Erica Orange · Futurist · Author · Keynote Speaker
Technology will drive the future. Humans will define it.
For 20 years, Erica has helped Fortune 500 leaders and global audiences shape and own their future, not just react to it.
- Forbes Top 50 Female Futurists
- 400+ keynotes on 6 continents
- TEDx speaker
- Author, AI + The New Human Frontier (Wiley)
Trusted by leaders worldwide
The organizations shaping what's next bring Erica in first.
From Fortune 500 leadership summits to global industry stages.
As featured in
Erica's keynotes
Signature keynote
The Great Recalibration
Leading between eras
The moment when the rules, rewards and roles that built our success no longer fit. Erica shows leaders how to recalibrate before the gap gets wider.
Audiences leave with
- Clarity on what's changing, and why now
- The A+I™ Framework, applied to their organization
- A plan for what to carry forward and what to let go
Includes the A+I™ Readiness Audit
More from Erica
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AI + The New Human Frontier
What makes us irreplaceable when AI can do the work.
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Think Like a Futurist
How the way we see the future shapes our ability to create it.
See Erica on stage
Erica at Microsoft: introducing Agency + Identity, the human core of the A+I Framework.
Templosion · since 2008
The biggest things are happening in less and less time.
First named in 2008, templosion has only accelerated since. This isn't the old world moving faster. It's a civilizational recalibration: a departure from the linear, bounded, predictable world that came before.
Linear and predictable. Clear boundaries between jobs, industries, places and people. Plans ran in quarters and decades, and experience was a reliable guide.
Compressed and boundaryless. Change arrives faster than plans, rules or expertise can keep up, and everything is being recalibrated.
How to tell the times have changed
- Timeframes collapsePlanning cycles, product lifespans and careers keep getting shorter.
- Categories stop holdingJob titles and industry lines no longer describe what people and companies do.
- Experience stops predictingWhat worked before is no longer a reliable guide to what works next.
- Speed outruns the rulesNew realities arrive before the policies, metrics and norms to manage them.
Acceleration is the technology. Wisdom is the human response.
Explore Erica's talksWe're not in a time of change. We're in a change of time.
The A+I™ Framework
AI is two letters. Inside them are three tensions every leader must manage.
Erica's proprietary framework shows where organizations are anchored to the past, where they're ready to move and what they need to reimagine.
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The Organization
Acceleration + Inertia
Keeping pace with technology without losing the structures and strengths that still create value.
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The Strategy
Alignment + Incentives
Aligning decisions, resources and rewards around the future you want, not the past you're leaving.
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The Human
Agency + Identity
Agency is the ability to steer. Identity is knowing where you're going, and who you are beyond what you do.
Recalibrating all three is how leaders stop reacting to change and start shaping it.
What clients say
Audiences leave with sharper judgment. Organizations bring her back.
Google, KPMG, PwC, EY, PepsiCo and AARP have all brought Erica back.
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.
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Erica's ability to translate complex technologies using real-life scenarios provided valuable learnings that we can apply in our own work.
Sanjay SehgalPartner, KPMG
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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 ThaminSenior Manager, Amazon
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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 GrapenthinDirector, Corporate Communications, Navigant
Meet Erica
A futurist at the intersection of human behavior and technological change
Erica Orange helps Fortune 500 companies and global leaders reimagine what it means to think, lead, and stay human in an accelerating world.
She is the author of AI + The New Human Frontier (Wiley) and co-founder of Wake the Future, and for two decades she has been one of the most sought-after voices on the future of humanity.
More about Erica
Published by Wiley
The book
Reimagining the future of time, trust + truth.
AI + The New Human Frontier by Erica Orange
Why our curiosity, critical thinking, and empathy will become more valuable, not less, as AI evolves, and how to put trust and human judgment at the center of what comes next.
Wake theFuture
Also from EricaWant two futurists in the room?
With her husband and fellow futurist Jared Weiner, Erica co-founded Wake the Future, helping organizations build the human capabilities that matter most in a world that keeps accelerating: Agency, Identity, Judgment, and Curiosity.
- The Human Edge: The A+I AdvantageJoint keynote
- Futurist in ResidenceOngoing advisory
- Workshops + A+I in PracticeFor leadership teams
- YouTubeNew episodes every Tuesday
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