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.
- 400+Keynotes
- 6Continents
- 20Years
Recognized as one of the
World’s Top 50 Female Futurists
Erica Orange
Erica Orange is a futurist at the intersection of human behavior and technological change - helping Fortune 500 companies and global leaders reimagine what it means to think, lead, and stay human in an accelerating world.
With over 400 keynotes delivered across six continents, she is one of the most sought-after voices on the future of humanity.
As author of AI + The New Human Frontier (Wiley, 2024), and Co-Founder of Wake the Future, Erica helps organizations cultivate what AI cannot replicate: Agency (independent thought and cognitive sovereignty) and Identity (a stable sense of self in a changing world).
Recognized by Forbes as one of the world's Top 50 Female Futurists, her work has been featured in Wired, Bloomberg, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and CBS This Morning. Erica helps leaders shape the future by reframing emerging forces, challenging assumptions, and shifting how people think — so they remain in the driver's seat of what comes next.
Speaking topics
Signature talks for leadership teams, conferences, and organizations
Erica turns the forces shaping tomorrow into clear thinking audiences can act on immediately. The result: a room that leaves energized, aligned, and ready to lead through what's next.
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AI + The New Human Frontier
Cultivating Agency + Identity (A+I) in a world designed to outsource both
If AI can access any fact, analyze any data, and optimize any decision, what's left for us?
Curiosity. Intuition. Discernment. Imagination. How leaders reclaim independent judgment and cognitive sovereignty as AI accelerates.
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Think Like a Futurist
How to build the thinking to let go, adapt, and thrive in today's chaotic times
Much of what leaders rely on today was built for a world that no longer exists.
Why the way we see the future shapes our ability to create it, and how to unlearn the assumptions that anchor us to the past.
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The Trust Paradox
Building credibility in a world where seeing is no longer believing
Deepfakes and AI-generated content are blurring the line between real and fake, true and false.
How to cultivate authenticity, reinforce human judgment, and make trust an advantage when proof can be manufactured in seconds.
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What clients say
Audiences leave thinking differently. Organizations bring her 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
Why organizations bring Erica in
The future is something you build, not something that happens to you.
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01The challenge
Speed without clarity.
The pace of change is no longer the problem. The problem is speed without a grounded sense of who you are and how you decide. People feel it in how leaders communicate, how teams decide, and whether anyone's keeping up.
Most organizations have invested heavily in new tools. Few have invested equally in the humans leading them.
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02Erica's solution
Agency + Identity (A+I).
Erica's signature framework builds what technology alone can't provide: the judgment to navigate uncertainty.
- Strengthen AgencyThe capacity to think independently and lead without waiting for certainty.
- Anchor IdentityA sense of self stable enough to withstand market shifts and tech pressures.
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03The impact
People leave differently than they arrived.
Not with more information, but with a new way of seeing and thinking: a clearer sense of what they control, what they stand for, and how to lead with conviction when there's no roadmap.
Organizations keep bringing Erica back, because the conversations she starts don't end when she leaves the stage.
Published by Wiley
The book
AI + The New Human Frontier
Reimagining the Future of Time, Trust + Truth
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.
Two decades of thinking about the future…together.
As partners in life, work, and parenthood, Erica and Jared Weiner co-founded Wake the Future to bring that thinking to stages, organizations, and anyone ready to shape what comes next. It's about the human edge — the Agency and Identity (A+I) that make us irreplaceable in a world that keeps accelerating. Those conversations now live across joint (and solo) keynotes, workshops, futurist advisory, and weekly YouTube episodes.
In an era where change is the only constant, the ability to anticipate what’s coming next can set you apart from the competition. “Seeing around corners” isn’t about having a crystal ball; it’s about using smart strategies and tools to prepare for the future…whatever it throws at you.
