I'm Jason Atwood, CEO and co-founder of Arkus, where we've helped 800+ mission-driven organizations get more from Salesforce since 2010. I'm a Salesforce MVP Hall of Famer, a GTD® practitioner since 2004, and co-host of 300+ CloudFocus Weekly episodes. Based in New York City, I write, speak, and run races.
About
Salesforce since 2000. GTD® since 2004. CEO and co-founder of Arkus.
On November 3, 2000, I clicked "sign up" on a young web app called Salesforce while running IT for a small startup. Twenty-five years later, it is the foundation of my professional life.
At a Wall Street firm I founded and ran a Central Salesforce Office. In 2010 I co-founded Arkus on a simple belief: great technology, delivered with purpose, can transform how mission-driven organizations work. I served as COO for twelve years and have been CEO since 2022. Arkus has now supported more than 800 organizations, most of them nonprofits, and we adopted the Pledge 1% model from day one.
I've been a Salesforce MVP since 2012 and am honored to be in the MVP Hall of Fame. I co-hosted 300+ episodes of the CloudFocus Weekly podcast, have written for the Arkus blog since 2009, and speak at Dreamforce, TDX, World Tours, and community-led Dreamin' events.
My other obsession is productivity. I've practiced Getting Things Done® since 2004, logged more than 1,000 weekly reviews, and helped install GTD across an entire company.
I'm a Skidmore graduate, a father, and a runner of races, based in New York City.
What I care about
- CRM and AI adoption for mission-driven organizations. Nonprofit Cloud vs. NPSP, Agentforce, and agentic workflows, in plain English.
- Operations and remote-team culture. Leading a remote consultancy through every tech wave; Slack at Arkus since 2015.
- Productivity at scale. Getting Things Done® across a whole company, not just a to-do list.
- Community and giving back. Arkus adopted the Pledge 1% model at its founding; the Salesforce community has shaped my career.
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