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Erica Dhawan

Leading Authority on 21st-Century Teamwork, Collaboration, and Innovation

Speaking Fee: $52,000 i Fees vary by event type, travel, and appearance details.

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Named the “Oprah of Management Thinkers,” Erica Dhawan is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, top-rated keynote speaker, founder & CEO of Cotential, and the world’s leading authority on 21st-century collaboration and connectional intelligence.

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Meet Erica Dhawan

When leaders want to break team silos, drive exponential growth and innovate through teamwork, they call Erica Dhawan. She is an internationally recognized leading authority, speaker, and advisor on 21st century teamwork, collaboration, and innovation. She is also well-known for her keynote and motivational speaking. Erica speaks on global stages ranging from the World Economic Forum at Davos to TED and for companies such as Coca-Cola, FedEx, Goldman Sachs, Walmart, SAP, and Cisco. Erica Dhawan is available to be booked for corporate and private events. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group today to inquire about Erica Dhawan’s fees.

Want to book Erica Dhawan for an event?

Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group at 215-995-0905 to book Erica Dhawan for a keynote speech, corporate event, leadership program, workshop, fireside chat, virtual appearance, or other private or professional event.

Our team will help confirm Erica Dhawan’s availability, speaking fee, travel requirements, and fit for your audience. To start the booking process, please share your event date, location, audience size, event format, and the type of presentation you are looking for.

The Mollie Plotkin Group is a full-service keynote speaker agency and entertainment bureau that helps organizations secure keynote speakers, entertainers, athletes, celebrities, and thought leaders for corporate meetings, conferences, fundraisers, and special events.

Biography

21st Century Teamwork & Collaboration

As a shy, introverted Indian-American girl growing up in Pittsburgh, Erica Dhawan struggled to find her voice. She juggled two languages and two cultures, but, eventually, learned the skills needed to build connections across differences. Since then, she’s been fascinated with human connection and studying 21st-century teamwork and collaboration.

For over 20 years, Erica has studied human innovation and collaboration.

She has degrees from Harvard, MIT Sloan, and The Wharton School, teaching courses in leadership and collaboration as a research fellow at Harvard and MIT as well. Her research during this time motivated her to start a speaking business which took off after her book Get Big Things Done became a best-seller.

Suddenly, she was a sought-after keynote speaker, addressing global leaders at the World Economic Forum, getting interviewed by Good Morning America host Robin Roberts, and teaching twenty-first-century collaboration skills to thousands of leaders across various industries, companies, and countries.

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In addition to Get Big Things Done, Erica has written a second WSJ bestselling book – Digital Body Language. While Get Big Things Done challenges audiences and organizations to innovate faster and further, together, Digital Body Language teaches audiences new means of effective collaboration and teamwork in a digital-first human workplace.

Erica also regularly contributes to Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Fast Company. Her research on 21st-century teamwork has also been featured in the New York Times, WSJ, and World Economic Forum at Davos.

Hire Erica Dhawan

The business world is increasingly digital and work practices are changing at a blistering rate.

Erica uses the power of storytelling, humor, and key research findings to provide audiences with interactive, refreshing, practical strategies for modern innovation-driving teamwork. She was named by Thinkers50 as “The Oprah of Management Ideas,” featured as one of the Top 20 Management Experts around the world by GlobalGurus, and been ranked as a top female keynote speaker.

Erica’s Past Clients Include:

Coldwell Banker
McDonald’s
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting at Davos
Google
The Walt Disney Company
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield
The United States Army
Bank of America
The Miami Heat
The Association for Talent Development
Lockheed Martin
and more

How to Hire Erica Dhawan

To hire Erica Dhawan for an event, contact the Mollie Plotkin Group with the proposed event date, location, audience size, event format, and program goals. Erica Dhawan is available for corporate events, conferences, leadership meetings, private events, workshops, fireside chats, and virtual programs.

After receiving your request, a Mollie Plotkin Group booking agent will review Erica Dhawan’s availability, discuss the event details, and get back to you within 48 hours with next steps for securing Erica Dhawan for your program.

Erica Dhawan Booking Fee

The cost to book Erica Dhawan depends on the event date, location, format, audience size, and scope of the appearance. Erica Dhawan’s speaking fee starts at $52,000, while virtual programs typically start at $30,000. Speaking fees may vary for keynote speeches, workshops, fireside chats, private events, corporate meetings, and virtual programs.

For the most accurate Erica Dhawan booking fee, contact the Mollie Plotkin Group with your event details. Our team will help confirm availability, pricing, and the best format for your event.

Speaking Topics & Programs

Erica tailors her program to each audience and industry she speaks with so if you would like to discuss tailoring his keynote further, schedule a Zoom call with Erica and the MPG team.

Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence

We all have the power to drive innovation in the age of AI.

But we live in a world of endless meetings, emails, and constant cross-team dysfunction, duplication, and delays. Our collaboration skills aren’t always 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 bottom-line impact by harnessing the power of networks.

Key Takeaways:

Learn successful tactics to address communication overload and foster authentic, innovation-driving relationships.
Discover tools to break down silos and keep teams aligned, accountable, and motivated both in-person and online.
Gain specific actions to foster loyalty, respect, collaboration, and innovation across stakeholder networks, regardless of physical distance.

Win Together: Build Resilient and 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. Get ready to be captivated, motivated, and equipped with the tools to bring out the best in yourself and those around you.

In this keynote, the secrets to unlocking peak performance and team spirit in the new world of work are revealed.Discover the exact strategies needed to build 21st-century teams that defy the odds – whether it’s how to be a better leader in the AI revolution or how to 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 thrive in it.

Key Takeaways:

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.

Collaborate Faster and Further, Together

Email replies that show up a week later. Video chats full of “oops… sorry no you go” and “can you hear me?!” Ambiguous text-messages.

Is it any wonder communication takes us so much time and effort to figure out? 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 happening from behind a screen, traditional body language signals are no longer visible. Or are they?

In this keynote, Erica combines cutting-edge research with engaging storytelling to decode the new signals and cues that have replaced traditional body language. In-person, we lean in, uncross our arms, smile, nod, and make eye contact to show 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. Get ready to supercharge your teams with collectively understood rules that foster connection, build trust, and drive innovation.

Key Takeaways:

Understand your collaboration style and the digital body language signals you may be broadcasting (even if you don’t intend to!).
Create cultures of maniacal clarity across email, phone, IM, text, video, and even live meetings.
Develop a collaboration strategy that fosters valuable relationships, both in-person and online.
End cultures of useless meetings, missed deadlines, and digital misunderstandings.

Featured Client Reviews for Erica Dhawan

Erica’s presentation was an absolute hit. – Erik Spoelstra, Head Coach of Miami Heat

Erica offers a profound look at how to foster inclusion and better leadership in our digital world. – Billie Jean King, American Tennis Star, Founder, Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative

Terrific. Our leaders were very engaged and had immediate practical takeaways. Erica made a big impact. – Mike Fucci, Chairman Emeritus, Deloitte

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

Books

Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance

An instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller

The definitive guide to communicating and connecting in a hybrid world.

Email replies that show up a week later. Video chats full of “oops sorry no you go” and “can you hear me?!” Ambiguous text-messages. Weird punctuation you can’t make heads or tails of. Is it any wonder communication takes us so much time and effort to figure out? 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 happening from behind a screen, traditional body language signals are no longer visible -- or are they? In Digital Body Language, Erica Dhawan, a go-to thought leader on collaboration and a passionate communication junkie, 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 real life, we lean in, uncross our arms, smile, nod and make eye contact to show 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. Dhawan investigates a wide array of exchanges―from large conferences and video meetings to daily emails, texts, IMs, and conference calls―and offers insights and solutions to build trust and clarity to anyone in our ever changing world.

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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.

We typically associate success and leadership with smarts, passion and luck. But in today's hypercompetitive world, even those gifts aren't enough. Get Big Things Done argues that the game changer is a thoroughly modern skill called Connectional Intelligence. Virtually anyone can maximize his or her 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 from business and sports to academics, health and politics by quickly, efficiently and creatively helping people enlist supporters, drive innovation, develop strategies and implement solutions to big problems.

Can a small-town pumpkin grower affect the global food crisis? A Fortune 500 executive change her company's outdated culture through video storytelling? A hip-hop artist launch an international happiness movement? Or a scientist use virtual reality games to lower pain for burn victims? The answer, you'll read, is a resounding yes. Each of these individuals is using Connectional Intelligence to become a power player to get big things done.

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.

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