Tim Ash: Leadership Speaker
Tim Ash is a digital marketing strategist, keynote speaker, and bestselling author who applies evolutionary psychology to improve conversion rates and customer behavior.
Quick Facts:
- Highlights:
- International keynote speaker on digital marketing and behavioral science
- Author of Unleash Your Primal Brain and Landing Page Optimization
- Co-founder and former CEO of SiteTuners
- Pioneer in conversion rate optimization and neuromarketing
- Formats: Keynote Speaker and Digital Marketing Strategist
- Audiences: Marketing leaders, digital strategists, entrepreneurs, technology companies, and organizations seeking to improve customer engagement and online performance.
- Outcomes:
- Understanding how evolutionary psychology influences customer decisions
- Practical strategies for improving website conversions and digital marketing results
- Insights into persuasion, neuromarketing, and user-centered design
- Travels from: San Diego, CA
- **Fee range: $10,001 - $20,000
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Keynote Topics:
The Initiated Tribe:
How Evolved Leaders Are Winning The War For Talent
Are you losing the war for talent?
There’s a massive demographic worker shortage looming and the competition is getting fiercer. And the expectations of employees have also radically changed – demanding much more than a paycheck.
As an executive, you’ve seen the devastating effects in your workplace:
- Reduced productivity and engagement
- Higher employee turnover
- Inability to attract top talent
The competition for talent is not some “soft” issue. It is the brutal reality blocking your company’s growth.
But what if you could:
- Understand our deep human need for tribal belonging?
- Discover the mechanisms by which any group can reliably be bonded?
- Create powerful initiation experiences that produce loyalty and excellence?
Well, you can!
Evolutionary psychology expert and bestselling author Tim Ash takes you on a provocative tour through our distant past to upgrade your modern workplace.
- Fortify team performance: Unleash the collaboration, creativity, resilience, and communication that automatically result from deeper social bonds.
- Attract excellent employees: Grow your company more quickly as your employer brand becomes a powerful magnet for like-minded high-performers who are eager to participate in your company culture.
- Hone your leadership skills: Ground in the durable science of evolutionary psychology to unlock the best behavior in your people and teams.
Don’t miss this transformative experience!
Branding Through Initiation:
How to build fanatical tribes of customers who love your products
Does your brand inspire fanatical loyalty?
There’s a massive war for consumer attention and it is only getting worse.
As a marketer, you’ve seen the devastating effects in your industry:
- Channels are multiplying
- Consumer engagement is lower than ever
- And costs are skyrocketing
The competition for attention is not some “soft” issue. It is the brutal reality blocking your company’s growth.
But what if you could:
- Understand our deep human need for tribal belonging?
- Discover the mechanisms by which any group can reliably be bonded?
- Create powerful initiation experiences that produce loyalty and passion?
Well, you can!
Evolutionary psychology expert and bestselling author Tim Ash takes you on a provocative tour through our distant past to upgrade your modern brand.
- Reduce churn: Stop the revolving door and have repeat buyers for stay for a lifetime.
- Boost response: Flip low response rates to attracting people who seek you out based on your brand reputation.
- Create evangelists: Turn fickle consumers into passionate members of your brand tribe.
Don’t miss this transformative experience!
Unleash Your Primal Brain:
Tapping the unconscious to move people to action
Drop a rock. It falls and hits the ground.
Once you understand brain evolution, many of our decisions will become easily predictable. To a scary degree, we are walking robots with knee-jerk responses, and not the rational geniuses with free will that we like to imagine.
What if you understood how the brain really makes decisions, and could consistently influence it? In this dynamic keynote, bestselling author and neuromarketing expert Tim Ash will teach you key strategies for influencing the primitive and irrational parts of the brain that are really in charge of our actions. You’ll learn how to tap powerful universal motivations and automatic responses to deliver your marketing message on-target every time.
Walk away with a new perspective on the brain, and several durable and practical strategies for ethically influencing your audience.
Are you ready to be inspired?
Only an illogical person would miss this session…
Unleash Your Primal Brain: How People Evolved To Spread Culture!
People are bizarre!
Unlike other animals which occupy wide ecological niches, we did not physically adapt to our environment. Instead we placed one giant evolutionary bet on spreading culture.
We can learn more from our surrounding tribe than we ever could in a lifetime of direct experience.
In this dynamic keynote by evolutionary psychology and marketing expert Tim Ash you will learn:
- What makes people physically different from all other animals
- How genes and culture co-evolved us
- The building blocks of culture
- How we learn and teach others
- The importance of blind faith and following social rules
Get ready – it’s going to be a wild ride!
Unleash Your Primal Brain: The Transformative Power of Storytelling!
There are countless animal species which can communicate and use sophisticated language.
But storytelling is a uniquely-human superpower! We have used it to build massive civilizations, and to take over the whole planet.
What drove us to evolve this sophisticated new ability? The only way to unleash the power of storytelling is to understand it’s deep evolutionary roots.
In this dynamic keynote by evolutionary psychology and marketing expert Tim Ash you will learn about:
- How we can literally mind-meld with others
- How stories create causality and help us to understanding the world
- Practicing important skills without paying the high price
- Reinforcing tribal cohesion and unity
Get ready – it’s going to be a wild ride!
Unleash Your Primal Brain to Get Stuff Done!
Why is doing the right thing so hard?
Whether it’s updating your resume, planning to clean your house, or working on that long-term project at work, do you find yourself struggling to keep the simplest commitments to yourself and others?
It doesn’t have to be this way.
Learn to harness the power of evolutionary psychology to create motivation and follow-through and achieve your goals!
You’ll learn:
- Why doing nothing is the default option for your brain
- How to motivate yourself with fear and pain avoidance
- The power of commitment and externalizing accountability
- Shaming and the weight of social sanctions
- Playing with triggers to make good things easier and bad things harder to do
Buckle up—you’re about to become more productive!
Unleash Your Primal Brain: Decision-making Under Duress
The results are unpredictable, but you have to act now!
What if you understood how the brain really makes decisions, and could consistently influence it? In this dynamic keynote, bestselling author and evolutionary psychology expert Tim Ash will teach you key strategies for influencing the primitive and irrational parts of the brain that are really in charge of our actions. You’ll learn how to tap powerful universal motivations and automatic responses to make better decisions every time.
Walk away with a new perspective on the brain, and several durable and practical strategies for improving your personal and professional performance.
Are you ready to be inspired?
Get ready – it’s going to be a wild ride!
Unleash Your Primal Brain: Creating Memorable Events!
What makes an event stand out?
It’s probably not what you think….
In this dynamic keynote by evolutionary psychology and marketing expert Tim Ash you will learn about:
- How to create the most vivid and long-lasting memories
- The power of storytelling
- Understanding the power of motion and images in presentations
- How synchronized group activities make people feel better about themselves
- Why conformity and compliance is deeply rooted in our nature
- The power of competition and belonging to a tribe
Are you ready to be inspired?
Get ready – it’s going to be a wild ride!
Fireside Chat with Tim Ash
Fireside Chat with Tim Ash – Author of Unleash Your Primal Brain
Worldwide keynote speaker, and bestselling author Tim Ash is an expert in evolutionary psychology and digital marketing.
Join Tim for an unleashed ask-me-anything session about evolutionary psychology and how our brains really work. Sure to me an exciting and no-holds-barred exchange!
Talent Short Bio
Tim Ash is an internationally recognized authority on digital marketing, evolutionary psychology, and conversion rate optimization. A bestselling author and keynote speaker, he helps organizations understand how human behavior and decision making influence online engagement, marketing performance, and business growth.
Tim is the author of the bestselling books Unleash Your Primal Brain and Landing Page Optimization, which have sold more than 50,000 copies worldwide and have been translated into multiple languages. His work explores how ancient human instincts shape modern digital behavior and how businesses can use those insights to improve marketing results.
As co-founder and former CEO of SiteTuners, Tim spent nearly two decades helping companies improve website performance and user experience. His work has generated more than $1.2 billion in value for major global organizations including Google, Facebook, Expedia, American Express, Nestlé, and Cisco.
Read Full Bio
Tim Ash is an acknowledged authority on evolutionary psychology and digital marketing. He is a sought-after international keynote speaker, and the bestselling author of Unleash Your Primal Brain and Landing Page Optimization (with over 50,000 copies sold worldwide, and translated into six languages).
He has been mentioned by Forbes as a Top-10 Online Marketing Expert, and by Entrepreneur Magazine as an Online Marketing Influencer To Watch.
Tim Ash is a highly-rated keynote speaker and presenter at over 200 events across four continents. He has been asked to return as a keynote at dozens of events because of the fantastic audience response. Tim shines on massive stages with over 12,000 attendees, as well as in intimate executive events or workshops. He offers dynamic conference keynotes, workshops, and corporate training services (both in-person and virtually). Tim also selectively works as an online marketing advisor with senior executives.
For nineteen years he was the co-founder and CEO of SiteTuners – a strategic digital optimization agency. Tim Ash has developed deep expertise in user-centered design, persuasion, understanding consumer behavior, neuromarketing, and landing page testing. In the mid-1990s he became one of the early pioneers in the discipline of website conversion rate optimization (CRO).
Tim helped to create over 1.2 billion dollars in value for companies like Google, Expedia, eHarmony, Facebook, American Express, Canon, Nestle, Symantec, Intuit, Humana, Siemens, and Cisco.
He was the founding chair of the international Conversion Conference event series (with over 30 conferences in the US and Europe since 2010). Since 1995, he has authored more than 100 published articles. Tim was also the online voice of website improvement as the host of the Landing Page Optimization Podcast on WebmasterRadio.fm (over 130 recorded interview episodes with top online marketing experts).
Tim Ash earned a dual-major Bachelor of Science degree “with highest distinction” in Computer Engineering and Cognitive Science from U.C. San Diego while studying on a U.C. Regents Scholarship (the highest academic award of the U.C. system). He stayed on at U.C. San Diego for Ph.D. studies focused on machine learning and artificial intelligence. Although Tim never defended his dissertation, he advanced to candidacy and also earned his Master’s degree in Computer Science along the way.
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Summary of User Reviews for Tim Ash as a Keynote Speaker
Tim Ash consistently receives high praise from event organizers and attendees for his engaging and impactful presentations on online marketing. Users highlight several strengths, including:
1. Expertise and Knowledge: Tim's command of online marketing is frequently noted, with many reviews emphasizing his ability to deliver cogent, specific, and up-to-date material.
2. Engaging Delivery: Reviewers commend his energetic and dynamic speaking style, which keeps audiences entertained and engaged.
3. Positive Audience Feedback: Many users report overwhelmingly positive reactions from attendees, with some noting that his presentations inspire actionable changes in business practices.
4. Professionalism and Humility: Tim is described as humble and professional, making him a pleasure to work with and a compelling figure at events.
Some potential weaknesses were not explicitly mentioned, indicating a strong overall satisfaction with his performances.
In summary, Tim Ash is highly recommended as a keynote speaker for digital marketing events,…
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