Tim Calkins

Clinical Professor of Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Tim Calkins is an award-winning marketing professor, author, speaker, and consultant, who currently serves as the Associate Chair of Marketing and as a Clinical Professor of Marketing for Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Calkins’ latest book, How to Wash a Chicken – Mastering the Business Presentation, was named Top Business Book by the IndieReader Discovery Awards and received the Gold Prize for Business and Economics from the Foreword Indie Book of the Year Awards.

Calkins has also received numerous awards for his teaching. In 2006 and 2013 he won the Lawrence G. Lavengood Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, the Kellogg School’s top teaching award, making him one of just six people to have received the honor twice in the award’s more than 40-year history. Calkins was named a finalist for the award again in 2022 and 2023.

In addition to teaching at Kellogg, Calkins works with major corporations on strategy and branding issues. His recent clients include Moderna, Eli Lilly, Caterpillar, and AbbVie. He graduated from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts degree and earned an MBA from Harvard. He currently lives in Chicago with his wife and three children.