<p>Building powerful business relationships is a fundamental key to success for leaders, sales professionals, and contributors of all types. That’s why Tim Sanders has circled the globe as a keynote speaker at conferences, conventions and corporate meetings, sharing his perspectives, delivering solutions and strategies and changing lives.</p><p>Tim is the CEO of Deeper Media, a research and consultancy firm that serves leading global brands, government agencies, and trade associations. Deeper Media helps individuals and organizations tackle marketing innovation, sales performance, talent management, leadership development, and organizational culture. He’s served on advisory boards for several startups, including the social reading website Goodreads, which was purchased by Amazon in 2014.</p><p>Tim is the author of five books, including the New York Times bestseller, Love is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends. His publications have over one million copies in print with bestseller status in India, South Korea, Italy, Brazil, and Denmark.</p><p>Throughout his career, he’s been on the cutting edge of innovation and change management. Fresh out of graduate school, he was deeply involved in the quality revolution, which disrupted manufacturing in the 1980’s. He joined the cellular phone industry the year it debuted in North America. He was an early stage member of Mark Cuban’s broadcast.com, which had the largest opening day gain in IPO history. He went to Yahoo! when they acquired Cuban’s company for almost six billion dollars and rose to the Chief Solutions Officer position and later was named the company’s leadership coach.</p><p>Tim credits his passions of research, critical thinking, and public speaking to his high school days, where he was the captain of the debate team, and then later in college, a national champion. He points to his years of fronting a rock band as the epicenter of his innovative approach to marketing.</p><p>Today, his mission is to bring all of his life experiences and his unconventional, disruptive – yet inspired strategies and perspectives to thousands of people every year, helping them to boost their leadership effectiveness, human connection, and business performance.</p>
Best-Selling Author, Technology Pioneer, Expert on Collaboration & Relationships
<ul><li><strong>Go Faster Into the Age of AI - Accelerate Your Organization's AI Journey</strong></li><li>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?"</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li><strong>AI Trends from the Frontline</strong></li><li>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. </li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li><strong>Unleash Innovation with Disruptive Collaboration</strong></li><li>"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.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li></ul>