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Eric is widely noted for his thought leadership on collective leadership, navigating uncertainty, crisis, and change.
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Eric connects with audiences at live keynotes, virtual events, and workshops. Listeners leave with actionable insights, excited to take on challenges and make positive change within their organizations and communities. Here are some of his current speaking topics enjoyed by scores of audiences around the world.
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Unleashing the Power of Us: Building Communities of Leading
As organizations and communities face ever-more complex challenges, leading change needs a refresh.
Eric reveals how to tap into the power of humans’ natural collaborative, adaptive instincts by making sense, crafting meaning, opening space, and shaping place to enlist support and build momentum. Change becomes a collective undertaking where everyone sees the future and has the potential to contribute and grow.
What the audience will take away from this presentation:
- How to steward large teams towards meaningful success (and create an environment people will love to work in).
- How to transition from command-and-control to a service mindset that brings out the best in people, enhances engagement, and improves results.
- Innovative and inspiring, a recent client called this talk, “captivating and moving, and a huge hit.”
- You’ll also learn to see individual performance in a new light, one that unlocks potential across your team and organization.
Leading Through Crisis and Change
Navigating turbulence and adapting to fast-evolving conditions are the new core competencies for leaders. It’s impossible to prepare for every contingency. Yet there are essential skills and techniques you can learn to face high-stakes moments with confidence.
Effective crisis leaders build islands of certainty around core values and principles that restore calm and foster resilience amidst the chaos. This enables quick action, even amidst great uncertainty. Eric shows you how to lead through even the most turbulent situations so you, too, can confidently take the reins in any challenge.
What the audience will take away from this presentation:
- The core dimensions of the powerful meta-leadership framework and practice method that empower you to lead more intentionally and confidently.
- How to establish a culture of trust and accountability that focus and ground both small teams and large, no matter the challenge.
- Sometimes crises emerge from our organization’s own actions, and sometimes they’re an unexpected shock. Learn how to prepare for multiple futures, both foreseeable and difficult to discern—so you’re ready to nimbly address whatever reality unfolds.
Getting “Smarter Than Your Brain”
Eric uses accessible insights from neuroscience and psychology to help leaders understand how to optimize their performance and that of their teams.
He reveals how three core features of the human brain drive our behavior, decisions, and actions. It is knowledge that enables people to work with, rather than against, their innate instincts and capabilities. Participants leave better understanding themselves and how to work with the amazing capacity of their brains while avoiding common pitfalls.
What the audience will take away from this presentation:
- How to navigate the instinctual, rapid response, and intellectual neural networks for overcome uncertainty and adversity.
- Understanding the brain’s orientation toward energy efficiency underpins biases and other thinking errors.
- How to rejuvenate thinking capacity amidst information overload.
Leading with AI for the Deeply Social Future of Work
While the bells-and-whistles of the latest technology get the most attention, people will continue to want to work together. We are a social species with instinctual urges to collaborate. The future of work will call people to team up to tackle ever-more complex problems with greater urgency—augmented with AI, not replaced by it. That means a transition from organizations build for stability and predictability to structures optimized for fluidity and adaptive capacity. Leading such organizations will require the ability to sense-and-respond rapidly amidst ambiguity and unpredictability.
What the audience will take away from this presentation:
- An appreciation of how to leverage the dynamics of complex adaptive systems to achieve positive outcomes.
- How to foster high accountability while empowering distributed leadership and decision-making.
- Powerful ways to use values, purpose, and trust to counter volatility, uncertainty, and ambiguity.
- Learn how to integrate AI and other technologies in ways that bolster human performance.
In-depth Workshops for Transformational Change
Bring Eric to your strategic off-site, leadership training, or other meeting to get your people thinking and ready for change. In addition to his keynote topics, Eric has a proprietary approach to future-casting that helps executive teams look over the horizon to find fresh insights and opportunities while overcoming blind spots. He also offers workshops on negotiation, conflict resolution, and making critical decisions.
The workshop format brings your participants:
- Active-learning techniques that engage adult learners.
- Expert facilitation that ensures that all voices are heard.
- Focus on your critical issues and distinct culture.
- A safe environment for imaginative thinking and bold experimentation.