Keynote speaker · Event emcee · Digital creator
Get your team comfortable being uncomfortable.
Innovation takes creative risk, and people only take risks when they feel safe. Tim Washer wrote for SNL, Conan and Last Week Tonight while spending 20 years inside IBM and Cisco. He uses the rules of improv to build that trust in your team.
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The joke gets them in the room. The idea is what they take back to work.
Get Comfortable Being UncomfortableBased on the TEDx talk “Follow the Fear”
The improv principles that let comedians build trust instantly, and how teams can use them to take the creative risks that lead to real innovation.
Building Trust with Humor and Humility
How leaders who can laugh at themselves earn trust: cut the corporate clutter, earn attention, and re-engage people who quietly checked out.
Humanize Brands through Humor
Lessons from making mainframes and routers funny: storytelling and comedy that get B2B audiences to watch, share and remember.
An emcee who keeps the room awake
Tim has hosted the Oscar Short Film Awards, events with Tony Hale, and panels on Capitol Hill and at the White House.
“Tim made a 10-hour day of technical sales training seem to fly by.”
“Tim is the Stephen Colbert of corporate events.”
“Tim knows how to energize an audience and get them laughing and thinking creatively.”
“Tim’s keynote at WSJ Digital Download was a highlight among the CMOs.”
A subject-matter expert in nonsense
Tim spent two decades at IBM and Cisco, mostly feigning interest on conference calls, while moonlighting for SNL, Conan and Last Week Tonight. He studied improv under Amy Poehler and used comedy to humanize some of the world’s most boring brands.
He’s spoken at TEDx, SXSW, Google, Microsoft and Harvard Business School, and holds an MBA from UT Austin, where he majored in PowerPoint.
Make your next event the one people actually talk about.
Pick your date and tell Tim about the event. He’ll confirm availability within two business days.
Prefer email? book@timwasher.com