Tim Sanders

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A bestselling author, leadership coach, and former Yahoo! executive, Tim Sanders is one of today’s most prominent advocates for building business success through sharing knowledge, networks, and compassion with your business partners. He's a rare hybrid of business speaker, motivational speaker and tech trends guru.

Tim Sanders is much more than a keynote speaker, however; his real world experience, research savvy and deep understanding of the human condition make him an indispensable consultant to some of the biggest brands in the world. His Los Angeles based company conducts research on business trends, new media and human behavior.

Tim’s most recent book is, Today, We Are Rich – Harnessing the Power of Total Confidence.

Tim Sanders also has valuable experience in cutting-edge businesses, sales and marketing. He's weathered the quality movement as well as the dotcom crash and emerged with precious insight. At ground zero during the dotcom crash, as Yahoo!’s Chief Solutions Officer, he saw some companies and individuals rise up from the ashes and others wither and fail. The difference, he learned, lies in confidence, trust in team and belief in mission. He should know; these practices catapulted him from sales executive at Mark Cuban’s broadcast.com to Chief Solutions Officer at Yahoo! in less than four years. Today Tim Sanders speaks to audiences around the world about how to instill a solutions-oriented, promise-keeping culture of highly confident and innovative people.

Tim Sanders' research, passion and ability to move audiences to action makes him one a perfect fit for sales, leadership, association and customer events.

More About Tim Sanders. . .
After graduate school and a short stint working with quality movement guru Ed Deming, Tim Sanders went to work for Southwestern Bell Mobile systems at the birth of the U.S. cellular phone industry. He applied his expertise of quality, marketing and sales to help launch one of the most important industries of our time – wireless communications for the masses.

In 1996, Sanders went to work at broadcast.com for Mark Cuban, an audacious entrepreneur. After the company was sold to Yahoo!, Sanders created and led the Yahoo! ValueLab - an in-house "think tank" which delivered futuristic insight on technology and human behavior. While working there, he discovered that the company was moving too slowly for the innovation required at the time. Leading by example, he started a movement that inspired the company’s executives to make more and faster decisions and to take calculated risks. Even though he was just a Director, within one year, market analysts and board members recognized him as the leader in the company.

In 2002, Tim Sanders was named Chief Solutions Officer at Yahoo!, at a time when the Internet industry was going through significant change and pressure from the stock market. He was charged with responding to multi-million dollar critical situations and empowered to make decisions in the field. From this experience, he learned that leadership is a personal decision, not just the function of a title.

Tim Sanders' first book, Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends is a New York Times and international business best seller. It stresses the importance of knowledge sharing, networking and compassion. His follow up, The Likeability Factor explains the concept of emotional talent and the importance of creating an engaging experience. His third book, Saving the World at Work, examines the external relationship between a business and society. Tim Sanders argues that social responsibility and sustainability are hotbeds for business innovation. Companies that focus on these areas will attract new customers as well as boost the morale of employees and partners.

Tim Sanders attended Loyola Marymount University and studied in the graduate school of communications at the University of Arizona.