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.
The agencies I've coached added it up. Systems did that, not luck and not a hack I sold them.
I've been inside enough agencies to know what your room is actually wrestling with before I get there.
Most owners spend a year fixing the thing that wasn't broken. The WTF Agency Method is how you find what's actually killing you, then fix it without torching the parts that work. It's the framework behind 350+ agency turnarounds.
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.
The conversation you've been postponing for eight months is the one your agency is waiting on. This is about the decisions founders defer, the people they won't confront, and the discomfort that separates a $500K agency from a $5M one.
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.
Thank F*cking Goodness.
AI made scale free. Research, outreach, and looking every bit as polished as your biggest competitor all cost nothing now. The only thing left to compete on is how deeply you understand the humans across the table. Built around the $1.5M-a-month pitch I lost after winning on every criterion anyone said out loud.
The Completely Made Up & Unmeasurable Metric That Is Essential To Business Growth
Every agency tracks ROAS, ROI, and CAC. Nobody tracks whether they actually understand the client. Understanding is what wins the pitch, holds the account through a terrible quarter, and grows the relationship for years. You'll never get it on a dashboard, and it still beats every number you can. More on Return on Understanding →
The words are “Never mind, I'll do it.” Say them often enough and you've bought yourself a job and sold off a business. This is the delegation talk for founders who already know they're the bottleneck and keep doing it anyway.
Booking a speaker off a bio is a gamble. Here's 40 minutes on a real stage and a couple of long-form conversations, so you know exactly what walks into your event.
“Tim, seriously, I want to thank you so much for everything that you've done today. This was seriously the best podcast I've ever done in my entire life.”
Adam O'LearyScale With Partners →
“Travelling from Boston to Sydney, Australia, Tim presented a highly informative, polished keynote with bulletproof takeaways.”
Grant ArnottChair, Online Retailer Conference & Power Retail
“Blazingly smart and funny AF.”
Matthew HuntDemandii
“A diagnostic genius with real wisdom.”
Bostjan BelingarHustler Marketing
“A gem.”
Greg ShankenGlosstech
“Like getting tough love from your funny uncle.”
Agency ownersRepeatedly, and to my face
“Adorable”
My mom
“A real pleasure to have in class”
Every elementary school teacher I ever had
“That guy who never went to class”
All of my college professors
“AI Can't Close Sales: Thank F*cking Goodness”, on why being human is how agencies win. Watch →
“The New Agency Model”, on the shift agencies are f*cked without. Watch →
“Perfect Positioning for Your Agency”, hosted by Mike Alton.
Asia-Pacific's largest e-commerce event, held in Sydney, Australia.
“AARRR: The Pirate Funnel as Your Map to Growth”, to an audience of 4,000+. Watch →
One of the premier digital commerce conferences, held in Chicago.
“Happy Clients Aren't Your Job”, on why service and outcomes are different products. Watch →
Every one of these is a real conversation you can go listen to right now. If you want to hear how I handle a host who pushes back, pick any of them.
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.
Your audience didn't show up to watch me sell. They get the real framework and the real numbers, and my pricing never makes it onto a slide. You'll never have to apologize to your attendees for how I used their time.
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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