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Tim Sanders is the author of the New York Times' best sellers Love Is The Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends, Saving the World at Work and The Likeability Factor. Tim's keynotes explore the measurable aspects of likeability, including levels of friendliness, relevance, empathy, and realness and how you can improve your life by increasing your likeability factor.

From 2001 to 2003, Sanders served as the Chief Solutions Officer at Yahoo!, delivering next-generation marketing programs to world class brands. He currently serves as Yahoo!'s Leadership Coach as well as advises business and public sector leaders on next generation strategies. Sanders is one of the most eloquent and poignant speakers on the circuit, sought after to deliver high energy and compelling speeches and seminars.

Prior to his current position, Sanders created and led the Yahoo! ValueLab, an in-house "think tank" which delivers value-added propositions to prospective and current Yahoo! clients. The team Sanders built continues to serve as a consultation practice for clients by coordinating and leveraging Yahoo!'s resources to find, connect with, and add value to clients' growth strategies.

Sanders joined Yahoo! as part of the acquisition of broadcast.com in July 1999. For over two years at broadcast.com, he served as an integral part of the company's business services division and developed audio and video broadcast ventures for a variety of clients including The Limited, Inc. (the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Web cast), Harvard University, Dell Computers, Intel, and Ford Motors.

Sander's dynamic speaking presence and presentation skills have landed him appearances at high-level executive conferences and graduate schools, as well as an enthusiastic endorsement from renowned business motivational speaker, Tom Peters. He developed and honed these skills as a competitive debater, where he was national debate and public speaking champion in five categories over his career.

Sanders attended Loyola Marymount University as an undergraduate and the University of Arizona for graduate work. He worked in the early cellular phone industry in the 1980s and produced content for cable television in the 1990s until going to work for broadcast.com in 1996.

Presentation Descriptions

NEW in 2009: Mojo Rising: How Total Confidence Leads To Success

If you are looking to lift your group out of the recession doldrums, this keynote is perfect for your meeting.  According to best selling author Tim Sanders, success will flow to people that possess Mojo: a sweeping sense of total confidence that expectations will be exceeded, and that there is enough to go around.  If you have this outlook, you’ll be collaborative, innovative and emerge as a leader. Because of the recent economic meltdown, most people lack Mojo and are more likely to be filled with thoughts of scarcity. Left unchecked, it could hold back people and entire organizations long after the economy recovers. 

This keynote will outline a diet and exercise plan to increase your group’s Mojo. Tim Sanders will show the audience how to modify their information diet, reconsider the influences around them and sharpen their skills with education. Finally, he’ll demonstrate how gratitude and generosity exercises lead to personal, corporate and community confidence.

Tim Sanders was at ground zero during the dotcom crash, as Yahoo!’s Chief Solutions Officer. He saw some companies and individuals rise up from the ashes and others wither and fail. The difference, he learned, lies in perspective and practice. This customized keynote, taking your organization’s unique situation into account, will give actionable advice on how to return to greatness again, despite the signs of the times.

Save the World at Work

This keynote is based on Tim Sanders' book, Saving the World at Work: What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Go Beyond Making a Profit to Making a Difference. There is a revolution going on in the business world where companies will compete based on social innovations. Consumers, talent and investors are gravitating to companies that achieve high levels of social responsibility towards people, communities and the environment. The key for companies to thrive during this new era of business is to innovate how it does business and achieve high levels of employee participation. Companies leading the revolution include: Google, SAS Institute, Aveda, Patagonia, Interface, General Electric and Wal-Mart. Tim’s keynote has an empowering message: A single employee can change the culture of an entire organization. A single employee can band together with like minded coworkers and create a powerful group for good. Sample stories that can be included in the keynote: A regional sales manager at InterfaceFLOR that saved landfills from over one hundred million tons of discarded carpet. A corporate attorney that convinced Microsoft product managers to dramatically reduce packaging size and waste. A small group of bank tellers that convinced their senior management to get involved in breast cancer fundraising as a branding strategy.

This talk will challenge audience members to:

• Improve the quality of life of all employees and workers
• Connect with local host communities and strengthen them
• Reduce individual and company environmental footprint

Corporate meetings (Sales, Management, Leadership): Tim will consult with the client to identify social opportunities already in existence, but not well participated in. Examples include: Foundations, mentorship programs, ethics programs and volunteer activities. From the platform, Tim will identify these programs and show the audience how to “save the world at work” when they
get home by immediately signing up for these programs.

Association and Industry meetings: Tim’s team will research the relevant social opportunities in an industry (example: recycling in electronics) as well as the association’s most important social causes. He will advocate them from
the platform.

Great fits for Tim Sanders' keynote: any company or association that is making social responsibility or sustainability a key part of their strategy. Eight out of ten Fortune 500 CEOs see this as the most important brand and reputation issue of the future. Less than one out of ten employees ever participate in any environmental, community or social programs at their company. Tim’s talk will be music to these executive’s ears.

The Likeability Factor
There's a menace out there, and it's slowly killing us. It's cutting our profits. It's taking away our customers, friends, and partners. It's ruining our health. It's shortening our lives and making them more unpleasant. It causes relationship rot and kills our teams. It's our L-factor-diminished by unlikeable behavior. On a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is wildly likeable, and 1 is despised by all-too many rate a 3 or a 4. Every person has a likeability factor that either helps them win in the game of life or lose in the battle for relationships.

The practical impact of this problem can be seen everywhere. People buy from sales people they like, they purchase products that they like from companies with a high L Factor. Doctors spend more time in office visits with likeable people and offer them more free advice. Likeable plaintiffs in civil suits are granted more money in settlements. Likeable people do better in job interviews and receive higher merit raises. People listen to likeable people more closely and retain more information. Highly likeable people bring out the best in others.

The research is overwhelming - for personal, corporate, and national success, we have to possess likeability. Best selling author Tim Sanders, has studied and written about this problem in his second book The Likeability Factor, and now has the research-based program to show audiences how to boost their L-Factors for greater success on all levels. This keynote presentation outlines how likeability is the key to health, wealth and happiness.

Harnessing the Power of Great Relationships
Based on his best selling book, Love Is The Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends, this presentation outlines a neo-Carnegie approach to better business. His theme is that happy employees and satisfied customers drive business. He provides advice on how to build relationships with Knowledge, Networking and Compassion. Case studies, statistics and specific examples provide great proof that a positive work environment and positive customer dialogue always produces better profits as well as customer/employee satisfaction. Tim argues that some companies operate on a vicious cycle while others build a virtuous circle based on caring and trust.

Throughout the talk, Tim draws on a theme that defines great relationships, solid business culture and innovation: Abundance vs. Scarcity. In this talk, Tim outlines the threat of scarcity thinking to any great organization. He also outlines ways to spot it and rid your culture of it. This is a customized talk, designed to meet the needs of a relationship driven theme. Tim conducts numerous interviews with audience members, executives and meeting planners to determine specific stories that will bring to life the following statement: "You will accomplish more in the next two months developing a sincere interest in two people than you'll accomplish in the next two years, trying to get two people interested in you!"