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Tim Arnold

Leadership Development and Teambuilding Expert

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Lead with AND
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Next-Level Teamwork: The 5 Tensions to Manage for High-Performance Teams
The Power of Healthy Tension
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Tim Arnold
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Lead with AND
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Next-Level Teamwork: The 5 Tensions to Manage for High-Performance Teams
The Power of Healthy Tension

Leaders and teams are often in a tug-of-war, facing competing demands such as planning vs. action, structure vs. flexibility, change vs. stability, and work vs. home. In order to thrive, they must tackle these tensions head on. Tim Arnold provides his audiences with powerful tools that help them understand and breakthrough the chronic issues they face in both their professional and personal lives.

Arnold has spent over two decades helping leaders better manage complexity, increase resilience, and deliver results. Having run both a for-profit business and a homeless shelter, he leverages his real-world experience to help organizations pursue both profit and purpose. Past clients have included the United Nations, Compassion International, Royal Bank of Canada, Allstate Insurance, Toyota, and Siemens.

Arnold is the author of the bestselling books Lead with AND: The Secret to Resilience and Results in a Polarized World; The Power of Healthy Tension: Overcoming Chronic Issues and Conflicting Values; and Next-Level Teamwork: The Five Tensions to Manage for High Performance Teams. His work focuses on helping leaders unleash the superpower of “both/and” thinking in an “either/or” world.

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Presentations listed below include in-person and virtual keynotes, as well as workshops, fireside chats, and other presentation formats.

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  • Healthy Tension is a simple yet profound concept that our senior executives are now raving about. Tim’s presentation style kept the crowd engaged because we were able to learn and have fun at the same time!

  • It is always challenging to come up with a program that is the right fit for a senior management team who has experienced a variety of activities during the course of their careers. This turned out to be a truly innovative experience with the right combination of challenge, creativity, teamwork and fun. The dynamic and professional approach made the event a terrific success.

  • Despite a challenging venue and very diverse group, Tim was able to capture everyone’s attention and provided a wonderful opportunity for staff to interact, reflect, and learn. People still stop me in the hallway to tell me how much they loved the event.

  • I found great value in Tim Arnold’s presentation, realizing that some of our organizational issues are not problems to be solved, but tensions to be managed. More importantly I learned that if viewed from the proper perspective, tension between individuals on the team can be the catalyst for creative energy, innovation, and positive change. People walked away with a more positive outlook towards their working relationships and their personal relationships.

  • Tim Arnold’s down to earth approach empowers the head, enables the hand, engages the heart, and enriches the spirit. Participants raved about the relevance and usefulness of the content as well as the fun and effective facilitation style.

  • Thank you for providing a very engaging experience. We appreciated the energy and found the learning component of the keynote applicable to work and personal life. The feedback from the team has been incredible!

  • The concept of Healthy Tension has become one of the most useful tools in our company’s toolkit. It has transformed our understanding of how to approach issues like team building, leadership, change management and developing healthy dialogue on tough topics.

  • Through business cases that everyone could relate to, real life examples, and humour, Tim was able to equip us with the tools needed to overcome some of the toughest team and leadership challenges that we face in the workplace.

  • Thanks for the great job! You helped us achieve our goals we had for the day, the engagement was high, there was substance to the content, and the participants all learned a little more about each other. I heard only positive comments from the directors about their experience.

  • In this new world of work, leaders are dealing with unprecedented challenges like remote work, labour shortages, and ever-evolving technology, making teamwork more difficult yet more important than ever. “Next Level Teamwork” faces these challenges head on and provides a plan that can be implemented immediately in any workplace.

  • Thank you so much! We finished our leadership team offsite, and I have to say, Tim’s keynote was the highlight. I’ve never received such positive feedback on a speaker in my career.

  • Tim took the time to really understand our objectives, and the outcome was phenomenal. He captivated our entire audience. You could see people nodding their heads at the points being made and laughing at his stories and examples. In the end, we walked away with practical tools that I am confident we will put into action. I could not be more thrilled!

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