Tim Kotnour is an executive advisor, educator, and author focused on helping leaders make strategy real. Drawing on 30+ years of experience across industry, government, and academia.
His work focuses on helping senior leaders translate strategic intent into measurable results.
His work blends clarity, alignment, and execution discipline with kindness, empathy, and a commitment to value creation.
He has partnered with organizations including NASA, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and Fortune 100 companies to lead strategic transformations, develop next-generation leaders, and drive large-scale innovation and operational performance. He founded and led the Engineering Leadership & Innovation Institute at the University of Central Florida and serves as CEO and Principal of a boutique executive advisory firm.
Grounded in kindness, empathy, and a customer-first mindset, his leadership philosophy emphasizes value creation, execution discipline, and continuous learning.
He is the author of 2 books, Conquering Chaos: How to Lead in a Time of Extraordinary Change and Inspiring the Leader Engineer: Instilling the Burning Desire and Confidence to Change the World. In addition to writing, they enjoy spending time on their other passions and interests. You can sign up to get updates about their writing here.
Tim Kotnour is an executive advisor, educator, and author focused on helping leaders make strategy real. Drawing on 30+ years of experience across industry, government, and academia.
His work focuses on helping senior leaders translate strategic intent into measurable results.
His work blends clarity, alignment, and execution discipline with kindness, empathy, and a commitment to value creation.
He has partnered with organizations including...
Books
Conquering Chaos: How to Lead in a Time of Extraordinary Change
Transformations are hard.
Especially when everything around you is on fire.
Your organization is in crisis. Pressure from your boss. Rumblings from stakeholders. Demands from stockholders. Disruptions in the marketplace. Deeply frustrated staff and workforce who need to be heard and respected. Who need their dignity. Who need your leadership....
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Inspiring the Leader Engineer: Instilling the Burning Desire and Confidence to Change the World
Creating the burning desire and confidence to deliver world-changing solutions.
We need to deliver world-changing solutions. We need Engineering Leaders to deliver these world-changing solutions. This is a story of how we built and are executing a program that impacts undergraduate students, graduate students, leaders, and their organizations....