Global Voice for a New Time Culture
Founder of the I Have Time™ Method
We live in a world that can do almost everything faster.
We communicate instantly. We work from almost anywhere. We can respond within seconds.
But somewhere along the way, speed has become more than a possibility.
It has become an expectation.
And when everything moves quickly, an important question can easily disappear:
Does this actually need to happen now?
My talks explore what time pressure, permanent responsiveness and a culture of urgency are changing in our lives and organizations—and what becomes possible when we recover the ability to choose our pace.
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Sandrine Kom speaks to leaders, teams and international audiences about time pressure, urgency culture, responsiveness, decision quality and the pace of contemporary life.
Her keynotes, interactive talks and executive conversations invite audiences to examine a familiar but rarely questioned condition:
When speed becomes expected, what happens to the quality of the time in which we think, decide and work together?
Speaking engagements can be adapted to leadership meetings, company events, conferences, international audiences and different organizational contexts.
Available speaking formats
Keynotes: 45–60 minutes
Interactive talks and conferences: 60–90 minutes
Executive conversations: smaller-format discussions for leadership teams and decision-makers
Panels and moderated conversations
Speaking is available in English, French, Italian and German.
Signature Keynote
What if the future isn’t about going faster, but about knowing when to?
For decades, technology has promised to save us time.
It has succeeded in making almost everything faster. But our ability to do more in less time has not necessarily made us feel that we have more of it.
This keynote explores one of the paradoxes of contemporary life: the more speed becomes possible, the more easily urgency becomes normal.
What happens to attention when we are continuously reachable? What happens inside organizations when every request arrives with an expectation of speed? What happens to decision-making when responding quickly becomes more valued than knowing when more time is needed?
The New Time Culture™ proposes a different way of thinking about speed.
he question is not whether fast or slow is better.
The question is:
What pace does this situation actually require?°
Audiences leave with a new lens through which to recognize time pressure, question automatic urgency and think differently about speed, responsiveness and the quality of their decisions.
Additional speaking topics
The Real Cost of Urgency
Urgency is essential when something is genuinely urgent.
The difficulty begins when it becomes the default.
This talk explores what happens when everything is treated as a priority: fragmented attention, reactive decisions, unclear expectations, repeated work and pressure that travels from one person to another.
It invites teams and leaders to examine a deceptively simple question:
What is actually urgent here?
Decision Quality Under Pressure
Some decisions genuinely need to be made quickly.
Others become poorer because we make them quickly.
This talk examines the relationship between time pressure and decision-making: how urgency influences what we notice, what we overlook, the questions we ask and how quickly we commit to a course of action. The objective is not slower decision-making.
It is better judgment about when speed helps a decision, and when it compromises it.
When Everything Feels Urgent
Why do we so often feel that there isn’t enough time, even when there is no actual emergency?
This talk brings the questions behind I Have Time™ into everyday life.
It explores the pressure to respond, keep up and remain available—and the feeling that everything requires our attention now.
The question is not how to fit more into the day.
It is how to recognize what really needs us now, what can wait, and when we are moving quickly simply because we have become accustomed to doing so.
Digital Detox
What Disconnection Reveals About Our Culture of Time
What happens when you become unreachable for 30 hours every week?
Since 2023, my weekly Digital Detox has become a long-term experiment in attention, availability and our experience of time.
This talk goes beyond advice about reducing screen time. It explores what disconnection can reveal about a culture in which being reachable has become normal, waiting has become uncomfortable and almost every empty moment can be filled.
Digital Detox becomes a lens through which to ask a much larger question:
What has permanent connection changed in us?
From personal experience to a larger inquiry
The ideas I bring to the stage did not begin as a theory.
They developed through years of questioning speed, my long-term Digital Detox practice, work with individuals and organizations, and the research behind The New Time Culture.
Today, my international conversations with CEOs, founders, entrepreneurs and senior leaders add another dimension to that inquiry: how people across different countries, industries and forms of responsibility experience time, pressure, urgency and the demands of contemporary life.
These different perspectives continue to shape both The New Time Culture™ and the practical work of the I Have Time™ Method.