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Keynotes by Erik WahlErik Wahl is a recognized artist and speaker who inspires corporations to achieve greater levels of organizational performance. His consulting firm specializes in challenging professionals to implement breakthrough thinking to achieve extraordinary results. Erik has keynoted meetings for America’s top corporations, guest lectured at the London School of Business and performed for organizations all over the world. Erik's unique understanding of vision traces back to his experience as an artist. Erik earned his bachelors degree in Business Communication before embarking on an eight year career as a partner in a corporate firm. After first working in the business world and playing with his art; Erik now PLAYS in the business world by WORKING with his art. Erik’s sought after artwork can be seen hanging in executive offices around the world. And as one of the country’s top platform speakers, Erik shares his powerful message with audiences from coast to coast.

Using art as his vehicle, Erik is able to channel success strategies in a uniquely fresh and entertaining way. His painting seemlessly becomes a visual metaphor to the core of his message. At the dramatic conclusion of his program he turns the painting upside down to reveal a stunning new picture of lasting success. His skill as an artist, a dynamic performer and a speaker will leave your audience with a message that is as memorable as it is impactful.

Erik's painting seamlessly becomes a visual metaphor to the fabric of his message of creating a vision. At the dramatic conclusion of his program he turns the painting upside down to reveal a stunning portrait of lasting vision. His skill as an artist, a dynamic performer and a speaker will leave your audience with a message that is as memorable as it is impactful.

Programs:

The Art of Vision

Erik's most popular and most requested program is "The Art of Vision". This signature keynote is an entertaining and highly practical program that uncovers new ways to make your organization more creative, more productive and ultimately, more profitable. This 45-60 minute multi-media format is ideally suited to open or close your meeting on a dynamic high note.Your best sustainable in edge in business is the ability to differentiate yourself from your competition. Professionals at all levels, who embrace innovative strategies, can achieve superior levels of performanceby creatively and visibly differentiating themselves from the competition.

Organizational Excellence

- Differentiation, Differentiation, Differentiation

- Out-thinking the Competition

- Working smarter, not harder

Embracing Change

- Sustaining Excellence in a changing economy

- Leveraging chaos to create opportunity

Empowering Leadership

- Creating a culture of commitment

- Transcending mediocrity through extraordinary Vision

As the landscape for business continues to change a clear vision is the key to successfully navigating tomorrow’s uncharted waters. The Art of Vision is a program specifically designed to help companies utilize unconventional wisdom and build a vision for their future. No matter what kind of organization - from small companies to large corporations - employees at all levels can better embrace the future by becoming more innovative. By breaking apart traditional thinking, Erik challenges and inspires his audience to redefine commonly held assumptions and misconceptions about “creativity”, “goals”, “success” and “vision”. Discover how you can sharpen your creative skills and identify a personal style for inspiring yourself and others to rethink vision and purpose. The principles in this uplifting and highly practical program will redefine the role of a leader as an artist as well as an architect.

If you've already booked Erik or you're looking for a new program, consider Program 2:
Discovering Your Untapped Potential
This fast paced and highly interactive 90 minute workshop is designed to provide specific strategies to unleash personal and professional achievement through creativity. By exploring techniques to stretch our minds, audiences will uncover new methods to solve old problems, discover new opportunities, and ultimately differentiate themselves from their competition. This program is ideally suited as a follow up for audiences who have already experienced Erik’s Art of Vision keynote.

The Art of Vision Strategic Workshop: Re-inventing your Business

Overall Objective: Participants will walk away with a renewed innovative vision for the future of their business.

Key teaching points: The purpose of this workshop is to provide the strategic tools to help individuals embrace the future of their business with greater creativity and innovation. It is an intentionally fun environment where participants will re-discover their own natural ability to be innovative and learn how to apply it to their own business. We will explore why creativity is important in business? - How Creativity is a common thread in all great business models and business visionaries. - How creativity has been systematically learned out of us. - Participants will learn the discipline of creativity and discover that we all have creative abilities that can be tapped to build a new vision for our future.
Thinking Outside the Box: What is Creativity?

* What is a creative idea worth?
* How has the model for Business evolved?
* What is the common thread running through successful Business?
* What is a the role of a leader in creating a vision?
* What are the key trends effecting business today?
* What is differentiation from your competitors?

Creativity 201: Re-Introducing Creativity

* Artistic exercises
* Exploration of new ideas and concepts
* Passion and creation, process over product
* Team activities
* Paradoxical games
* Teamwork exercises

Creativity 301: Professional Application

* Design a business exercise
* Combine business exercise
* How does it apply to own business
* SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, Treats)

Close with an open dialog and discussion on how we can all use the tools we have learned to create a new vision for the challenges and opportunities within our industry.
Contact us for more information on how Erik's message can be used for your audience. Testimonials, preview opportunities, and additional videos and information available on request.

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