Tim Sanders

Former Chief Solutions Officer at Yahoo, Leadership Coach and Bestselling Business Author

  • Tim Sanders Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $30,001 - $40,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    Nevada, USA

  • Tim Sanders Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $30,001 - $40,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    Nevada, USA

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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 ...

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.

“How AI can be your new best friend” was not only educational but actually fun to listen to. Tim’s deep expertise in artificial intelligence provided our audience with a comprehensive understanding of current AI trends and the serious implications for market research, employee experience and the customer experience. Notably, His prediction that Small Language Models would be “good enough” by 2025 resonated strongly with attendees, offering valuable foresight into the rapid advancements in AI technology. Tim was able to put our audience at ease with the vastness that is AI while simultaneously igniting an enthusiasm with actionable strategies.”

-Crystal Wiese, Sr Director Global Marketing, QuestionPro

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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-...

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.

“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”. 

Chief Administrative Officer, Farm Credit Bank of Texas

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Innovating Faster - Why Collaboration Changes Everything

Leaders in every industry prioritize innovation but are frustrated with how long it takes to bring breakthroughs to market. According to bestselling author and consultant Tim Sanders, the best way to speed up the innovation process is to promote a culture of ...

Leaders in every industry prioritize innovation but are frustrated with how long it takes to bring breakthroughs to market. According to bestselling author and consultant Tim Sanders, the best way to speed up the innovation process is to promote a culture of collaboration across your organization and externally with partners, customers and competimates.

Over his career, Tim 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 or its market. He’ll reveal how the biggest leaps and turnarounds in history came from collisions of thought, not safe work in our silos of excellence. Tim’s eye-opening keynote will deliver actionable insights and tools that will accelerate the rate of innovation, drive agility and quickly produce 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 Innovation Requires a Focus on Building a Collaborative Web of Relationships
  • How to Connect the Silos, One Collaboration Project at a Time

“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!” – Josh Linkner – Global Keynote Speaker

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About Keynote Speaker Tim Sanders

Upwork’s Vice President of Client Strategy, Fellow @ D3 Institute at Harvard Business School and NY Times Best Selling Author.

Tim leads client strategy at Upwork where he helps businesses implement better ways of working through the adoption of on demand talent solutions. He has more than 25 years of experience working with companies on innovation and change management. In 2024, he was appointed Executive Fellow at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard Business School. In that role, his focus is on delivering insights on the “Return on AI” for business leaders.

Tim began his career as an early-stage member of Mark Cuban’s broadcast.com and, once acquired, he became the Chief Solutions Officer at Yahoo!. He 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.

Testimonials

“I cannot begin to tell you what a great job Tim Sanders did for our YPO group last week. I believe it will turn out to be one of our chapter’s highest rated evets ever-and we’ve had some pretty fantastic resources. I would highly recommend Tim to any group of business executives who are seeking to get to “the next level”.”

Joe Dada

YPO California Coast Chapter

“We have received nothing but rave reviews about your debut presentation on likeability at the 2004 BetterManagement LIVE Worldwide Business Conference. The attendees thought that you were the ideal closing speaker for the conference, transitioning from business learning to very personal growth.”

Deanette Slepian

President, BetterManagement

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