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Tim Sanders, New York Times Bestselling Author, Top-Rated Keynote Speaker, Business Leader, and Practitioner who live to inspire and help leaders worldwide.
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Tim's session definitely resonated with our partners and helped challenge their assumptions about the future and to “think bigger”. At showtime, Tim absolutely wowed the audience. His message of collaboration is relevant to every type of business professional and every type of industry. He will leave your audience utterly inspired and engaged.
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Tim Sanders is more than just a motivational speaker; he’s a strategic partner who can bring clarity, focus, and actionable insights to your complex organizational challenges. When you book Tim for your event, you’re not just securing a speaker; you’re securing a seasoned guide who can help your organization find its way through the corporate maze.
Tim’s reputation precedes him. He’s known for his remarkable ability to help businesses address talent gap issues and embrace a customer-centric approach. He’s a trusted resource in areas like marketing innovation, sales performance, talent management, leadership development, and organizational culture. Tim is your compass in the corporate world, leading you toward success.
His accomplishments are a testament to his expertise. As the author of five books, including the New York Times bestseller “Love is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends,” Tim’s impact reaches a global scale. His publications have achieved bestseller status in multiple countries, underlining his profound influence.
Tim’s career has been marked by a relentless pursuit of innovation and change management. From his involvement in the quality revolution of the 1980s to the pioneering days of the cellular phone industry in North America, he’s been at the forefront of transformation. His early affiliation with Mark Cuban’s broadcast.com, which recorded the largest opening day IPO gain in history, is a testament to his capacity to thrive in innovative environments. Later, at Yahoo!, he assumed crucial roles, including Chief Solutions Officer and leadership coach.
Booking Tim Sanders isn’t just about hiring a speaker—it’s about offering your organization a transformative experience. His unconventional, disruptive, and inspired strategies can elevate your leadership effectiveness, enhance human connections, and drive superior business performance.
If you want to increase your company’s velocity and competitiveness, embark on The Grand Redesign. This new leadership approach leverages design thinking to improve how the work is delivered and plans are met.
Tim Sanders, New York Times bestselling author and Upwork executive, offers a stunning collection of insights, statistics and customer stories that illustrate how leaders can tackle today’s biggest challenges.
Deliver a key value proposition to talent: Flexibility. This is emerging as a key to driving productivity, innovation and employee retention. This is done by employing the right design questions that will help leaders craft the perfect hybrid solution for their teams.
The last three years have been filled with change from Covid to digital disruption to the economy. Historically, times of great change are the best times to redesign key components of your culture – starting with “how we work now.”
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:
You’ve likely worked with remote talent before, be they freelancers or full-time employees who have a flexible work arrangement with your company. But today, many of your talents are working remotely from home due to the Covid-19 crisis. More than ever, you need a solid skillset when it comes to managing those who you won’t see face to face in your offices.
That’s why Upwork Vice President of Customer Insights, Tim Sanders, has produced a 45-minute virtual session to give you the best practices in leading remote talents of all types. He’s scoured academic and industrial research as well as interviewed enterprise leaders experienced in remote talent management to create this insightful and actionable program.
The session will reveal helpful and surprising best practices in remote communications focused on platforms, cadences, nuance, and service level agreements on responsiveness.
You’ll also learn how to remotely manage:
Long after your employees return to on-premise work, you’ll be able to put this session to use as you manage remote workers and/or independent contractors. It is the key to developing an agile workforce that can drive key initiatives from business growth to digital transformation.
Many of your best people are on the verge of suffering professional burnout. They’ve stepped up the number of working hours, partially due to the new work-from-home environment, but mostly because they need to get more done with less.
Researchers declare that burnout is a threat to companies in 2021—the pandemic’s new world of work is showing collateral damage including turnover, loss of productivity and a lack of creative energy.
The good news is that burnout can be prevented and alleviated in the early stages through designed workstreams and personally managed through the development of boundaries and wellness habits.
In this presentation, Tim provides insights on what it takes to restore work-life integration in 2021. He’ll share the latest research as well as best practices from companies and wellness advisors.
You’ll learn how to:
“Hearing Tim Sanders speak is a game-changer for your business. He taught us about the value of building diverse teams and how important it is to build strong internal and external relationships long before these relationships are needed.”
Craig Galati, President
Tim was absolutely great. Everyone loved hearing him. I, myself had the pleasure of working with him one on one and he was so personable and easy going. He was a perfect match for our conference.
Candice Woodson
What made Tim stand out amongst the sea of keynote speakers was his sincere interest in customizing his presentation to offer value to our audience. He went above and beyond to get to know our industry and ensure his keynote and the supporting resources he provided contributed to our mission of helping our attendees improve and grow their businesses.
Liz Walz
You hit the target dead on. The subject and presentation was exactly what we wanted. I had one Board member relay that they appreciated how it was at their level and useful, not just pie in the sky feel good messaging.
Elizabeth LaBouyer
Tim’s speech energized and inspired our company. I was impressed with how quickly Tim understood our culture, strategy and challenges. He developed a speech that was both insightful and impactful. Many of our employees said Tim was one of the best speakers they have heard.
Larry English
Attendees had nothing but praises for your session.
Cookie Dorsey
Tim was fantastic. We had high engagement throughout the session. I really appreciated that Tim sent over the 4k video and audio assets. That was a pleasant surprise and we are using those in our final on demand replay. He was a great partner for this engagement.
I can’t speak more highly of Tim Sanders. He is not only a superb and engaging speaker, but he is also such a great person. He provides relevant research, antidotes, humor and heart. He loves what he does and it shows. At our recent customer/prospect conference, our audience raved about him!
Grace Lee
If you want to take your sales conference to the next level, do what I did: Bring Tim Sanders in as your keynote speaker.
Eric Gilpin
At the reception immediately following our event I saw firsthand the value Tim’s message offers as I witnessed several team members from different departments collaborating on innovative ideas we could use to improve our business offerings to our clients…this was an afternoon that was well worthwhile and I would highly recommend it to others!
Mike Santarone
The audience really enjoyed Tim's take on generational talent and the different leadership styles needed to build trust. They also liked his tips on how to make themselves better recruiters for their open roles and the Cox Media brand. His audience was eager for his perspective that morning.
Merrie Beth Salazar
It went great! Tim is wonderful to work with and our audience LOVED him!!! They couldn’t stop raving about him and his presentation.
Katie Schultz
It was magical how you connected with the audience. The feedback was that you really inspired them and touched them in a way that is more intimate than usual at a business function helping us to build some great relationships.
Kate Taylor
You were beyond fantastic. In one hour you propelled this group years ahead in our quest to instill the notions which you expound.
Rick Kimball
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
I love the research that went into Tim’s webinar on remote talent management – from simple reminders to insights that are contrary to public opinion.
Joy Lim
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