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Tim Sanders

Vice President of Research Insights at G2, Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School and NY Times Best Selling Author

Tim Sanders
  • Founded Deeper Media, providing consulting and training services to global brands
  • New York Times best-selling author of five books, with over 1 million copies in print
  • Top-rated keynote speaker who offers insights on leadership, development, sales strategy, and human performance
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As the Vice President of Research Insights at G2, Tim’s deep expertise in analyzing data to reveal trends, shows customers how to understand what’s actually happening in the market today, particularly as it relates to artificial intelligence.  

As an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School, he works with the Digital Data Design Institute to package AI and digital innovation research for application by business leaders.  

Most recently, Tim was the VP of Client Strategy at Upwork where he focused on helping businesses solve their talent gap problems, with an emphasis on digital transformation. 

Previous to that, he was the Chief Solutions Officer and a leadership coach at Yahoo, where he founded a ValueLab group which also produced research on industries, digital advertising effectiveness, search-data-as-predictor, and online promotions. Before Yahoo, he was an early-stage member of Mark Cuban’s broadcast.com, and a faculty member of the Global Institute of Leadership Development. 

With more than 25 years of experience working with companies on innovation and change management, Tim 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. He has also served as Chairperson for private equity’s most important events over the last few years.  

As a keynote speaker, Tim shares insights on artificial intelligence, digital transformation, collaboration, and change management topics. 

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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.

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.

“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. 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. 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.

Tim’s presentation was fantastic and blew away our high expectations. His presentation on building up your employees and why talent is everything was the perfect balance of engaging stories, researched facts, and takeaways that could be implemented in our markets.
Kristy Vinot - Cox Media Group
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 - Microsoft
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 - Marine Retailers Association of the Americas
Tim Sanders came in to present to our entire salesforce on how to build a deeper, more engaging relationship with clients. Within five minutes of his speech, you could see our audience “lean in”, as they were given smart, realistic, actionable advice that would help them build an authentically powerful bond with their clients, as well as establish unique collaboration techniques internally that could help them drive their business.
Phil Edelstein - Hartford Funds
I highly recommend Tim as an expert on Emotional Intelligence who understands what it means to customize his content!
Rich Rosier - Global Institute of Leadership Development
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, - California Ambulatory Surgery Association

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