Erik Qualman

Speaking topics

Presentations listed below include in-person and virtual keynotes, as well as workshops, fireside chats, and other presentation formats.

• Digital Leadership: Future Proofing You and Your Organization

  Leaders this digital decade are made not born. We don’t have a choice on whether we transform, the choice is how well we do it. The key is understanding and never forgetting the powerful harmony between the offline and online. While technology changes every second; human nature never does.

  Based on profound and practical research, Erik Qualman showcases the five habits that drive success and happiness for employees, partners, and customers. He reveals new techniques including Posting-It-Forward, Being Flawsome™, Socialnomics™, 1 to 10, and other insights that will transform your audience and organization. Learn how to stay a year ahead of your competition but never a year ahead of your market.

  Key takeaways include:

  • The five digital leadership habits of leading organizations.
  • New methods of innovation.
  • Future Proofing top-line and bottom-line growth.

  This entertaining, educating, and empowering experience provides audiences with the tools and knowledge needed today, and tomorrow, to drive quantum growth.

• Big vs. Busy: How to Focus in an Unfocused World

  It seems impossible to focus in this unfocused world. Yet, the main difference between winners and losers in this era of quantum change and distraction is… focus. Winners are constantly focusing on BIG things versus BUSY things. While it sounds simple, it’s not easy.

  The #1 killer of promising careers, teams, and businesses is a lack of focus. We either try to do too much, get easily distracted, or put our time, treasures, and talent into the wrong buckets. Erik Qualman shares insights from his #1 bestselling book, The Focus Project, providing practical techniques to make focus a daily habit. Learning to focus in this unfocused world is a modern superpower. How and what we focus on today will determine our growth and success tomorrow.

  Key takeaways include:

  • Being the change vs fearing the change.
  • Making focus a daily habit.
  • Going big vs. busy.

• Artificial Intelligence: Transforming Your Future… Today

  We don’t have a choice on whether we digitally transform via AI. The choice is how well we do it. As a leading futurist, professor, and author, Erik Qualman is at the forefront of the AI revolution and the impact it’s having across all sectors.

  The key is not only leveraging AI, social media, IoT, mobile, AI, and blockchain, but understanding how they work together to drive successful outcomes like winning customers, employee retention, and beyond. In short, it’s about getting to artificial relevance.

  Key takeaways include how to:

  • Use AI to make your organization more efficient and human.
  • Overcome the challenges these new technologies present including successfully navigating ethical implications, job adjustments, algorithmic bias, employee retention, privacy, security, and more.
  • Strike the right balance between AI and eye-to-eye (Jetsons + Flintstones).

  This session will give you timeless tips on how to stay ahead today and tomorrow.

• Innovation by Design: Being the Disruptor vs. the Disrupted

  To ensure you are the disruptor versus the disrupted, you must understand societal shifts and instill a culture of creativity around them. This session looks at key future trends and their impact on your organization with Erik Qualman equipping audiences with the organizational roadmap for continual transformation: fostering a culture of daily innovation. After all, most innovation is evolutionary vs. revolutionary. Leap over the competition by landing on a foundation of progressive and practical innovation principles. Future forward.

• Socialnomics: Winning Customers’ Hearts and Minds at Scale

  Based on his #1 bestselling book, Erik Qualman dives into the powerful concept of Socialnomics. Word of mouth is on digital steroids and has transformed into world-of-mouth. Organizations must learn the new rules of social, mobile, and beyond or they will miss this once-in-a-generation opportunity to earn customers’ loyalty and drive long-term success. Socialnomics is the key to winning customers’ hearts, minds, and wallets.