Tim Hickle

Keynotes & workshops · Indianapolis

Ambitious GTM Leadership in the AI Era

Tim Hickle is Co-Founder and Head of GTM at Lemhi, an operator who has spent ~15 years leading marketing and go-to-market for startups. He speaks to AI-enabled GTM leaders on leading humans through AI-era org design, creating market narrative (not just labels), and the personal cost of ambition.

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  • Co-Founder, Head of GTM · Lemhi
  • Leadership roles · Greenlight Guru, Springbuk
  • Based in Indianapolis
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Operator first

Built in the work. Speaks from the weeds.

Tim is a non-CEO co-founder of Lemhi, where he runs go-to-market. Lemhi is an Indianapolis AI Transformation-as-a-Service company helping MSPs sell and deliver AI as a managed service. Before founding Lemhi in 2026, he spent roughly fifteen years leading marketing and go-to-market for other people’s startups, including leadership roles at Greenlight Guru and Springbuk, then several years of fractional leadership and co-founder dating.

His lane is ambitious GTM leadership when AI rewrites the org chart and the market narrative. Rooms that book him want operators who have run the play, not theorists who researched it.

Available for keynotes and workshops.

Signature tracks

What the room walks away with

Three signature tracks. Each runs as a keynote or a hands-on workshop, shaped to your audience.

Track 1 · Keynote & workshop

Leading Humans in the AI Age

How AI Broke Your Org Chart and What to Do About It

Replacing humans with AI is stupid. Ignoring AI to “protect” humans is stupid. Use AI plus intentional org design so people thrive.

  • Aptitude-style exercises for AI-era roles
  • Team rollout playbook leaders can run next week
  • Org transformation framing that keeps humans central

Best for: GTM, marketing, and revenue leaders redesigning teams around AI.

Track 2 · Keynote & workshop

Category Creation in the AI Era

Narrative over labels

Creating a new label for your product is a fool’s errand. Create a new narrative for your market, especially when AI discovery reshapes how buyers find you.

  • Define the narrative before you chase the category name
  • Shape market language that AI search and humans both cite
  • Brand and demand playbook: narrative → market → demand

Best for: Founders and GTM leaders bringing AI-era products and services to market.

Track 3 · Keynote & workshop

Critical Vulnerabilities

The Life You Lead and the Characters You Meet Trying Not to Blow It

Ambition will break you. What happens next is up to you.

  • Home operating system
  • Goal-setting framework
  • Time-boxed commitments

Best for: Leadership teams and founders navigating the personal cost of ambition.

Proof

Named work. Named people.

The operating record behind the talks.

  • Co-Founder & Head of GTM, Lemhi (Indianapolis)
  • Prior leadership: Greenlight Guru, Springbuk (plus an earlier startup GTM path including PERQ, MilesHerndon, and Woven)
  • Category and narrative work across companies including Outfit Formulas, Detect Auto, Greenlight Guru, and Glasshouse
  • Author of The Future-Proof Marketing Playbook; writes on the future of work at The Parasocial Worker
  • Frequent conference speaker and podcast guest; hosted livestream coverage of landmark builder events, including the first-ever in-person vibe-coding competition

“Tim was wonderful to work with. He really helped us better understand our numbers so we could run a data-driven marketing operation. Tim’s work led to tremendous growth for our organization.”

Alison Lumbatis, CEO, Outfit Formulas

“Tim is excellent to work with. I've partnered with him on projects for multiple portfolio companies and respect his expertise.”

Nick Likens, CEO, Crosstown Ventures

Working together

Simple booking process

  1. Inquiry Share budget range, date, audience size, and location.
  2. Discovery Short call to fit the talk to your room, not a canned deck.
  3. Customize Keynote or workshop shaped to your audience and outcomes.
  4. Show up Deliver, then leave the team with something they can run.

Speaking inquiry

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Tell Tim about your event. Budget, date, audience size, and location help him reply quickly with fit and availability.

Prefer email? Write to timhickle@gmail.com with the subject “Speaking inquiry”.

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