Tim started Mightybytes in early 1998 to help nonprofits, social enterprises, and purpose-driven companies solve problems, amplify their impact, build capacity, and drive measurable business and marketing results.

Speaking & Facilitation

A seasoned speaker, Tim keynotes conferences and facilitates workshops around the world. He presents on sustainable design, impact assessment, and corporate digital responsibility for organizations like Adobe, Block (formerly Square), Capital One, Northwestern University, Google, Sustainable Brands, and others.

Also, Tim is a Certified Sustainability Designer through Gaia Education, a United Nations global education partner, where he co-facilitated their course on Economic Design. The course is part of the Design for Sustainability program, which helps students learn regenerative design and inclusive economic practices.

Writing & Education

Tim has written four books, which have been translated into multiple languages and are used at educational institutions around the world:

• Designing for Sustainability: A Guide to Building Greener Digital Products and Services from O’Reilly Media
• Two editions of Return on Engagement: Content Strategy and Web Design Techniques for Digital Marketing from Elsevier/Focal Press
• Managing Interactive Media Projects, an academic project management guide from Cengage Learning

In addition to authoring books, Tim has written for dozens of well-known publications, blogs, and media outlets. He recently contributed to the following projects:

• Co-chair and editor of the Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSGs) produced by the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Sustainable Web Design community group.
• The first-ever sustainability chapter of the HTTP Archive’s annual Web Almanac, a comprehensive report on the state of the web
• A chapter in the Ecomm Manager’s Sustainable Ecommerce Handbook

Tim is also a regular contributor to B the Change, the storytelling platform for the global B Corp community. 

Community Organizing

Passionate about using the collective power of community to solve problems, Tim leads or participates in a variety of communities whose purpose is to drive meaningful change.

In 2013, Tim started a Sustainable Web Design community group at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). In 2023, this group introduced the Web Sustainability Guidelines to help organizations incorporate sustainability principles into the creation and management of digital products and services.

Tim has also co-founded and/or led several B Corp-related networks:

• B Local Illinois
• The B Corp Marketers Network
• The B Proud Network

Finally, Tim is currently Board Treasurer at the Alliance for the Great Lakes and former Board President for Climate Ride.