Unlearn the rules, break the boundaries, free the thought process, and rediscover your untapped potential

Erik Wahl’s success as a speaker and unique understanding of vision traces back to his training as an artist.

He holds a Bachelors degree from the University of San Diego where he studied both art and business. After first working in the business world and playing with his art, he now plays in the business world by working with his art. He has founded The Wahl Group, a consulting firm specializing in helping organizations identify and implement breakthrough thinking to achieve extraordinary results.

Erik’s special blend of warmth, humor and experience helps audiences identify their unchallenged roadblocks to success. He is passionately committed to helping businesses explore new levels of vision and performance through creativity.

As the landscape for business continues to change, a clear vision is the key to successfully navigating tomorrow’s unchartered 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 audiences 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.

Topics

The Art of Vision

Your best sustainable edge is being better at mastering change and innovation than your competition. Erik’s Signature keynote, The Art of Vision 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 minutes multi-media format is ideally suited to open or close your meeting on a dynamic high note.

Discovering Your Untapped Potential

This fast paced and highly interactive 90 minutes 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.

Topics in more details

• Empowering Leadership
- Creating a culture of commitment
- Working smarter, not harder
- Unconventional wisdom for extraordinary results

• Organizational Excellence
- Creating a unique customer experience
- Out-thinking the competition
- Differentiation, differentiation, differentiation

• Embracing
 Change
- Discovering untapped potential
- Sustaining excellence in a changing economy
- Leveraging chaos to create opportunity

Testimonials

 “I have been waiting 9 years for our keynote speaker to receive the kind of standing ovation you received at our National Meeting. You made a lasting impression.” - Natl Inst. Case Management, Inc.

“The Standing Ovation you received was heart felt and well warranted.” - State Farm Insurance Companies

“Erik Wahl was the highlight of our entire conference. He captured everyone’s imagination with his creativity and added a whole new dimension to the usual motivational message, not to mention his artistic finale was a complete knockout!” - American Express – Australia

“Your presentation was once again, outstanding! After seeing you at the National Realtors conference and now our National conference, I am amazed at your ability to customize your message for both corporate and educational audiences.” - Natl Parent Teachers Assn

“Thank you once again for an Outstanding! presentation at our National Sales Meeting in Orlando. We look forward to seeing you again at our Solutions meeting next month.” - FedEx Corporation

“Erik was by far the most entertaining and motivational speaker we have ever had.” - Colorado Bankers Association

“Your incredible message was truly an inspiration to our center.” - MD Anderson Cancer Center.

“Your presentation was an outstanding contribution to our conference. Your rating in both subject matter and presentation style were some of our highest ratings ever.” - Healthcare Financial Management Assn

We continue to receive numerous emails, voicemails and handwritten notes….all in praise of you, your presentation, and most important…your message! - Walt Disney Entertainment
“You kept our group of CEO’s spellbound by your presentation. The most often repeated comment was, ‘He was the best speaker I’ve ever heard.’ “ - EOC, Inc.

Some of his clients include

Aegon, Bristol Myers Squibb, Cargill Salt, Collins Leadership Club, Del Monte Foods, Disney, Exxon Mobil, Frito Lay, GMAC Global Relocation, Hewlett Packard Company, Hilton Hotels Corporation, IBM, ING, Linksys, Lockheed Martin, Luxottica Retail, Marriott International, Microsoft, Newspaper Assn of America, Northrop Grumman, Phillip Morris, Prudential Real Estate, Sprint Nextel, Sun Guard Trust Users Group, Verizon, Walgreens, Walt Disney World, Allianz Life Insurance Co, American Express, Ameritrade, Amex, Met Life, State Farm Insurance Co, American Bankers Assn, New York Bankers, Riverside Bank, Texas Bankers Assn, Wells Fargo, Acosta Sales & Marketing, Accenture, Cedar Sinai Medical Center, Natl Assn Secondary School Principals, American Diabetes Association, America’s First Credit Union, US Chamber of Commerce, City of Beverly Hills and many many more.

Book Erik Wahl now

To book Erik Wahl for your event, or to discuss your requirements further with one of our consultants, contact us via the web, or call +44 (0) 1628 636 600.

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