Tim kicked our annual meeting off on the perfect note. Not only was his presentation engaging, timely and high energy, but he took the time and effort to target his expertise on the issues and challenges specific to our audience. He genuinely wanted to understand our interests and relate to the audience in a way that added maximum value and impact. I would not hesitate to bring him back to a future event and/or recommend him to others.
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Biography
As the Chief Innovation Officer at G2, Tim’s deep expertise in analyzing data to reveal trends, shows customers how to understand what’s actually happening in the market today, particularly as it relates to artificial intelligence.
As an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School, he works with the Digital Data Design Institute to package AI and digital innovation research for application by business leaders.
Most recently, Tim was the VP of Client Strategy at Upwork where he focused on helping businesses solve their talent gap problems, with an emphasis on digital transformation.
Previous to that, he was the Chief Solutions Officer and a leadership coach at Yahoo, where he founded a ValueLab group which also produced research on industries, digital advertising effectiveness, search-data-as-predictor, and online promotions. Before Yahoo, he was an early-stage member of Mark Cuban's broadcast.com, and a faculty member of the Global Institute of Leadership Development.
With more than 25 years of experience working with companies on innovation and change management, Tim is also the author of five books, including the New York Times bestseller, Love is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends. He has also served as Chairperson for private equity's most important events over the last few years.
As a keynote speaker, Tim shares insights on artificial intelligence, digital transformation, collaboration, and change management topics.
Tim Sanders
Featured Keynote Programs
Go Faster Into the Age of AI - Accelerate Your Organization's AI Journey
Kickstart your event with an energizing keynote designed to rapidly accelerate your organization's transition into an AI-first powerhouse. Tim Sanders challenges attendees with a transformative vision: "What if you could be 3x better this year and 10x better the next?"
In this dynamic session, Tim shares his proven roadmap to AI excellence, demonstrating how teams can turbocharge performance with just a few strategic hours per week. He demystifies AI, showing practical ways to integrate generative AI into daily workflows.
Leaders gain clear strategies to accelerate organizational adoption, ignite innovation, and foster ongoing conversations around AI. Through vivid case studies, personal stories, and compelling data, Tim uniquely combines inspiration with actionable leadership strategies.
Attendees will leave empowered with insights on generating Learning Effects, bridging Trust Gaps, and leveraging human judgment as a critical advantage in an AI-driven world.
Perfect for: Events accelerating digital transformation, organizations scaling AI adoption, and forward-thinking meetings that aim to proactively harness AI.
AI Mega Trends from the Front Lines of the Business World
Want to know how AI will disrupt—or turbocharge—your industry next year? Tim Sanders is your guide to the future. As the leader of Research Insights at G2 and an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School’s Digital Data Design Institute, Tim is at the forefront of AI-driven transformation. He spends his days in conversation with business leaders across industries, distilling insights that help organizations leverage AI for competitive advantage.
In this high-energy, insight-packed keynote, Tim unpacks the most important AI trends shaping the business landscape, revealing their economic impact and real-world applications. He translates complex AI concepts into clear, actionable strategies that accelerate business growth—enhancing efficiencies, driving hyper-productivity, and boosting velocity across go-to-market functions.
Tim’s dynamic storytelling and creative use of metaphor make AI accessible to business leaders at all levels. His keynote is always tailored to the audience’s industry and learning objectives, ensuring relevance and immediate value. Attendees will walk away inspired and activated, ready to explore AI’s possibilities and integrate them into their business strategies.
Perfect for: Business leaders, executives, and decision-makers seeking to harness AI for growth and innovation.
Unleash Innovation with Disruptive Collaboration
"The bigger the challenge, the wider you need to spin your collaborative web!” That’s the pivotal perspective of tech industry veteran, acclaimed collaboration expert and top rated keynote speaker Tim Sanders. His key insight: Innovation starts with the motivation to think outside of the box, but only comes to life when you courageously work across the lines of your organization.
During his tenure as a senior executive and Board member, Sanders has studied leaders that practice what he terms ‘disruptive collaboration,’ a problem-solving style that leverages surprising alliances along the fault-lines of a company. He’ll reveal how the biggest leaps and turnarounds in history came from ‘collisions of thought,’ not safe work in our silos of excellence.
As a keynote speaker Tim’s eye-opening messages keynote will deliver actionable insights and tools that will boost productivity, drive agility and lead to breakthrough business outcomes.
Learning Objectives:
Why Companies That Practice Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration Outperform Rivals
How to Leverage the Power of Multiple Perspectives to Solve Problems 3X Faster
How to Bring Multiple Stakeholder Needs From “Me-to-We” in a Collaborative Project
Why it’s Important to Build Relationships Across the Company long before you need them
"Tim Sanders is a great follow-on for clients who have booked me previously. Where I speak around innovation mindsets, Tim compliments this message with the idea of innovation through collaboration. He's great on stage, great to work with and does an incredible amount of customization for each client. I highly recommend him!"
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Tim Sanders
Featured Books
Dealstorming: The Secret Weapon That Can Solve Your Toughest Sales Challenges
by Tim Sanders
"The bestselling author of Love Is the Killer App unveils a methodology that sales managers and account executives can use to solve their team's toughest problems by combining the wisdom and creativity of everyone who has a stake in the sale. B2B sales reps often find that their deals get stuck at a crucial point in the decision-making process. This book is Tim Sanders's guide to breaking through the resistance and getting the deal unstuck using a scalable, repeatable process that he calls "Dealstorming." By including a diverse group of individuals in the organization who has a stake in the sale, questioning existing assumptions, and channeling the collective experience of the group, sales teams can uncover creative solutions to closing otherwise impossible deals. In Sanders's experience as a sales executive and consultant, utilizing this process has led to a stunning 70 percent close ratio. Take, for example, the way Alyssa Wichman of CareerBuilder used dealstorming to break a deadlock with staffing firm Allegis. When she found out that Allegis was sponsoring a golf tournament to raise money for their favorite nonprofit, she and her team sat down to come up with ways to meet the Allegis executives there, going so far as to take over manning a beer cart on the course to speak with the execs on the ninth hole. They were impressed she'd gone to such lengths to have a few minutes with them, so they agreed to a meeting the following week. "--
Today We Are Rich
by Tim Sanders
Are you just hanging in there? Have life's curveballs thrown you off balance? Do you feel as if your life is going sideways? Bestselling author, leadership coach, and former Yahoo! executive Tim Sanders knows how you feel. His father's unexpected death put him in a downward spiral for fifteen years—what he calls his "sideways years." In 1996, a photo of a dusty water tower in Texas finally got his attention. That's when he realized he needed to go home to his rock—his grandmother Billye, who had taken him in when he was four and raised him as her own. Rediscovering the lessons she had taught him as a child turned Tim's life around and, in less than four years, catapulted him to financial security and an officer-level role at an S&P 500 company at the center of the Internet revolution. Today, his promise to himself is "I will never forget those lessons. The price is too high." Join Tim as he rediscovers the classic principles of confident living that some of the most successful and joyful people you know live by.
Love is the Killer APP
by Tim Sanders
Are you wondering what the next killer app will be? Do you want to know how you can maintain and add to your value during these rapidly changing times? Are you wondering how the word love can even be used in the context of business? Instead of wondering, read this book and find out how to become a lovecat—a nice, smart person who succeeds in business and in life. How do you become a lovecat? By sharing your intangibles. By that I mean: Your knowledge: everything that comes from all the books that I’ll encourage you to devour. Your network: the collection of friends and contacts you now have, which I’ll teach you how to grow and nurture. Your compassion: that human warmth you already possess—in these pages I’ll convince you that you can show it freely at the office. What happens when you do all this? * You become a rich source of information to all around you. * You are seen as a person with valuable insight. * You are perceived as generous to a fault, producing surprise and delight. * You double your business intelligence in one year. * You triple your network of personal relationships in two years. * You quadruple the number of colleagues in your life who love you like family. In short, you become one of those amazing, outstanding people to whom everyone turns, who leads rather than follows, who never runs out of ideas, contacts, or friendship. Here’s the real scoop: Nice guys don’t finish last. They rule!
The Like Ability Factor
by Tim Sanders
From the bestselling author of Love Is the Killer App You can win life’s popularity contests The choices other people make about you determine your health, wealth, and happiness. And decades of research prove that people choose who they like. They vote for them, buy from them, marry them, and spend precious time with them. The good news is that you can arm yourself for the contest and win life’s battles for preference. How? By raising your likeability factor. The more you are liked, the happier your life will be. In The Likeability Factor, business guru Tim Sanders shows how to build your likeability factor by teaching you how to enhance four critical elements of your personality: • Friendliness: your ability to communicate liking and openness to others • Relevance: your capacity to connect with others’ interests, wants, and needs • Empathy: your ability to recognize, acknowledge, and experience other people’s feelings • Realness: the integrity that stands behind your likeability and guarantees its authenticity When you improve these areas and boost your likeability factor, you bring out the best in others, handle life’s challenges with grace, enjoy better health, and excel in your daily roles. You can win the close calls and tight competitions that define and determine success and happiness at work and in life—The Likeability Factor can show you how!
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