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Speaker Overview - Winning Together in the Age of AI (2025)
Digital Teamwork, Collaboration, Innovation (2024)
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Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust & Connection No Matter the Distance
Everyday we muddle our way through ambiguous emails and texts, disjointed video meetings, and confusing conference calls. How did we lose our innate capacity to understand each other?
Humans rely on body language to connect and build trust, but with most of our communication now happening remotely, traditional body language signals are no longer visible – or are they? Erica Dhawan's book Digital Body Language combines cutting edge research with engaging storytelling to decode the new signals and cues that have replaced traditional body language across genders, generations, and culture. In person, we instinctively show others that 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. Digital Body Language will turn your daily misunderstandings into a set of collectively understood laws that foster connection, no matter the distance.
Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence
Connectional Intelligence unlocks the 21st-century secret to getting “big things done” regardless of who you are, where you live, or what you do. Virtually anyone can maximize their potential and achieve breakthrough performance by developing this crucial ability. So, what is it? Put simply, Connectional Intelligence is the ability to combine knowledge, ambition, and human capital, forging connections on a global scale that create unprecedented value and meaning. As radical a concept as emotional intelligence was in the ’90s, connectional intelligence is changing everything by quickly, efficiently, and creatively helping people enlist supporters, drive innovation, develop strategies, and implement solutions to big problems.
Erica Dhawan and Saj-nicole Joni’s Get Big Things Done unlocks the secrets of how the world’s movers and shakers use connectional intelligence to achieve their personal and professional goals – no matter how ambitious.
Erica Dhawan
Expert on Leadership, AI, Teamwork, Innovation
Bestselling WSJ Author
Erica Dhawan is an internationally recognized speaker, authority and advisor on 21st century teamwork, collaboration and innovation. Named as one of the top 50 management thinkers in the world by Thinkers50, she is the author of two bestselling books, Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence and Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance.
As we continue to experience an increasingly digital world where work practices are changing at a blistering pace, Erica shares innovative strategies to unlock the collective power of teams, build a culture of trust across any distance and create authentic engagement to ensure competitiveness.
Rated #1 on the Top Women Keynote Speakers list, Erica frequently appears in the Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and The Wall Street Journal. Erica speaks on global stages ranging from the World Economic Forum at Davos, to the US Army, to companies such as Coca-Cola, FedEx, Goldman Sachs, Walmart, and Cisco. She holds degrees from Harvard University, MIT Sloan, and The Wharton School.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
Win Together: Build high-performing teams in the age of AI +
This isn’t your ordinary keynote; it’s a front-row seat to the future of inspiration and impact in the age of AI. WSJ Bestselling Author and award winning keynote speaker Erica Dhawan promises not just a talk but an immersive experience, where the secrets to unlocking peak performance and team spirit are revealed in the new world of work. Get ready to be captivated, motivated, and equipped with the tools to bring out the best in yourself and those around you.
Discover the exact strategies to build 21st century teams that defy the odds, whether it’s how to be a better leader in the AI revolution or turn challenges into triumphs in the digital-first world. Spoiler alert: AI won’t replace us, but leaders who master it will redefine the game. Globally recognized teamwork expert Erica Dhawan provides actionable insights, equipping attendees with the knowledge and strategies to not only adapt to the changing landscape but to thrive in it.
Learning Outcomes
- Build Trust in Times of Change: Learn proven techniques to foster trust within teams amidst constant digital and AI transformation
- Thrive Amid Uncertainty: Gain actionable tips to enhance engagement, minimize friction, and confidently navigate the unpredictable terrain
- AI as a Leadership Tool: Recognize AI as an asset rather than a threat, and harness its capabilities for organizational success
- Cultivate Team Spirit: Uncover strategies to enhance collaboration, experimentation, and camaraderie within your teams --
LEADERSHIP:
Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence
Learn new insights and tools to accelerate the connected power of teams, become more agile and innovative, and drive breakthrough ideas and outcomes in a digital workplace. +
We live in a world of endless meetings and emails and constant cross-team dysfunction, duplication and delays. Our collaboration skills aren’t 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 top and bottom line impact.
Learning Outcomes:
- Learn successful tactics to address communication overload and create authentic digital and in-person relationships
- Discover how to break down silos and keep teams aligned, accountable, and motivated beyond in-person meetings
- Gain specific actions to foster loyalty, respect, collaboration and innovation across all stakeholder networks regardless of physical distance --
TEAMWORK: Collaborate Faster & Further, Together
Learn the new common sense rules of effective communication on digital teams across business silos, levels, backgrounds and regions. +
We all leave a digital impression on each other. If someone doesn’t text back for hours or even days, do you think they are being rude? Is using an emoji or LOL unprofessional, or creating a human connection with your team? What impression does your boss, team, or colleague think of that kind of behavior? Whether your team works on separate floors, buildings or even countries, they have to connect online in order to collaborate. These new misunderstandings are happening all day, every day. They’re reducing your employee engagement, morale, and team performance each time.
In this keynote, you will learn new rules and nuances of Digital Body Language, the new requirement to innovate faster and further together, led by collaboration expert Erica Dhawan.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand your collaboration style and what digital body language signals you are broadcasting (even if you don’t intend to!)
- Create cultures of maniacal clarity in email, phone, IM, text, video mediums and even live meetings in the new normal
- Develop a collaboration strategy to create the highest performing teams and relationships --
Erica’s presentation was absolutely perfect for our leaders. 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.
–Sodexoat
Erica’s presentation was absolutely perfect for our leaders. 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.
–Sodexoat
Terrific. Our leaders were very engaged and had immediate practical takeaways. Erica made a big impact.
–Deloitte
Erica’s presentation was an absolute hit.
–Erik Spoelstra, Head Coach of Miami Heat
Erica was even more impressive, relatable, and engaging in person, I really enjoyed the session. She has a unique way of making you feel that she is speaking directly to you, even in a group.
–SONY
Non-verbal cues are vital to understanding each other. Now that so much communication happens online–and with the massive shift to distance learning and remote workplaces–we need Erica Dhawan’s book more than ever. In Digital Body Language, Erica shares tips and strategies for communicating effectively on chats, emails, and video calls, so everyone can successfully share and connect in the digital age.
– Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook