With nearly two dozen smash hits, multiple BMI songwriting awards, a Grammy for Best Country Song, as well as recently being a 2017 Nashville Songwriter Hall of Fame inductee, Tim Nichols has earned his place among Nashville's most elite and respected tunesmiths.
In 2004, Nichols co-wrote Tim McGraw's "Live Like You Were Dying," which stayed at #1 for ten consecutive weeks. In addition to breaking a 30 year record, "Live Like You Were Dying" won the Grammy award for Best Country Song in 2005. It also won the Song of the Year award from the Country Music Association, Academy of Country Music, BMI Country Awards, ASCAP Country Awards, Billboard and the Nashville Songwriters Association International. It is the only song to have won every major song award that is presented for country music.
Other Nichols’ hits helped launch the careers of Jo Dee Messina, (Heads Carolina, Tails California) and Broken Bow Records recording artist Dustin Lynch, (Cowboys and Angels) and Sony Music artist Chris Young stayed at the top of the charts for 3 weeks with the Nichol’s composition, “The Man I Want To Be.”
His most recent chart success was the #1 hit “She Had Me At Heads Carolina” by Cole Swinell, which stayed atop the country music charts for five consecutive weeks.
You may not recognize the name Tim Nichols, but people across America—and around the world—recognize and love his music.
The Grammy and CMA award-winning songwriter behind some of the biggest country hits of the last thirty years, Tim built his celebrated career writing for chart-topping artists like Tim McGraw, Reba McEntire Alan Jackson, Jo Dee Messina, and Keith Whitley.
In 2004, Tim co-wrote Tim McGraw’s smash hit “Live Like You Were Dying.” It is the only song to have won every major country award presented for songwriting. In 2017, Tim was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. He is also a New York Times best-selling author.
Today, Tim continues to write hits for some of country music’s biggest stars. A sought-after keynote speaker, Tim speaks to audiences about creativity, collaboration, and lessons learned from a life spent working with some of the most popular musical artists in the world.
Over his four-decade career as one of Nashville’s most respected songwriters, Tim Nichols has learned a crucial component must be in place before the creative process even begins: no mattter where you are, no matter who you’re there with, you need to believe that you belong in the room.
In this moving, eye-opening, and often hilarious keynote, Tim unveils his philosophy of what it takes for any team, anywhere, to transform their ideas and manifest their vision. You’ll discover what award-winning songwriters know about creativity, collaboration, and teamwork — and you’ll come away with a proven method for incorporating those lessons into your work and life.
Shaped over years of writing songs for some of the most popular musical artists, this paradigm-shifting speech will challenge you to reimagine what it takes to foster the perfect conditions for collaboration, co-creation, and teamwork.
