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Tim Sanders

Speaker

Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

Vice President of Customer Insights at Upwork & People-Centric Business Expert

Tim Sanders is the Vice President of Customer Insights at Upwork, driving their customer-centric approach to help businesses solve their talent gap problems. As a strategic consulting for leading global brands, government agencies, and trade associations, he has helped individuals and organizations tackle marketing innovation, sales performance, talent management, leadership development, and organizational culture. He’s served on advisory boards for several startups, including the social reading website Goodreads, which was purchased by Amazon.

Keynote Speeches

Virtual Keynotes & Webinars
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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 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
This Business Of AI: How to Convert the Hype into Business Growth

Join us for an enlightening session with Tim Sanders, an authority on driving business growth through Artificial Intelligence. In a landscape inundated with technology enthusiasts, Tim stands out as a pragmatic expert, dedicated to translating AI’s potential into tangible returns on investment.

With a global reputation for guiding executives through the complexities of AI strategy, Tim’s insights are invaluable for any organization seeking to leverage exponential growth to create value. As an executive fellow at Harvard Business School’s Digital Data Design Institute, he spearheads insight development, aimed at democratizing AI for business leaders worldwide.

Tim’s approach is not just about adopting AI for the sake of innovation; it’s about strategically reframing business challenges as “prediction problems” to ensure maximum return on AI investments. Through engaging dialogue and real-world case studies, he will demystify AI for you and empower you to put it to work in your business.

Drawing from his extensive experience, Tim also sheds light on the often-overlooked pitfalls of AI implementation and shares actionable strategies to mitigate risks and optimize investments. By collaborating closely with meeting stakeholders, Tim tailors his remarks to address specific business challenges and event objectives, leaving attendees equipped with practical insights to drive transformative change within their organizations.

Key Learning Objectives:

  • Gain a strategic framework for ensuring Return on AI by reframing business challenges as prediction problems.
  • Explore the booming landscape of GenAI and identify high impact use cases for delivering ROI.
  • Navigate the hidden costs of AI implementation and learn how to avoid common pitfalls.
  • Discover proven strategies to de-risk AI programs, enabling more “swings at the plate.”
  • Reveal how managers and leaders can measure the value of AI investments.

Audience reviews:

  • Tim’s presentation was research backed, tactical and relevant to today’s landscape. Attendees commented it was one of the best webinars they’ve ever attended. - Senior Manager of Portfolio Engagement, Insight Partners
  • Tim Sanders is the only speaker we have invited back in 14 years of running our convention. Simple reason – he delivers! His presentations are informative and inspiring – our delegates don`t just listen; they take notes. Tim never stops at the presentation. He then goes and works the tables at lunch, hands out his cards and says please e-mail me. He always responds. This guy is probably the best value motivational business speaker on the circuit!

    - Yorkshire International Business Convention
  • Tim took the time to get to know our organization, our business and the goals we wanted to achieve, and the results showed. If you're looking to refresh your approach to sales, Tim brings the winning edge. From networking to injecting creativity in the sales process, our sales team tripled their contacts and delivered a +28% YOY revenue gain for a recording setting sales year!

    - SVP Sales, Jumpstart Automotive
  • 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.

    - President, Society for Marketing Professional Services
  • You set the perfect tone for the conference. I heard from many, many attendees that your message resonated on several levels. You did what we asked ‘in spades’ and made us look good. What more could a meeting planner ask for?

    - Managing Director, AAA Travel
  • Would rate you as one of the best speakers I’ve ever had the pleasure to work with. Your willingness to spend time tailoring the presentation and talking to members prior to the conference was most appreciated. I wish all the speakers I work with could be as generous and caring about the outcome of their efforts as you are.

    - Senior Director, SOCAP International
  • Tim knocked it out of the park on “The Art of Leading Remote Talent.” Feedback was off the charts from our 100+ Supplier members. I had several companies comment on timeliness and importance of the content.
    - The McDonald’s Supplier Network

Speaker Biography

Upwork’s Vice President of Client Strategy
Fellow @ D3 Institute at Harvard
Business School
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.