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Erica Dhawan
WSJ-Bestselling Author of Digital Body Language | Authority on 21st-Century Collaboration & Connectional Intelligence | Founder & CEO of Cotential
Erica Dhawan is the world's leading authority on 21st-century collaboration and the expert who taught organizations to read "digital body language." A WSJ-bestselling author and founder of the consultancy Cotential, she was named "the Oprah of Management Ideas" by Thinkers50. On stage, she gives teams practical, high-energy tools to build trust, break down silos, and connect across any distance in the age of AI.
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Erica Dhawan biography
Erica Dhawan is the world’s leading authority on 21st-century collaboration and the author who taught organizations to read “digital body language.” An award-winning keynote speaker and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, she helps leaders and teams innovate faster and further, together, by mastering the new signals, cues, and habits that build trust and connection across any distance, screen, or divide.
Leadership speaker Erica Dhawan is best known for two influential ideas. In Get Big Things Done, she introduced “Connectional Intelligence,” the ability to combine the relationships, ideas, and resources already around you to create breakthrough results, a concept as consequential to this era as emotional intelligence was to the 1990s. In her Wall Street Journal bestseller Digital Body Language, she decoded how the subtle cues we once conveyed in person, tone, timing, punctuation, response speed, now play out on email, Slack, and video, and how misreading them quietly erodes trust and productivity.
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Founder and CEO of the global consultancy Cotential, Dhawan has spoken and consulted worldwide for organizations ranging from the World Economic Forum to Fortune 500 companies, associations, sports teams, and governments. Thinkers50 dubbed her “the Oprah of Management Ideas,” and Global Gurus has named her among the world’s top management experts. A former research fellow at Harvard and MIT, she holds an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School, an MBA from MIT Sloan, and a BS from the Wharton School, and her writing appears regularly in Harvard Business Review and Fast Company. Her current work focuses on how teams can collaborate, lead, and build genuine human connection in the age of AI and hybrid work.
As a speaker, Erica Dhawan delivers high-energy, research-backed keynotes that leave audiences with practical tools they can use immediately. She speaks on modern teamwork and collaboration, digital body language and communicating across distance, leadership and connection in the age of AI, and breaking down the silos that slow organizations down. Known for interactive sessions that get entire rooms engaged, sometimes through her signature Bollywood dance, she turns the abstract challenge of “how we work together” into concrete habits that build trust, speed, and innovation.
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Humans have always relied on body language to build trust, but most of our communication now happens through a screen, where those signals disappear. Drawing on her bestseller, Dhawan decodes the new cues that have replaced them: reading carefully is the new listening, writing clearly is the new empathy. Audiences leave with concrete rules to eliminate miscommunication and build trust across email, chat, and video.
We tend to associate success with speed and smarts, but in a hyperconnected world, those aren't enough. Dhawan introduces Connectional Intelligence, the ability to harness the relationships, ideas, and resources around you to drive breakthrough results. This high-energy session shows teams how to become "superconnectors" who break down silos, accelerate innovation, and turn collaboration into measurable impact.
As AI reshapes how work gets done, the human skills of connection, trust, and collaboration matter more than ever. Dhawan shows leaders how to build 21st-century teams that thrive in a digital-first, AI-driven world, blending the best of human and machine, and explains why the leaders who master this shift will redefine performance.
Endless meetings, buried emails, and cross-team dysfunction quietly drain organizations. Dhawan gives leaders a practical playbook for purposeful collaboration, reducing duplication and delays, sharing expertise across silos, and improving the speed and quality of work, so teams spend less energy figuring out how to work together and more energy getting big things done.
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FAQs on Booking Erica Dhawan
Why Erica Dhawan?
Booking Erica Dhawan gives audiences a high-energy, deeply practical expert on the challenge every modern organization faces: how to collaborate and connect when so much of work happens through a screen. A Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Digital Body Language and Get Big Things Done, named "the Oprah of Management Ideas" by Thinkers50, she blends cutting-edge research with engaging storytelling and interactive moments that get entire rooms on their feet. With degrees from Harvard, MIT, and Wharton and experience advising organizations from the World Economic Forum to the Fortune 500, she leaves audiences with tools they can apply the very next day to build trust, break down silos, and lead better in the age of AI. She is an ideal speaker for events on teamwork, leadership, communication, culture, and the future of work. To bring Erica Dhawan to your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
What is "digital body language"?
Digital body language is a concept popularized by Erica Dhawan in her Wall Street Journal bestselling book of the same name. It refers to the cues, response time, punctuation, emojis, formatting, word choice, video presence, that shape how our messages are interpreted online, replacing the tone, eye contact, and posture we rely on in person. Dhawan argues that in a digital-first world, how you communicate is as important as what you communicate, and that learning to read and send these signals well is essential to building trust and avoiding costly misunderstandings.
What is Connectional Intelligence?
Connectional Intelligence is the central idea in Erica Dhawan's book Get Big Things Done. It is the ability to combine the relationships, ideas, and resources already around you to create results that matter, turning people into "superconnectors" who break down silos and accelerate innovation. Dhawan describes it as being as consequential to today's workplace as emotional intelligence was in the 1990s.
What topics does Erica Dhawan speak on?
Erica Dhawan speaks on 21st-century collaboration and teamwork, digital body language and communicating across distance, Connectional Intelligence, and leadership and human connection in the age of AI. Her keynotes suit leadership, communication, culture, HR, and future-of-work events, and range from high-energy keynotes to interactive workshops. To book Erica Dhawan as a speaker, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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