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– Global Gurus
Speaking Topics
Leadership
GET BIG THINGS DONE: THE POWER OF CONNECTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
DESCRIPTION
Two teams have worked on the same problem for six months. Neither knows the other exists. That is what cross-team dysfunction, duplication, and delay actually cost you. And it isn’t a tools problem. Your people can find any document, any dataset, any answer in seconds. So why is collaboration still hard?
Because what moves work forward is human relationships across silos. The colleague who tried this years ago and watched it fail. The client relationship that makes a hard conversation possible. Tools retrieve everything your company recorded. They cannot reach what only your people know.
Erica Dhawan, author of Get Big Things Done, named this Connectional Intelligence. She shows leaders how to surface what no system captured, build trust fast across boundaries, and unlock the expertise of the whole enterprise.
Learning Outcomes
- Surface the tacit knowledge and relationship capital no AI system can retrieve
- Diagnose where collaboration stalls, and unstick it
- Break silos and keep teams aligned, accountable, and motivated
- Build trust across functions, geographies, and reporting lines without adding meetings
Teamwork
COLLABORATE FASTER AND FURTHER, TOGETHER
DESCRIPTION
Every message is now well-written. Warm opener. Clean structure. Thoughtful close. And you have no idea if the person read it, cared, or even wrote it. That’s the new trust problem.
The signals used to be sloppy but real. A rushed reply meant something. A typo at 11pm meant something. Effort was visible in the writing. Now polish is free.
Erica Dhawan, author of the WSJ bestseller Digital Body Language, decodes what actually signals care, credibility, and commitment. Specificity is the new sincerity. Response time is the new eye contact. The fastest way to rebuild trust is to be unmistakably human in a channel where everyone sounds like a machine. This keynote names the norms quietly eroding trust and leaves teams with shared rules for what gets automated, drafted, or written by a person.
Learning Outcomes
- Read the signals that still carry meaning, and stop trusting the ones AI made worthless
- Create cultures of maniacal clarity across email, phone, IM, text, video and even live meetings
- Rebuild credibility with clients and colleagues in channels flooded with perfect, forgettable communication
Artificial Intelligence
USE YOUR BRAIN: CRITICAL THINKING INTELLIGENCE
DESCRIPTION
Your people aren’t using AI. They’re agreeing with it. We stopped drafting and started approving. We stopped wrestling with ideas and started accepting summaries. It feels like productivity. It’s cognitive surrender, and it’s flattening originality, weakening recall, and producing decisions nobody can defend.
Erica Dhawan, author of Use Your Brain, argues that Critical Thinking Intelligence is to this decade what Emotional Intelligence was to the ’90s: the difference between leaders who compound and leaders who get automated.
This keynote is about running at full speed without outsourcing the thinking that makes your people worth paying for. Audiences leave with rituals for the next morning: the Think Sandwich, where human judgment opens and closes every AI-assisted task, and the Friction Meeting, where someone is assigned to argue the work is wrong.
Learning Outcomes
- Catch themselves and their teams on autopilot, and put real thinking back around the machine
- Pressure-test AI output, stop the slop, and decide what to automate, augment, and protect
- Own high-stakes decisions they can explain, defend, and recall
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Why Erica?
A presentation like you’ve never experienced. An Erica Dhawan Keynote is…
INFORMATIVE
My presentations include cutting-edge research, real-world examples, and dynamic visuals. I aim to create experiences that guide participants to their ‘aha’ moment.
INTERACTIVE
I encourage participation through high-energy, practical exercises that keep the crowd engaged and attentive. As a result, each participant leaves with new ways of thinking and actionable steps to implement in their daily lives.
CUSTOMIZED
I tailor my topics to the needs of your group, delivering stories and data that resonate with your industry. Along the way, I’m ready to respond to specific audience needs with an authentic, dynamic stage presence.
AND CREATES A LONG-TERM IMPACT
My goal is to give you practical insights that are still useful 3 months, 1 year, or 5 years from now.
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Our group was diverse and Erica was a hit with everyone!
Her storytelling style of presenting along with a healthy dose of informative case studies kept everyone engaged and interested
and excited about using connectional intelligence
to transform our business.