Erik Wahl

The Art of Vision

The most effective way to gain a sustainable advantage in the business world is by setting yourself apart from your competitors. In this engaging and highly practical program, we will explore innovative methods to enhance your organization’s creativity, innovation, and profitability. Additionally, we will emphasize the importance of equipping your employees with storytelling skills, both within your company and throughout your industry.

By adopting innovative approaches, professionals at all levels can achieve exceptional levels of performance by distinguishing themselves creatively and visibly from the competition. Whether you lead a small company or a large corporation, employees at all levels will be better equipped to face the future with increased innovation, productivity, and, ultimately, greater profitability. Businesses must embrace mental flexibility. Avoid obsolescence in an age of disruption. Some organizations face disruption, while others gain a competitive edge as disruptors

Adapting to Continuous Disruption:

• Businesses must embrace mental flexibility
• Avoid obsolescence in an age of disruption
• Some organizations face disruption, while others gain a competitive edge as disruptors

The Power of Art

• Unlocks intellectual curiosity
• Dynamic thinking enhances human potential
• Nurtures trust, compassion, relationships, leadership, and service
• Transcends automation
• Connects on a deeply human level
• Acts as a gateway to complex problem-solving

Facing the Challenge of AI:

• Automation’s inevitable advance
• The risk of falling behind generative AI
• The solution: Human creativity
• Mental adaptability and flexibility are crucial for staying relevant

The Art of Leadership

Today’s leaders face a pressure to innovate—or else perish—unlike any other time in history.  Advances in social, mobile and cloud technology, coupled with fierce global competition has made the business landscape nearly unrecognizable from what it was a mere 10 years ago.

Erik Wahl’s entertaining and invigorating Art of Leadership presentation paints a compelling new portrait for what the successful leaders of tomorrow will look like. He inspires audiences to shed old ways of thinking and “business as usual” processes that are outdated, inefficient and detrimental to productivity. Audience members learn new ways to build an emotional connection to drive future employee engagement.  Erik’s presentation stretches traditional assumptions on leadership. The end results include:

• innovative solutions to further your organization 
• attracting and engaging quality employees 
• new efficiencies and the end of detrimental redundancies

Growth and comfort cannot co-exist. When leaders come from a place of authenticity, curiosity, exploration and purpose, this leads to more meaningful connections among team members and with clients and customers—and ultimately, a more profitable organization. An engaged employee equals an engaged customer.

The Spark and The Grind

• Deconstructs the discipline of the creative process to ignite ideas to action.
• Explores The Psychology of Success and the Science of Innovation to achieve superior levels of performance.
• Harness The mental toughness required to navigate ambiguity and master complexity in a rapidly changing business environment

Disruption is the new normal. Are you creating or reacting?

UNthink™

UNthink is the signature keynote experience from Erik’s best-selling book. It is dynamic multi-media keynote experience specifically designed to challenge audiences to achieve superior levels of performance. It will inspire them to let go of their traditional thought patterns and better understand how to create disruptive strategies of innovation. Creativity is in all of us. We simply need to rediscover the keys that will unlock our untapped potential. UNthink will unleash organizational excellence and help your audience better understand that they are all capable of so much more than they have been conditioned to believe.

Erik and Tasha Wahl Interview

60 minutes curated Q and A with Tasha and Erik Wahl to talk about 20 years of growing a business and consulting for organizations worldwide, 29 years of marriage, and honest conversations about growth, failure, resistance, and gratitude.