Eric Termuende | Thought Leader on Optimizing Workplace Culture, the Future of Work, and Engagement in the Workplace

Eric Termuende

Thought Leader on Optimizing Workplace Culture, the Future of Work, and Engagement in the Workplace

Eric Termuende
Biography

Eric Termuende is a keynote speaker, bestselling author, and researcher focused on one of the defining leadership challenges of our time: how to navigate uncertainty and change when the world refuses to stand still.

For over a decade, Eric has studied leadership, trust, culture, team performance, technology, and the changing nature of work. His work explores why traditional approaches to planning and leadership can break down when conditions change quickly, and what allows people, leaders, and teams to continue moving when the path ahead is unclear.

Eric challenges the idea that the best leaders are the best predictors. Instead, his research shows the importance of creating direction without pretending to have certainty, building the trust required for honest information to travel, reducing the friction that slows teams down, and making small, deliberate One-Degree Shifts that turn action into information and progress.

Eric has brought his research and ideas to hundreds of stages around the world, working with leaders and teams at organizations including Amazon, Toyota, IBM, Coca-Cola, Lockheed Martin, Nationwide, Zoom, and Nokia. His ideas have been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, and Inc., and his first book, Rethink Work, became a bestselling resource for leaders navigating the changing world of work.

On stage, Eric combines a researcher's curiosity with a storyteller's instinct and a speaker's sense of the room. Known for his energy, humor, and highly customized approach, he makes serious ideas feel immediately relevant and practical. Audiences leave with more than inspiration. They leave with a clearer way to lead, adapt, and move forward when the future is uncertain.
 

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Featured Keynote Programs

Built For Uncertainty
Leading Teams in a World That Has Never Moved Faster

When the future stops being predictable, most leaders reach for the playbook they know: set the target, build the plan, and push the team toward it. But in a world changing faster than any plan can keep pace with, goals stop matching reality, teams grow tired of constant change, and leaders are left trying to create confidence in a future nobody can clearly see.

In this engaging, insight-filled, actionable presentation, workplace culture and leadership expert Eric Termuende delivers a customized and research-backed operating system for building teams that can move through uncertainty and change. Drawing from his forthcoming book, The Certainty Crisis, Eric shows leaders how to set a direction when the destination is unclear, build the trust required for honest information to travel, and remove the friction that quietly prevents teams from adapting.

Attendees will receive a practical guide to building teams that are more adaptable, aligned, and ready for whatever comes next. They will learn from the experiences of industry leaders, icons, and trailblazers from around the world about how to create clarity without pretending to have certainty, uncover what is slowing their teams down, and use One-Degree Shifts to turn small experiments into momentum and progress.

What audiences come away with:
•    Practical strategies to create clarity and direction through uncertainty
•    Research-backed insights on building trust and adaptability during change
•    Methods for identifying and reducing friction within teams
•    An understanding of how to harness the power of One-Degree Shifts
•    Actionable steps to turn small experiments into a team-wide habit of progress
 

The Certainty Crisis
How to Thrive in a World That Refuses to Stand Still

We were taught to wait for certainty before we move: gather more data, run one more analysis, be sure. But in a world changing faster than any plan can keep up, waiting isn't caution anymore. It's the most expensive move we never make. The clarity we're waiting for isn't coming. It sits on the other side of a move we haven't made yet.

Drawing on his forthcoming book, leadership expert Eric Termuende dismantles the myth that the best leaders are the best predictors. After years of studying what separates people who thrive in uncertainty from those who keep moving, he reveals a counterintuitive truth: action leads to clarity, not the other way around. What the best navigators hold isn't certainty about the destination. It's directional certainty:  a bearing that survives the surprises that destroy plans.

Eric walks audiences through the three moves at the heart of The Certainty Crisis: setting a direction worth rallying around when the destination is unknowable, becoming the next version of yourself instead of staying loyal to the one that got you here, and making the small, deliberate one-degree shifts that turn being wrong into cheap learning, so clarity compounds while everyone else is still gathering information. Attendees leave with a navigation system for the moments that matter most: the ones where the answer isn't obvious, and waiting is no longer an option.

What audiences come away with:
•    Why waiting for certainty has quietly become a liability, and what to trade it for
•    The difference between directional certainty and destination certainty
•    A practical method for identifying and closing the Identity Gap
•    An understanding of how to harness the power of One-Degree Shifts
•    Three questions to determine whether to hold the bearing, shift a degree, or change course
 

Blueprint To The Future
Leading in a New World of Work

Whether it is next week's weather or the yet-to-be-created technology that is sure to evolve how we work, the future is truly impossible to predict. And while the trends, charts, and forecasting are interesting, we must shift from trying to anticipate what the future looks like to building resilient systems and teams that can help us navigate whatever the future may bring.

In this engaging, insight-filled, and actionable presentation, workplace culture and leadership expert Eric Termuende delivers a customized and research-backed blueprint that has helped thousands of category-leading teams build trust, remove friction, and prepare for a future that is changing constantly, unpredictably, and faster than ever before.

Attendees will receive a practical guide to building teams that are more productive, engaged, creative, and innovative. They will learn from the experiences of industry leaders, icons, and trailblazers from around the world about the importance of building trust, removing friction, and creating a culture of experimentation.

What audiences come away with:
•    Practical strategies to boost trust, resilience, and camaraderie
•    Research-backed insights on building team agility and excitement toward impending change
•    An understanding of how to harness the power of One-Degree Shifts
•    Methods for finding and reducing friction within teams
•    Actionable steps to cultivate a culture of experimentation, risk-free
 

Unwavering
Building Incredible Teams for the Future of Work

Uncertainty is inevitable in the new world of work. In the face of ongoing change, will we see our people running for the exits, or will they be there to support and help each other? Change is happening faster than ever before, and building unwavering teams that are resilient, ultra-collaborative, and even excited about that change has never been more important. But how do we build unwavering teams? Trust, empathy, and ongoing experimentation.

Workplace culture and leadership expert Eric Termuende has spent nearly a decade decoding exactly what creates unwavering teams: those that are resilient, rooted in belonging, and have a deep sense of safety and inclusivity. These are the types of teams that thrive through change because they know that while change may be difficult, the only thing worse is standing still. Eric has created a playbook for cultivating unwavering teams, and in this session, attendees will both learn it and be able to take it home with them.

By discovering how to enhance collaboration, developing excitement for all of the possibilities experimentation yields, and deciphering the root of trust across a team, attendees will come away from this session understanding how to become the incredible leader who inspires their teams to perform at their best and stand strong through anything the future may hold.

What audiences come away with:
•    Deep knowledge about the root of collaboration and how to enhance it across the team
•    Research-backed insights around trust, psychological safety, and belonging at work
•    How to enhance excitement about change and involve the whole team in the process
•    The most important question to ask to get engagement and buy-in
•    Why the future is something to be excited about, not scared of
 

Eric Termuende
Featured Books

The Certainty Crisis - How To Thrive In A World That Refuses To Stand Stillby Eric Termuende

The Certainty Crisis - How To Thrive In A World That Refuses To Stand Still

by Eric Termuende

Leaders used to set the pace of change. Now change sets the pace for them. Strategic plans age quickly. Technologies evolve mid-deployment. Teams are asked to commit to destinations built on assumptions everyone privately knows may not hold.

And still, we keep reaching for certainty before we move.

Eric Termuende argues that this instinct has become one of the defining traps of modern leadership.

Rethink Workby Eric Termuende

Rethink Work

by Eric Termuende

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Featured Articles & Resources

Welcome to the Future Workplace

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