As a recognized leadership thought leader, author, and educator, Eric works with disruptive leaders and organizations who refuse to accept that the world’s toughest challenges are someone else’s job. They aren’t waiting for change, they’re building it.
Eric brings pragmatic expertise and contagious passion to every project and presentation. He shares compelling stories and practical frameworks to unlock collective potential—the Power of Everyone—in your organization.











In engaging presentations, Eric shares riveting stories and proven techniques that unleash the power of leading together with hope, confidence, and agency.
Humans are made to work together—we are a social species. Yet organizations blunt the benefits of these natural collaborative instincts by overemphasizing individual competition. In this keynote, Eric leads the audience through how to reset their default thinking to better understand when to compete and when to cooperate to achieve optimal outcomes.
There are no greater challenges facing leaders than those of navigating turbulence and adversity. Drawing on 20 years of research and decades of practical experience, Eric helps the audience gain the courage and confidence to lead when it matters most. This keynote is an inspiring journey through practical steps to be at one’s best when circumstances are at their worst.
In a highly accessible and engaging keynote, Eric takes the audience through how the structure and function of their brains affects their behaviors, decisions, and actions. With this knowledge, individuals can make more intentional choices that make the best use of their cognitive abilities while avoiding common missteps.
Leaders and their organizations struggle to adapt to AI and other new technologies and models of work. In this eye-opening keynote, Eric charts a hopeful course toward a future where people are at their best and contributing to the greatest extent of their abilities. He describes the choices leaders face—and how they can use them to foster trust and build communities and organizations ready for a fast-evolving future.
As a speaker, educator, and author, Eric draws on his curiosity and breadth of experience to engage with your audience. He is a wide-ranging thinker and natural storyteller. Eric builds from one subject to the next, finding the connections, often unseen, between various areas of study and practice. He helps people see the world, and their potential in it, more expansively.
Eric shares his research, thinking and experience in these must-read books for the leaders of today and tomorrow