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Erica Dhawan

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Growth and innovation speaker and one of the Top 20 Motivational Speakers listed by GlobalGurus in 2022.

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Speaker Erica Dhawan is a leading authority on topics surrounding company advancement, including collaboration and innovation. Erica was named “Oprah of Management Thinkers” and ranked #1 of Top Women Keynote Speakers of 2020. She continues to advance organizations through her collaborative and informative keynotes. In 2022 she wa yet again named one of the Top 20 Motivational Speakers list by GlobalGurus.

 

Why you should book speaker Erica Dhawan

  • Speaker Erica Dhawan uses the power of storytelling and a good sense of humor paired with research findings to provide her audience with interactive, refreshing, and hands-on strategies.
  • She was rated number one on the Top Women Keynote Speakers of 2020 and featured as one of the management thinkers most likely to shape the future of business.
  • She has studied human innovation and collaboration for over fifteen years and has written two books on collaboration, communication, and teamwork.

 

Speaker Erica Dhawan is a leading authority on collaboration, teamwork, and innovation, a bestselling author, named “Oprah of Management Thinkers” and ranked #1 of Top Women Keynote Speakers of 2020.

She is an internationally acclaimed leading authority, author, and advisor on 21st-century teamwork, collaboration, and innovation. She is also the author of two books, Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence and Digital Body Language (published in 2021).

Erica Dhawan shares innovative strategies to inspire teams’ collective power and energy, build a culture of trust across distance, and create authentic engagement to ensure competitiveness.

Dhawan frequently appears in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Fast Company.

She addressed global leaders at the World Economic Forum, getting interviewed by Good Morning America host Robin Roberts, becoming a “sought-after” keynote speaker by CEOs and top executives, and teaching twenty-first-century collaboration skills to thousands of leaders across a range of industries, companies, and countries as well.

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Keynote by speaker Erica Dhawan

Maniacal Clarity: Reimagine Leadership to Drive Impactful Innovation

We used to think of leadership as constant hustle and grit – the leader that never slept, sent profits through the roof, and embodied the classic rags-to-riches story… But this tired playbook doesn’t seem to work as well as it once did. What changed?  What makes a 21st century leader and a great team now? Is it their ability to tell stories? Their decision-making skills? Their communication style?

The critical missing factor is Maniacal Clarity. This is when leaders give their teams exactly what they need to do their absolute best work and enable them to be empowered to influence anyone, anytime, anywhere. Without it, even skilled, motivated and effective teams languish, with cross-team dysfunction, duplicative work, and unhealthy internal competition. Maniacal Clarity in our modern world delivers the ability to spark overarching optimism, inspirational imagination, continuous courage and fast focus.

In her new keynote, WSJ bestselling author and world-renowned speaker Erica Dhawan constructs a new framework for truly shifting minds and changing hearts, in the office, across any distance and with customers. Based on years of research and advising the respected companies around the world, this keynote promises a ground-breaking look into the science, frameworks, and stories of how to inspire anyone, anytime, anywhere to deliver their best results.

Key outcomes include:

  • Conduct your own clarity audit of your workplace and assess your own Maniacal Clarity habits.
  • Learn the 4 foundations of Maniacal Clarity and how to bring it to everyone around you with optimism, imagination, courage and focus.
  • Assess your strengths and opportunities to become a Maniacal Clarity change agent.
  • Develop an action plan to inspire your teams, customers, and the world around you to drive performance, teamwork and innovation.
Keynote by speaker Erica Dhawan

Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence

We live in a world of endless meetings, emails, and constant cross-team dysfunction, duplication and delays. Our collaboration skills aren’t always working to unlock better value in our business.

As radical a concept as Emotional Intelligence was in the 90s, Connectional Intelligence is turning people into superconnectors who accelerate innovation, break down silos and foster breakthrough bottom line impact by harnessing the power of networks.

Audience takeaways:

  • Learn successful tactics to address communication overload and foster authentic, innovation-driving relationships
  • Discover tools to break down silos and keep teams aligned, accountable, and motivated both in-person and online
  • Gain specific actions to foster loyalty, respect, collaboration, and innovation across stakeholder networks, regardless of physical distance
Keynote by speaker Erica Dhawan

Digital Body Language: Collaborate Faster and Further, Together

Humans rely on body language to connect and build trust, but with most of our communication happening from behind a screen, traditional body language signals are no longer visible – or are they? In her keynote, Erica combines cutting edge research with engaging storytelling to decode the new signals and cues that have replaced traditional body language.

In person, we lean in, uncross our arms, smile, nod and make eye contact to show we listen and care. Online, reading carefully is the new listening. Writing clearly is the new empathy. And a phone or video call is worth a thousand emails.

In this keynote, Erica will supercharge your teams with collectively understood rules that foster connection, build trust and drive innovation.

Audience takeaways:

  • Understand your collaboration style and the digital body language signals you may be broadcasting (even if you don’t intend to!)
  • Create cultures of maniacal clarity across email, phone, IM, text, video and even live meetings
  • Develop a collaboration strategy that fosters valuable relationships, both in-person and online
  • End cultures of useless meetings, missed deadlines, and digital misunderstandings
Keynote by speaker Erica Dhawan

Concrete Empathy: A Playbook for Leading Modern Teams to Innovation

We live in a culture defined by a distinct empathy deficit: The boss who expresses displeasure without giving valuable feedback. The mansplaining colleague who has no interest in the opinions of others. The team member who spends most of the meeting texting and answering emails.
Why is empathy today at such a low point? Fewer face-to-face interactions, an ever-accelerating pace of change, and an increasing number of matrixed teams working remotely.

In this keynote, attendees will learn practical ways to activate Concrete Empathy to create cultures of psychological safety, employee engagement, wellbeing and innovation.

Audience takeaways:

  • Discover simple ways to signal understanding and empathy across difference and distance
  • Learn rules of thumb to avoid misunderstanding, ambiguity, and conflict
  • Gain tools to foster innovation and create lasting relationships both within your organization and with clients, customers and other key stakeholders
Keynote by speaker Erica Dhawan

Hybrid Work Management

  • Learn the critical elements of becoming a great hybrid work manager
  • Use modern communication strategies to decode digital signals, build trust and unlock the value of your teams using the 4 pillars of hybrid work
  • Understand the 10 key questions for defining success in a hybrid team with the Hybrid Team Agreement
  • Sustain hybrid team performance across team spirit, meeting culture, digital communication and collaboration tools
  • Develop best practices for hybrid team skills from onboarding to career development and managing upward
Keynote by speaker Erica Dhawan

Maniacal Clarity: Reimagine Leadership to Drive Impactful Innovation

We used to think of leadership as constant hustle and grit – the leader that never slept, sent profits through the roof, and embodied the classic rags-to-riches story… But this tired playbook doesn’t seem to work as well as it once did. What changed?  What makes a 21st century leader and a great team now? Is it their ability to tell stories? Their decision-making skills? Their communication style?

The critical missing factor is Maniacal Clarity. This is when leaders give their teams exactly what they need to do their absolute best work and enable them to be empowered to influence anyone, anytime, anywhere. Without it, even skilled, motivated and effective teams languish, with cross-team dysfunction, duplicative work, and unhealthy internal competition. Maniacal Clarity in our modern world delivers the ability to spark overarching optimism, inspirational imagination, continuous courage and fast focus.

In her new keynote, WSJ bestselling author and world-renowned speaker Erica Dhawan constructs a new framework for truly shifting minds and changing hearts, in the office, across any distance and with customers. Based on years of research and advising the respected companies around the world, this keynote promises a ground-breaking look into the science, frameworks, and stories of how to inspire anyone, anytime, anywhere to deliver their best results.

Key outcomes include:

  • Conduct your own clarity audit of your workplace and assess your own Maniacal Clarity habits
  • Learn the 4 foundations of Maniacal Clarity and how to bring it to everyone around you with optimism, imagination, courage and focus
  • Assess your strengths and opportunities to become a Maniacal Clarity change agent
  • Develop an action plan to inspire your teams, customers, and the world around you to drive performance, teamwork and innovation

     

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So many of us saw ourselves in the vignettes that you shared both in terms of what we are doing well and areas that we need to develop. We appreciate that your tips were very practical and easily implementable. Incredibly good takeaways!

Georgine, World Bank

World Bank

WOW, what an incredible message you delivered today! I was getting feedback during the event from so many attendees saying how relevant and relatable your content was

Sandy, CDWG

CDWG

Erica was even more impressive, relatable and engaging in person, I really enjoyed the session and Erica has a unique way of making you feel in a group she is speaking directly to you

Taeko, Sony

SONY

So many of us saw ourselves in the vignettes that you shared both in terms of what we are doing well and areas that we need to develop. We appreciate that your tips were very practical and easily implementable. Incredibly good takeaways!

Georgine

World Bank

WOW, what an incredible message you delivered today! I was getting feedback during the event from so many attendees saying how relevant and relatable your content was

Sandy

CDWG

Erica was even more impressive, relatable and engaging in person, I really enjoyed the session and Erica has a unique way of making you feel in a group she is speaking directly to you.

Taeko

Sony
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