SPEAKING

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BOOK ERICA

  • “Erica brought incredible energy and insight to our launch event. She delivered an inspiring and thought-provoking presentation, and brilliantly highlighted how AI will augment, not replace us, inspiring everyone to embrace creativity and adaptability. Erica’s keynote was a game-changer, leaving our audience motivated and ready to lead in a fast-changing world.” 

    David Grabert
    Chief Marketing Officer, CGS Inc.

  • “Erica’s insights challenged us to think critically about the forces shaping our society and the opportunities that lie ahead. She brought awareness about complex global dynamics and helped us better understand how we can navigate and adapt to change.”

    Javier Davila
    Head of the Financial Management Division, Inter-American Development Bank 

  • “The NYSEDC was honored to host Erica as our keynote speaker at our 2025 Annual Meeting. She is smart, energetic, and inspiring. Her ability to translate a complex issue like AI into terms that everyone could understand while also providing guidance on how our members could leverage AI made her one of the best speakers we’ve ever had. She was knowledgeable & approachable. Her energy & enthusiasm were contagious. Each attendee walked out more confident about the future. I would highly recommend her to anyone who wants to learn about what the future has in store!”

    Ryan M Silva
    Executive Director, New York State Economic Development Council (NYSEDC)

  • It was a pleasure to have Erica present at our Leadership Summit. Through thought-provoking ideas, engaging personal stories and practical real-world examples, she energized our team and drove dynamic conversations that have inspired our teams to explore new and innovative ways of working together

    Chitra Ebenezer
    Chief Marketing Officer, Velcro Companies

  • Erica's Talk was a hit. It really had our attendees thinking about the many possibilities ahead, and the talk sent them off to their professional development sessions with "eyes wide open".

    Carrie Grapenthin
    Director, Corporate Communications & Integrated Marketing, Navigant

  • What makes Erica a very engaging and thoughtful speaker is her desire to understand the audience and then curate the session catering to specific needs.

    Aazath Thamin
    Senior Manager, Amazon

  • Erica's Lively, Engaging delivery was a great way to engergize our first session.

    Loraine Keopenick
    Coordinator of Member Services, INPACT Americas Int'l Alliance of Professional Accountants

  • Erica's ability to translate complex technologies using real -life scenarios provided valuable learnings that we can apply in our own work.

    Sanjay Sehgal
    Partner, Advisory Services - Head of Markets, KPMG

Speaking Topics

  • 01/ AI + THE NEW HUMAN FRONTIERS

    If AI can access any fact instantly, analyze data faster than any human, and optimize decisions at scale, what's left for us? Curiosity. Intuition. Discernment. Imagination. Lived experience. As AI accelerates what's possible, organizations are caught between a world being created and the outdated mindsets they're still defending. This keynote shows leaders how to navigate that gap by cultivating Agency and Identity (A+I) – reclaiming independent judgment and cognitive sovereignty in a world designed to outsource both.

    What You'll Learn

    • How to unlearn industrial-era assumptions that limit human potential

    • How to through inquiry when “having all the answers" is no longer enough

    • How to protect cognitive sovereignty: thinking for yourself in a machine-driven world

    • Build an organization defined by identity, judgment, and wisdom – not just output

    • Why tolerating ambiguity is now a core competency

  • 02/ THINK LIKE A FUTURIST

    Much of what leaders rely on today (how we work, measure success, make decisions, and even define ourselves) was built for a world that no longer exists. This isn’t just about learning more; it’s about unlearning the assumptions, habits, and routines that anchor us to the past. This requires challenging core thinking, leaving past assumptions behind, and approaching the ways in which we see the world and our organizations in a new light.

    What You’ll Learn

    • Why the knowledge that got you here can become the biggest obstacle to what comes next.

    • How certainty becomes a leadership liability during massive change.

    • The “forgetting habits” and mindset shifts to future-proof you and your thinking.

  • 03/ THE TRUST PARADOX

    Deepfakes, AI-generated content, and rampant misinformation are eroding the line between what is real, fake, true and false. At the same time, trust has never been more critical to enterprise success. Leaders now face an impossible challenge: building credibility when even what you see, hear, or read can’t be fully trusted. This keynote explores the Trust Paradox – how to cultivate authenticity, reinforce human judgment, and make trust a defining advantage in an era where proof can be manufactured in seconds.

    What You’ll Learn

    • How to define authenticity, and identify risk, in a world of AI-generated content.

    • How to lead when your team can’t tell what’s real and build internal trust when external signals are compromised.

    • Why human judgment is the last reliable signal, and how to make it a core competitive asset.

BOOK ERICA
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Erica Orange

Technology will drive the future. Erica is here to make sure humans define it.

Erica Orange is a globally recognized futurist, keynote speaker, and author who works at the intersection of technological change and what it means to be human. She has delivered over 400 keynotes across six continents — from Fortune 500 boardrooms to TEDx stages — helping people confront one of the defining questions of our time: As the world accelerates, what must we strengthen in ourselves?

As the author of AI + The New Human Frontier and co-founder of Wake the Future, Erica explores how exponential change reshapes decision-making, culture, and identity — and what it takes to lead with clarity when the ground keeps shifting. Her work centers on three capacities that no disruption can take away: Agency, Identity, and Wisdom. The inner resources that determine not just how we perform, but who we become.

Her work has been featured in Wired, Politico, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and CBS This Morning, and she has been recognized as one of the world’s Top 50 Female Futurists.

What sets Erica apart is her ability to translate complexity into clarity — helping audiences see through uncertainty, cultivate independent judgment, and make decisions that are deliberate, grounded, and future-ready.

With an energetic presence and refreshingly direct style, she leaves audiences not just inspired, but fundamentally shifted in how they think, act, and navigate what comes next.

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Let’s Work Together!

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