TOPICS
Creativity
10 Tips to Hack the Creativity Curve features ideas that help Tim succeed in multiple creative fields. With tips from Right Brain Red, the book he wrote with Reyn Guyer (Grammy® winner and inventor of Nerf and Twister), plus insights from his own research, this loaded lecture will super-charge your team's creativity! (SEE CLIP BELOW)
Connection
Tim screens clips and offers important takeaways from his film, OPERATION: Operation in this moving talk Compelling Connections: Why Your Influence Matters. Including research from the book Connected by Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler, this lecture challenges your audience to own what they're transmitting. (SEE CLIP BELOW)
Innovation
In Seize the Play, Tim illustrates how Flow and Reciprocity, two of the highest forms of play, super-charge productivity, team work, problem solving and innovation. Featuring key points that are practical and powerful, this is a great jumpstart talk for any creative team!
Longevity
What role does creative engagement play in longevity? Can consistently entering FLOW prolong your career? Tim shares ideas like these from 104 year-old design pro, Eddy Goldfarb, and from his own career. After 35 years of designing, Tim recently won a 2025 Game Designer of the Year Award and speaks with clarity on how to achieve peak performance at any age.
Failure
In this humorous talk, Tim shares stories from the most successful outdoor toy company in history. WHAM-O made mega-hits like Frisbee, Hula-Hoop, Super Ball, Slip 'n Slide, and Hacky Sack... and a profuse number of flops! With additional incites from James Clear's Atomic Habits, and examples from Monopoly's sorted history, Tim encourages his audience to "GO TO FAIL. Go Directly to Fail."
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Tim customizes all his presentations. Let's brainstorm ways to create an event that achieves your goals and provides practical, playful take-ways for your team. Life is short. Seize the Play!
Clip from 10 Tips to Hack the Creativity Curve
Clip from Compelling Connections
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.