Erica Keswin: Employee Engagement
Workplace culture and leadership speaker Erica Keswin helps organizations build human-centered workplaces where stronger relationships, intentional rituals and meaningful connection improve performance and retention.
Quick Facts:
- International workplace culture and leadership keynote speaker.
- Bestselling author and workplace strategist.
- More than two decades focused on human leadership and workplace relationships.
- Author of the Human Workplace Trilogy.
Formats:
- Keynote Speaker | Workplace Culture Speaker | Employee Retention Speaker
Audiences:
- Executives, HR leaders, people and culture teams, managers and organizations navigating hybrid work, employee retention, leadership development, workplace culture and the changing expectations of employees.
Outcomes:
- Build stronger workplace relationships that support trust, connection, collaboration and performance.
- Use intentional rituals to strengthen culture and create meaningful moments of belonging.
- Rethink retention by creating workplace experiences that people genuinely value and want to remain part of.
- Travels from: New York, NY
- **US Fee range: $20,001 - $35,000
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Keynote Topics:
Becoming a Great Human Leader in the Age of AI
Recent research by the Gartner Group found that “54% of managers suffer from work-induced stress” and “44% struggle to provide personalized support to their direct reports.” These findings directly impact your company’s bottom line as managers account for a whopping 70% of employee engagement. (Gallup)
Workplace strategist, Erica Keswin, will provide leaders with a roadmap to help them navigate these challenges. In Becoming a Great Human Leader, Erica teaches participants how to lead with their humanity, grow and develop employees, and deepen employee connection and engagement—by being intentional.
Erica brings a wealth of data-driven stories and case studies to this presentation, so attendees walk away with practical tips and tools that are not only good for people but are great for the bottom line. Your Audience will walk away with the following takeaways
- Understand why the human stuff is the hardest stuff
- Learn how to be a human leader through vulnerability, empathy, and effort
- Know how to leverage technology, but also know when to put it “in its place”
- Adopt an intentional mindset • Develop a Human Action Plan for becoming a great human leader
Target Audience: New managers, middle managers, senior leaders, director level, people leaders.
The ROI of IRL: How to Build a Strong Community in Your Hybrid Organization
Whether your employees are at work in real life (IRL) three days a week, three days a month or three days a year, your hybrid organization will benefit from creating a strong community. Since the US Surgeon General has made it clear that we are in the midst of an epidemic of loneliness and isolation, and hybrid work has only increased employees’ feelings of disconnection, it’s never been more important to design intentional community.
And research shows that when employees feel more connected at work, their ability to do their job, the quality of their work, and a desire to go above and beyond all increase. [Eagle Hill Consulting] In this inspiring program, Erica will teach you how to create community at work, regardless of how often people meet in person. Erica will show you why a lack of intentionality is a recipe for resentment (and bad for the bottom line!) and guide you in creating moments that matter for your employees.
Erica shares rich case studies and recent data so attendees will come away with strategies to create a human workplace where people are connected, engaged, and more likely to stay.
Your Audience will walk away with the following takeaways
- Learn how to get an ROI on your intentional IRL connection
- Understand the mental health implications of loneliness and isolation
- Know how to engage in curious conversations
- Adopt a connect-first mindset
- Develop a Human Action Plan for creating moments that matter
Target Audience: Leaders, managers, individual contributors
The Hidden Power of Workplace Rituals: Increased Performance and Bigger Payoffs
Nearly everything we know about work has changed over the last five years. From new perspectives on mental health, to an increased demand for purposeful work, to general uncertainty, employees are asking their leaders for more. One recent survey from the American Psychological Association found that 93% of employees value meaning and stability at work. One of the most powerful tools modern leaders can use to address these new challenges is rituals.
In this program, Erica shares the hidden power of workplace rituals and how to use them to create increased performance and bigger payoffs. How? Because rituals provide a sense of psychological safety and a connection to purpose—which boosts the bottom line. With Erica’s actionable roadmap, participants will learn helpful frameworks for building collective rituals for their teams, department or organization. Tapping into the hidden power of workplace rituals is good for people and great for business.
Your Audience will walk away with the following takeaways
- Understand what rituals give us: psychological safety, purpose, and a boost in performance—aka the bottom line.
- Learn the magic question that will help identify your organization or team’s rituals (hint: it’s personal!)
- Know how, and why, to pay attention to the Moments that Matter
- Design your own rituals roadmap using Erica’s Ask, Reflect, Design, Assess framework
Target Audience: Leaders, managers, individual contributors
Talent Short Bio
Erica Keswin is an internationally sought-after workplace culture and leadership speaker, bestselling author and strategist who helps organizations bring more humanity, connection and intention to work.
For more than two decades, Erica has explored what it means to be a human leader and how relationships influence workplace performance. Her Human Workplace Trilogy, Bring Your Human to Work, Rituals Roadmap and The Retention Revolution, was published by McGraw Hill, with each book debuting as a Wall Street Journal bestseller.
Through keynotes, workshops and coaching, Erica helps leaders strengthen relationships, develop meaningful workplace rituals and rethink employee connection and retention in today’s evolving workplace.
Her speaking and workshop clients have included L’Oréal, SXSW, TIAA, IBM, Microsoft, The New York Times and Wharton. Her insights have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Good Morning America, Forbes, O Magazine, Entrepreneur, Business Insider and Fast Company.
Erica has been recognised as one of Marshall Goldsmith’s Top 100 Coaches and by Business Insider as an innovative coach. She is also founder of the Spaghetti Project, an initiative exploring the science and stories behind relationships at work.
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