Biography & Presskit

Tim Arnold has become one of North America’s leading voices on navigating complexity through his lead-with-AND approach. As a bestselling author and international keynote speaker, Tim equips leaders to move beyond polarized thinking so they can manage competing demands, lead change, and build thriving workplace cultures. His four-step Healthy Tension Framework has become the practical roadmap leaders rely on to transform tension into a leadership advantage.

Over the past two decades, more than 300,000 leaders, from Fortune 500 CEOs and Nobel laureates to frontline managers, have leveraged Tim’s expertise in some of the world’s most respected workplaces, including the United Nations, Stanford Medicine, Citibank, UPS, and World Vision.

Tim’s perspective comes from his own leadership experience. Before becoming an international speaker, he launched, scaled, and sold a for-profit business, directed a homeless shelter, built a social enterprise, and partnered with organizations around the world to tackle some of leadership’s toughest challenges. Those experiences shaped his conviction that many of the chronic issues leaders face aren’t problems to solve; they’re tensions to manage. 

Tim is the author of four bestselling leadership books, including The Power of Healthy Tension and Lead with AND. His keynotes are known for making complex leadership ideas remarkably accessible, helping organizations make better decisions, manage conflict, and build stronger teams.

When he’s not on stage, Tim is an avid fisherman, world traveller, and by his own admission, a really bad hockey player. His greatest accomplishments are being husband to Becky and dad to Declan and Avryl.