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About Erica
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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.
See keynotes with Erica DhawanWe 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.
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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.
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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.
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