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Unlock Collaboration at Scale to Accelerate Innovation in a Digital-First World
When leaders want to break team silos, drive exponential growth, and innovate through teamwork, they call Erica Dhawan.
Erica is an internationally recognized authority, bestselling author, and advisor on 21st century teamwork, collaboration, and innovation. Named by Thinkers50 as the “Oprah of Management Thinkers,” she is the author of three books: Use Your Brain, Digital Body Language, and Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence.
The world of business is increasingly digital, and work practices have changed at a blistering rate. Erica shares innovative strategies to unlock the collective power of teams, build a culture of trust across any distance, and create authentic engagement that keeps organizations competitive and original in the age of AI. Rated #1 on the Top Women Keynote Speakers list and featured among the top 50 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of business, Erica appears frequently in Harvard Business Review, New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. She pairs storytelling and humor with research to give audiences interactive, refreshing, practical strategies for modern, innovation-driving teamwork.
She holds degrees from Harvard, MIT, and Wharton.
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Why Organisations Book
- She names the real problem. When teams are stuck, siloed, or burning out on meetings, Erica diagnoses the hidden human cost and gives leaders concrete tools to fix it.
- Digital Body Language. In a world where every message sounds AI-generated, Erica teaches leaders how to signal trust, credibility, and care in the channels where it actually matters.
- AI & Critical Thinking. Her Use Your Brain framework helps organizations stop agreeing with the machine and start outthinking it, before cognitive surrender becomes a competitive liability.
- Collaboration & Breaking Silos. Through her signature concept, Connectional Intelligence, she shows teams how to unlock the relationship capital no tool can retrieve, across functions, geographies, and reporting lines.
- Leadership & Communication in the Age of AI. She equips leaders to make high-stakes decisions they can explain, defend, and stand behind, not just approve.
- Future of Work & Innovation. Her research spans the most urgent forces reshaping how we work, from hybrid norms to automation anxiety, translated into strategies teams can use the next morning.
- She delivers. From Google and the World Economic Forum to the Miami Heat and the U.S. Army, Erica consistently earns the rarest review: “Immediately actionable.“
Audience Takeaways
- Break silos without adding meetings. Walk away with a clear map of where collaboration stalls in your organization and exactly how to unstick it.
- Put human judgment back in the driver’s seat. Learn the Think Sandwich: a simple ritual that keeps original thinking at the center of every AI-assisted task.
- Read the signals that still matter. Decode what actually communicates trust and credibility in digital channels and stop relying on the signals AI made meaningless.
- Surface what no system can capture. Identify the tacit knowledge and relationship capital that lives only in your people and learn how to unlock it before it walks out the door.
- Stop AI slop before it spreads. Apply a practical Decision Filter for what to automate, what to augment, and what must stay non-negotiably human.
- Rebuild trust at speed. Gain a shared communication playbook covering what gets automated, what gets drafted, and what has to come directly from a person.
- Make decisions you can defend. Own high-stakes calls with confidence, clarity, and the reasoning to back them up, in the room and after it.
- Create cultures of maniacal clarity. Leave with team norms for email, IM, video, and live conversation that cut confusion and build real accountability.
