Two decades of building, breaking, and rebuilding agencies, distilled into keynotes, panels, and podcast appearances your audience actually remembers on Monday.
Whatever your audience is wrestling with (growth marketing, founder anxiety, the AI freakout), my job on stage is to inform, entertain, and tell the truth.
“There is no right way to build an agency. But there are a thousand wrong ones. I’ve tried most of them, and that’s exactly why audiences trust me.”
— Tim Kilroy
Everything I talk about on stage, I've done myself. I know the wins, the wreckage, and the payroll weeks that almost ended me. Audiences feel the difference between someone reading a slide and someone who lived it.
2 exits, 1 spectacular crash. All of them taught me something your audience needs to hear.
Helped agency owners scale from scraping by to six-figure months with systems, not luck.
Found ad spend pouring into dead channels, senior hours lost to broken process, and teams duplicating work nobody assigned.
How to diagnose what's really broken in your agency, then fix it without burning everything down. The framework behind 300+ agency transformations.
Building sales systems that don't feel sleazy. Why founder-led sales breaks at scale, what to build instead, and how to stop being the only person in the agency who can close.
Why agency founders need to get uncomfortable to grow. The hard conversations, the hard decisions, and the leadership shifts that separate $500K agencies from $5M ones.
Positioning done well via the VVV framework (Vibes, Vision, Values). Most agencies sound identical because they sanded off everything interesting about themselves. How to put the weird back in, build positioning your competitors can't copy, and get chosen before the sales call even starts.
“Travelling from Boston to Sydney, Australia, Tim presented a highly informative, polished keynote with bulletproof takeaways.”
— Event Organizer, Online Retailer
“Tim has a fantastic presentation style — affability mixed with detailed insights, practical advice and smart content structure.”
— Conference Organizer
“I'd recommend Tim as a speaker on all things digital marketing. He manages to share the know-how while keeping you connected & entertained.”
— Event Director
Asia-Pacific's largest e-commerce event, held in Sydney, Australia.
Engaged an audience of 4,000+
One of the premier digital commerce conferences, held in Chicago.
4× invited back to talk agency growth, sales systems, and marketing strategy.
30+ appearances across shows on agency operations, founder sales, and digital marketing
Panels and workshops on digital marketing, e-commerce, and agency growth
Every talk is customized to your audience. No canned keynotes. We'll co-build the content so it speaks to the room you actually have.
I don't lecture. I run the room. Q&A, live examples, and real conversations with the crowd.
You get high-res headshots, bio copy, session descriptions, and social assets, all delivered before you need them.
I'll actively promote the event to my audience across LinkedIn, email, and social. Filling seats is part of the deal.
Keynotes, panels, podcasts, and workshops are all on the table. Tell me what your audience needs to hear and we'll build the talk together.
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