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Erik Qualman

5-time #1 bestselling author Erik Qualman has performed in over 55 countries and reached 50 million people as a keynote speaker.

Meet Erik Qualman

Erik Qualman has been called “Digital Dale Carnegie” and “the Tony Robbins of Tech.” He is a digital transformation expert who helps organizations harness the power of digital media and technology to amplify brand presence and improve marketing strategies. He is also well-known for his keynote and motivational speaking. Erik Qualman is available to be booked for corporate and private events. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group today to inquire about Erik Qualman’s fees.

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Biography

Higher Education

Erik Qualman is a former sitting professor at MIT and Harvard’s edX labs and has received an honorary doctorate for his groundbreaking work. Currently, he is professor of Digital Leadership at Northwestern University and his materials are used in over 500 universities.

Other Ventures

Before his speaking career, Erik worked in online marketing and eBusiness for AT&T, Yahoo, Travelzoo, and others. Additionally, his animation studio, Equalman Studios, works with some of the world’s leading brands including Disney, Oreo, Chase, and Cartier.

Books

In addition to his keynote speaking, Erik is a well-known author. His bestselling books, Socialnomics and Digital Leader, explore how digital trends and social media influence the business landscape at large. In 2012 he was a finalist for the”Most Likable Author Award” alongside Seth Godin. His work in Socialnomics has been covered by everyone from 60 Minutes to the Wall Street Journal and its principles are used by organizations like the National Guard and NASA.

His works include:

Hire Erik Qualman

With his expertise and innovative approach, Erik offers insights into digital trends and their impact on consumer behavior. He helps organizations understand how to tap into the power of social media to increase sales, cut their marketing costs, and reach consumers directly. His engaging style combines the latest industry research with practical examples, providing attendees with the tools they need to innovate and succeed. Erik’s live performances are also profoundly unique due to his pioneering video storytelling.

How to Hire Erik Qualman

Find out how to hire Erik Qualman to appear at your next event. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group to inquire about Erik Qualman’s availability and cost. When booking Erik Qualman for an event, we need to know the type of venue and location the event will take place. Erik Qualman is a popular choice for corporate events, private events, and virtual events. So, you can click the Check Availability button or contact us and an MPG Erik Qualman booking agent will get back to you within 48 hours.

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Upcoming Engagements

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Dec 03 2024

Data & Revenue Management Conference – Keynote Speaker Will Guidara – Destin, FL

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Jan 13 2025

IMSH 2025 – Keynote Speaker Nicole Malachowski – Orlando, FL

Feb 02 - 04 2025

Imaging USA 2025 – Opening Keynote Shola Richards – Dallas, TX

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Key Audience Takeaways

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, and blockchain but also understanding how they work together to drive successful outcomes like winning customers and retaining employees.

In short, it’s about getting to artificial relevance. This session will give you timeless tips on how to stay ahead – today and tomorrow.

Key Takeaways:

  1. Using AI to make your organization more efficient and human.
  2. Overcoming the challenges these new technologies present including successfully navigating ethical implications, job adjustments, algorithmic bias, employee retention, privacy, security, and more.
  3. Striking the right balance between AI and Eye-to-Eye (Jetsons + Flintstones).

 

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

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.

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:

  1. Being the change vs fearing the change.
  2. Making focus a daily habit.
  3. Going Big vs Busy.

 

Digital Leadership: Future Proofing You and Your Organization

Leaders in 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 & 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, Qualman showcases the 5 Habits that drive success & happiness for employees, partners, and customers. Qualman reveals new techniques including Posting-It-Forward, Being Flawsome™, Socialnomics™, 1 to 10, and other insights that will transform your audience & organization.

This entertaining, educating, and empowering experience will provide your audience with the tools and knowledge needed today, and tomorrow, to stay a year ahead of your competition.

Key Takeaways:

  1. The 5 digital leadership habits of leading organizations.
  2. New methods of innovation.
  3. Future-proofing top-line and bottom-line growth.

 

Innovation by Design: Being The Disruptor vs The Disrupted

To ensure you are the disruptor instead of 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. Qualman provides the roadmap for your organization’s continual transformation by fostering a culture of daily innovation. After all, most innovation is evolutionary versus revolutionary. Leap over the competition by landing on a foundation of progressive and practical innovation principles. 

 

Socialnomics: Winning Customers’ Hearts + Minds at Scale

Based on his #1 Bestseller, Erik 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.

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Books

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The Focus Project: The Not So Simple Art of Doing Less

Whether you’re an executive, a mom, a CEO, a teacher, or an entrepreneur...THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU IF:

  1. You feel stretched too thin by trying to do too much.
  2. There’s no time for relaxation or deep thinking.
  3. You’re completing thousands of tasks without achieving your goals.

 

Welcome to The Focus Project, a book designed to provide answers and solutions to the challenge of focusing in an unfocused world.

Combining street science and institutional research alongside his own personal focus project, Qualman delivers practical advice on doing the important things instead of a bunch of things.

The following is a guide to pursuing less in order to achieve more—both personally and professionally. Successful and happy people understand it’s not about getting more things done, it’s about getting more of the big things done. Learn the not so simple art of doing less.

Socialnomics - How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business Book Cover
Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business

The benchmark book on to the effects and implications of social media on our daily lives, and how businesses can harness its power

Socialnomics is an essential book for anyone who wants to understand the implications of social media on our daily lives and how businesses can tap the power of social media to increase their sales, cut their marketing costs, and reach consumers directly. In this revised and updated second edition, author Erik Qualman presents new material based on meeting with 75 Fortune 1000 companies, 50 colleges and universities, and over 100 small businesses & non-profits since the first edition. Qualman's materials have been used from IBM to NASA to Harvard to local businesses.

  • Lists the top ten easy opportunities that companies and organization miss when it comes to social media
  • Describes where social media should reside in an organization and the necessary building blocks for success
  • Explains why over 50 percent of companies still block social media to their employees and why this is a detriment to success
  • Shares proper training methods for your ENTIRE organization on social media; not just the chosen few
  • Reviews the top companies, organizations and individuals using social media, explaining what separates them from other companies and how to replicate their success

 

Social media can transform your business and your relationship with consumers. Discover what social media can do for you, and what you can do for others while using social media.

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