Tim Sanders

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Harnessing the Power of Total Confidence
This talk will provide examples of how top performers from the 30’s, 80’s and 90’s overcame economic adversity through practicing a set of principles that bolstered their positive attitude and ambition. Finding ways to innovate and grab opportunities, these top performers controlled their confidence without waiting for the market to give it to them. 

Phoenix Companies: How To Be The First To Bounce Back
Confidence in leadership, a “we will win” attitude, is the key to success during this recovery cycle in business. This talk focuses on instilling a solutions-oriented culture that moves things forward, leading to innovations that either drive efficiencies or capture market trends. Highlighting bold and innovative companies that found ways to move forward while their competitors stayed put, Sanders will show how this has been a proven post-recession tactic since 1911. Sanders’ 7 principles, if followed, give a boost in confidence, increased productivity and a drive to take it to the next level.

Tim Sanders gives the Power To The People
From people skills to humanizing business, his talks center on the people side of the profit and loss statement.  Too often, we approach business from a technological or financial sense and miss the bigger picture.  Based on hundreds of thousands of pages of research, he offers bottom-line expertise with clear takeaway items for audiences. Each talk is customized to fit the event theme and objectives.

People Skills Are Key
Business runs on relationships: company to employee, brand to customer and partner to partner.  During the last few years, emotions are frayed throughout a company’s value chain, creating a business opportunity for people centric companies.  The key to building and keeping relationships is emotional talent: confidence, friendliness, empathy and authenticity.

Do Well By Doing Good
If you grow everyone in your business life by sharing knowledge or networking, you will enjoy success over the long haul.  Why? People reciprocate and pay it forward.  If companies help employees prosper, retention is high and recruiting costs are low.  When they find synergistic ways to assist local communities in need, they generate local goodwill and employee satisfaction.  Done right, going green is good for the bottom line, and critical to winning the war for talent.

The Power Of One Person
One person, regardless of role or rank, can change the world.  Business history is filled with stories of staffers, sales reps, mid level managers and even factory workers that created change inside their company – which solved problems, created opportunities and inspired entire industries.

Summary Profile

Tim Sanders is the maverick CEO of Los Angeles tech start-up Net Minds and founder of research firm Deeper Media Incorporated. Prior to these positions, he was the Chief Solutions Officer at Yahoo, as well as its Leadership Coach (2001-2005). He's a strategic consultant to leading brands, associations and government agencies.

His background is economics, psychology and debate, giving him a rare blend of stories and science to move audiences to action. He's weathered the Quality Movement, the Dotcom Crash and the recent downturn of 2008 - emerging stronger from the experience.

Time Magazine called him a "Public Consultant" because of his extensive pre-keynote research and highly customized advice points for groups. He's one of the top rated speakers in the history of over twenty conferences, conventions and offsite meetings.

Tim is the author of four books, including the global best seller Love Is The Killer App: How to Win Business & Influence Friends. His second book, The Likeability Factor was featured in major media from USA Today to the New York Times. His latest book, Today We Are Rich: Harnessing the Power of Total Confidence is an Inc. Magazine business bestseller. Its message: "Take control of your outlook and get your confidence back!" is right for the times.

Corporate Experience

Tim 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.

After graduate school and a short stint working with quality movement guru Ed Deming, 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 their 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, 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.

Educational Background

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