Tim Sanders
Former Yahoo chief solutions officer and best-selling author Tim Sanders is one of the top-rated leadership keynote speakers on the lecture circuit.
Wireless communication transformed the way our world operates today, and through the quality, marketing, and sales expertise of Tim Sanders — once we were exposed to it we haven’t been able to put it down. Tim is the maverick CEO of Los Angeles tech start-up Net Minds, founder of research firm Deeper Media Incorporated, and author of four books including the global best seller Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business & Influence Friends. He is such a unique leadership speaker that rather than call him a speaker, Time Magazine referred to him as “a public consultant” – someone who uses keynotes as a means to elicit changed behavior in his audiences. Tim achieves this through his rare hybrid of business expert, motivational speaker, and people expert.
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 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
Leading with Love
What are some of the top challenges facing today’s leaders? Employee engagement and customer retention. Here’s what we know: Competition for our best people and most profitable customers is coming from every direction, disrupting our businesses. What can we do to cement strong relationships and stand out from the crowd? Lead with love.
In his New York Times bestselling book, “Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence People,” Tim Sanders explains that “love is the most powerful force in the business world, and we show it by sharing our knowledge, networks and compassion to promote success in other people.” His research finds that when we lead with love, we grow our business, foster innovation and build a highly resilient enterprise.
He has circled the globe, giving thousands of professionals the insights they need to lead a culture that values generosity, mentorship and empathy. In this inspiring keynote, he’ll combine compelling research, case studies and actionable takeaways that will move your audience to action.
In this eye-opening keynote, he’ll combine research, stories, and takeaways to inspire your audience to action.
Key Takeaways Include:
- Three ways to become a student of the game, and then later, a trusted advisor to others who are grappling with change.
- How to supercharge your networking skills by asking different questions … starting at this conference!
- How to put compassion at the center of key business decisions, from talent management to customer experience.
Making the Leap to Essential
Are you a ‘good option’ or ‘essential partner’ to your clients? According to best-selling author and
consultant Tim Sanders, it’s a question that could make or break your book of business next year. Your
competition is swinging for the fences, while disruptive innovations chip away at your client base. To
succeed in this new landscape, you need to deliver ridiculous levels of added value – becoming essential to
work with.
Tim’s company Deeper Media, has studied client loyalty, decoding what it takes to make the leap from
optional to essential: Be a sounding board, a fountain of knowledge and a connector of dots. In this game-changing
keynote, he will deliver actionable advice and tools that will help sales and professional service
providers improve their skill set, drive business continuity and grow their business.
You will learn:
- Four questions and two statements that will supercharge your listening skills.
- How to read faces for emotions, and then how to respond with empathy.
- Why clients are loyal to those who make connections on their behalf.
- How to identify your client’s higher order needs and then solve them with your products, other
resources at your company and your partner-network. - How to become a trusted mentor to your clients by challenging and empowering them.
Emotional Talent: The Final Frontier of Leadership Development
In a business world where disruption is a constant and competition is fierce, emotional intelligence (EQ) is just as important to a leader’s success as on-the-job experience and education (IQ). As leaders invest time sharpening their EQ to become more resilient and relationship-oriented, they develop what bestselling author, Tim Sanders calls Emotional Talent.
In his bestselling book The Likeability Factor, Tim reveals how emotional talent expands our influence, bringing out the best in others. Best of all, it’s an area where leaders can make great strides with a committed effort. “It’s all about dialing into the emotional side of any situation, then proceeding with generosity.”
He’s traveled the world delivering conference keynotes and training programs to leading companies, universities and government agencies, giving leaders actionable insights that improve their performance immediately. What sets Tim apart from other EQ experts is his high level of pre-event research and keynote customization to align his keynote to the organization’s greatest challenges.
In this eye-opening keynote, he’ll combine research, stories, and takeaways to inspire your audience to action.
Key Takeaways Include:
- A blueprint to emotional talent development: self-awareness, self-leadership, social awareness and relationship management.
- Why the mood state can have a 1000% impact on a company’s level of quality and innovation. Case studies range from Motorola to Google.
- How to leverage employee experience design to develop a strong emotional value proposition that attracts & retains talent.
- How to decode people’s emotions with 90% accuracy. Sanders will reveal the 7 Faces of Emotion, which can make you the smartest leader in the room.
- How to master the Art of Deep Listening by borrowing techniques from the best interviewers in the world.
“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.”
“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”.”
