Your Workspace: A Guide to Personal Productivity Dynamics of Diversity: Strategic Programs for Your Organization Odette is in demand as a platform speaker. Her down to earth approach and nuts and bolts remedies offer audiences immediate relief from the tyrannies of technology, the glut of information and the seemingly overwhelming demands of complex work environments. She is acclaimed for her skill at gaining audience interaction. As a trainer, Odette delivers highly customized programs on personal productivity, balancing work and life, maximizing the benefits of diversity, and work simplification. She has developed a series of multimedia resources: video, audio and CD Rom training programs to further assist her clients. When Odette isn't speaking, writing or appearing on radio and television programs, she consults to a variety of fortune 500 companies, helping them to WorkSmart. Her twenty plus years of expertise in organizational development, training and facilitation techniques, have led to long term relationships with clients such as McDonald's, VISA, Shell Oil and Merrill Lynch. Founder and president of Smart Ways to Work in Oakland, Odette is ready to help you and your organization. View Odette's Client List