Dr. Eric Solomon
Dr. Eric Solomon helps organizations stay distinctive and human in an age of AI and relentless acceleration. Eric spent 15 years building brands at YouTube, Spotify, and Instagram. Cognitive psychologist and founder of The Human Operating System, he writes for Harvard Business Review and Psychology Today.
New York, United States
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Eric holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology and spent fifteen years building brands at YouTube, Spotify, Instagram, and Bonobos. He teaches at Fordham's Gabelli School of Business, writes for Harvard Business Review and Psychology Today, and is the creator of The Human Operating System.
Eric's work sits at the intersection of psychology, strategy, and leadership. His frameworks help teams cut through the noise to make choices that actually align with their values. Leaders and organizations working with Eric gain tools to navigate complexity without losing what makes them distinctive.
Audiences walk away with a shared language for moving from "more" to "better," practical frameworks for maintaining judgment and originality as AI reshapes creative and strategic work, and a clearer sense of how to lead through uncertainty without defaulting to the middle.
If you want a speaker who makes complex ideas useful and leaves your audience thinking differently about their work and their lives, book Dr. Eric Solomon.
Topics, Sessions And Talks
Most leaders are moving fast. This talk asks the question they rarely pause for: fast toward what? Dr. Eric Solomon draws on cognitive psychology and fifteen years inside some of the world's most consequential brands to help audiences distinguish between the pursuit of more and the building of something better. He offers frameworks for making sense of constant motion, aligning choices to values, and adapting when the ground shifts. Ideal for all-company meetings, leadership summits, and culture and transformation events.
74% of new web pages now include AI-generated content, and the results are converging. Dr. Eric Solomon calls this the broken bell curve: AI predicts the middle, platforms reward the middle, and organizations start behaving like the middle. Drawing on brand strategy experience at Spotify, YouTube, and Instagram, Eric offers a practical framework for staying distinctive when the machines are optimizing for average. Relevant for marketing and brand teams, creative organizations, and any audience integrating AI into their work.
Eric Solomon builds every engagement from scratch. Working directly with event organizers, he designs presentations, half-day workshops, and multi-session programs around the specific leadership challenges, team dynamics, and cultural context of each organization. Rooted in cognitive psychology and real operating experience across tech, brand, and consumer businesses, these custom sessions address what is actually happening inside a team — not a generic framework dropped into a new room. Suited to leadership teams, executive retreats, and offsite workshops.
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