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Seize the Play: 10 Ways Play Becomes a Performance Accelerator
Play isn't a distraction from serious work—it's one of the fastest ways to improve it. In this high-energy talk, Tim shares 10 proven ideas that show how play unlocks deep focus (flow), stronger collaboration, and breakthrough thinking. Drawing on decades of real-world creative work—along with insights around flow and reciprocity—Tim gives audiences practical tools they can immediately apply to solve problems faster, work better together, and generate more innovative ideas. WATCH A CLIP.
Compelling Connections: Why What You Transmit Matters
Every interaction shapes culture—whether we intend it or not. In this moving and thought-provoking talk, Tim helps audiences understand how influence actually works, and how small, everyday behaviors can strengthen trust, connection, and impact. WATCH A CLIP.
GO DIRECTLY TO FAIL: Remove Your Fear of Failure for Breakthrough Innovation
Failure isn't the opposite of success—it's the path to it. Through humorous stories from iconic brands and practical insights from behavioral science, Tim helps audiences reframe failure as a strategic advantage rather than a setback
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Host and Producer of the Toy & Game Innovation Awards
Tim hosted and produced the original TAGIE Awards for 8 years, honoring game and toy innovators from all over the world! Considered the "Oscars" of the toy industry, the TAGIE Awards take place annually in Chicago and are produced by People of Play in conjunction with the Toy Association.
Keynote, USC Physical Sciences in Oncology Symposium
The USC Physical Sciences in Oncology Center asked Tim to speak on how play can help researchers attack complicated problems more successfully. The USC PSOC specializes in a form of cancer research that brings experts from outside the field of biochemistry to the fight, including engineers, mathematicians, and physicists.