Tim Leberecht is an author, curator, and entrepreneur, and the co-founder and co-CEO of the House of Beautiful Business, the global network for the life-centered economy. Previously, Tim served as the chief marketing officer of NBBJ, a global design and architecture firm. From 2006 to 2013, he was the chief marketing officer of product design and innovation consultancy Frog Design.

He has spoken at numerous conferences worldwide including AI Masters, DLD, HSM Expo, New Cities Summit, Online Marketing Rockstars, Re:publica, SXSW, The Conference, The Economist Big Rethink, The Next Web, Unleash, Thinking Digital, WOBI, and the World Economic Forum. His TED Talks “3 Ways to (Usefully) Lose Control of Your Brand” and “4 Ways to Build a Human Company in the Age of Machines” have been viewed more than 3 million times to date.

Moreover, Tim delivered keynotes and workshops for many leading global brands, including high-profile senior executive forums for Adobe, Airbus, BCG, Cap Gemini, Daimler, Deloitte, Galp, Google, IBM, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Merck, Porsche, SAP, Siemens, SkyUPS, and many others.

Tim served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Values from 2013 to 2016. He is a BMW Foundation Responsible Leader.

He is the author of the book The Business Romantic (Harper Business, 2015), which has been translated into ten languages to date, and The End of Winning (Droemer, 2020). He is currently working on a new book about curation. His writing regularly appears in publications such as Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Forbes, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, Inc, Psychology Today, Quartz, and Wired. He is the co-publisher of the Book of Beautiful Business (2019), and the co-host of the Next Visions podcast with Porsche as well as the Tangier Memos podcast.