Tim Ash – Keynotes & Workshops
Tim Ash is a dynamic international keynote speaker with over 200 appearances across four continents. Whether it is for and audience of 12 or 12,000 people – get the very best keynote for your next conference, training or virtual event!
Complete info about Tim’s keynotes and workshops (in-person and virtual) is on the speaking overview on TimAsh.com.
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Popular Keynote Topics
Unleash The Primal Brain: The caveman’s guide to leveraging polarization
Why can’t we all just get along?
The roots of tribalism and polarization are buried deep in our evolutionary inheritance. We automatically form into opposing groups over the smallest differences, and fiercely defend our positions.
All of us recognize the corrosive effects of polarization in our workplaces:
- Higher employee turnover
- Inability to attract top talent
- Inter-team conflicts
- Reduced productivity and engagement
- Unwillingness to voice valuable perspectives
- Lower job satisfaction
- Higher medical costs
Polarization is not some “soft” issue. It is at the heart of your organization’s competitiveness…
Evolutionary psychology expert and bestselling author Tim Ash will take you on a provocative tour through our distant past to explain our present-day behaviors.
You will learn:
- How we evolved to spread culture
- Why being a team player is more important than being right
- The brutal methods used to enforce tribal solidarity
- The circumstances under which we are most likely to polarize
- How to build intentional positive tribes in our workplaces
With these foundational insights, executives and leaders can reliably create dedicated, loyal and unified companies and teams.
Get ready – it’s going to be a wild ride!
Unleash The 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…
The Big Bet: 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 The Primal 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!
Decision-making Under Duress – Unleash Your Primal Brain!
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!
Creating Memorable Events – Unleash Your Primal Brain!
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!
Ask Me Anything 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!
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