Tim Ash – Keynote Topics
Tim’s most popular keynote topics are on subjects related to evolutionary psychology, corporate culture, leadership, sales, and marketing. Workshops and multi-day trainings are also available both in-person and virtually.
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[CULTURE & LEADERSHIP]
Primal Brain Company: The evolved leader’s guide to building powerful teams by leveraging polarization
Why can’t we ever just get along?…
Have you noticed that we automatically form into opposing groups over differences big and small?
And fiercely defend our positions?
Deep polarization touches every corner of our society, personal lives, and work!
As an executive, you’ve seen the devastating effects in your workplace:
- Inter-team conflicts
- Reduced productivity and engagement
- Higher employee turnover
- Inability to attract top talent
Polarization is not some “soft” issue.
It is the brutal reality blocking your success, and you can’t get rid of it!
But…
What if you could understand the roots and advantages of polarization?
What if you could reliably polarize powerful teams intentionally?
What if you could turn polarization into an unbeatable ally?
Well, you can!
Evolutionary psychology expert and bestselling author Tim Ash takes you on a provocative tour through our distant past.
After this journey you will be able to unlock polarization’s positive power.
With new insights, executives and leaders can reliably create fiercely dedicated, loyal and unified companies and teams.
Don’t miss this transformative experience!
[MARKETING & PERSUASION]
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…
[CULTURE & LEADERSHIP]
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!
[SALES & MARKETING]
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!
[PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY]
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!
[LEADERSHIP & PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS]
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!
[EVENT PLANNING]
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!
[ASK ME ANYTHING]
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!