Jay Papasan is an American writer and business executive. He is best known for co-authoring, with Gary Keller, books such as The Millionaire Real Estate Investor, which became a New York Times best-seller and a BusinessWeek best-seller, and The ONE Thing, which reached #1 on the Wall Street Journal business best-seller list. Papasan is the vice president of publishing and executive editor at KellerINK, the publishing arm of Keller Williams Realty. He and his wife Wendy are owners of The Papasan Real Estate Team. In 2014, he was named one of the Most Powerful People in Real Estate by Swanepoel Power 200.

Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, after attending the University of Memphis, Papasan spent several years working abroad in Paris before attending New York University’s graduate writing program. Upon graduating, he found work at HarperCollins Publishers, where he helped piece together bestselling books such as Body-for-Life by Bill Phillips and Go for the Goal by Mia Hamm. After moving to Austin, he joined Keller Williams Realty International, the world’s largest real estate company, where he serves as the vice president of learning and vice president of KellerINK.