Keynotes
On governance, AI, and revenue.
Tim accepts a small number of speaking engagements each year, typically for boards, executive teams, and member organizations. Topics below are the ones audiences have found most useful; each is adapted to the audience and the question at hand.
Past stages
- YPO International
- Entrepreneur
- USAID, Vietnam
- ASEAN Rural Connectivity Conference
- Spartan Up
Four recurring engagements.
How boards activate prior crisis experience as strategic capital during organizational stress. Drawn from doctoral research and recent operating engagements.
Boards · CEOs · YPO chapters · executive teams
A short reading of the method. Board, human, and network capital as separate constructs, and what becomes possible when they are diagnosed and re-allocated together.
CEOs · COOs · revenue leaders · private-equity partners
On rebuilding go-to-market for the AI era while preserving relationship-driven selling. Practical observations from current operating work.
Sales leaders · CMOs · growth teams
Frameworks for scaling across markets, cultures, and verticals. Drawn from Asia-Pacific managing-director experience and current operating role as COO of First Resonance.
Executive teams · founders · advisory boards
01.1
Crisis leadership & board governance
01.2
The Capital-to-Revenue Multiplier
01.3
AI-driven revenue architecture
01.4
Go-to-market transformation
How engagements are structured.
Boardroom briefing
30–45 minutes. Private. One topic, one question.
Keynote
45–60 minutes. Conference or member-organization setting.
Executive workshop
Half- or full-day. Diagnostic work with the leadership team.
Panel & moderated
As participant or moderator. Topic-led, time-flexible.
From the room.
Selected keynotes and appearances.
Member forum · YPO
Discussion with chief executives on the operating reality of AI adoption. Treats AI as a category of capital that requires board, human, and process readiness before it produces measured outcomes.
Convening · USAID, Vietnam
Address by Dr. Timothy H. Gentry on public-private partnerships in Vietnam. Focuses on how PPPs expand human and social capital, and the conditions under which that capital becomes sustainable revenue.
Conference panel · private equity (host on file)
Closed-door panel at a private equity conference. Dr. Timothy H. Gentry on how AI is reshaping go-to-market motion, where sales-led, product-led, and AI-led models fit, and what each requires of the portfolio company operating model.
Podcast · webcast
Conversation with the Spartan founder on operating leadership, recovery, and how firms convert experience into outcomes.
04.1
YPO · AI adoption and the capital activation of AI
04.2
USAID, Vietnam · Capital activation in public-private partnerships
04.3
Private equity conference · AI and go-to-market in the current cycle
04.4
Spartan Up · with Joe De Sena
Note
Speaking inquiries: please use the contact page and note the date, audience, and topic.