- Cognitive psychologist and brand strategist
- Brand builder at YouTube, Spotify, and Instagram
- Creator of The Human Operating System
Dr. Eric Solomon is a cognitive psychologist and brand strategist who helps leaders and organizations find clarity, make better decisions, and stay human in a world accelerating faster than we were built to handle.
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.
Dr. Eric's Showreel and Videos
Topics, Sessions and Talks
Robots Are Here. But Are We?
Your Guide to Leveraging Human Skills in a Digital World
Technology now excels at mimicking human output, but not human depth. In this practical and engaging session, Dr. Eric Solomon explores how timeless qualities like empathy, curiosity and discernment are more valuable than ever. With stories from inside major tech platforms and psychological insight, he helps attendees rediscover the enduring edge of authentic human connection and how to bring it into every level of business.
The Art and Science of Teamwork
What really makes teams excel? Going beyond platitudes, Dr. Eric Solomon brings insights from Google’s People Analytics group to show how behavioral science can unlock lasting collaboration. He unpacks what psychological safety looks like in action and why belonging outperforms efficiency in the long run. Leaders will walk away with a new lens on how to build trust, cohesion and collective growth, team by team.
Develop an AI Strategy That Is Unique to Your Business
Many organizations adopt AI reactively or superficially. Dr. Eric Solomon, drawing on his leadership at Spotify and Google, shows how to create AI strategies anchored in identity and designed for impact. From the thinking behind Spotify’s Discover Weekly to lessons on scalable personalization, this session demystifies AI and equips leaders to build purposeful, differentiated strategies that work for their teams and users.
Tackling Professional Burnout
Chronic burnout is often treated as a personal failing, but it’s usually the result of systemic imbalance. Dr. Eric Solomon reframes burnout not as weakness but as data, offering science-backed tools and stories to help people reconnect with meaning in their work. With a distinctive mix of candor, research and empathy, he offers a path towards resilience that doesn’t ask us to do more, but to do what matters differently.
Why We Recommend Booking Dr. Eric
Eric's fifteen years inside YouTube, Spotify, Instagram, and Bonobos give him real operational credibility when navigating the pressures facing modern leaders. His Human OS framework delivers practical tools for clarity and judgment for teams navigating rapid transformation who need to maintain judgment and originality whilst accelerating decision-making.
Eric is one of the most inspiring, thought-provoking speakers I have ever met, grounded in the realities of navigating the corporate world while truly putting the human at the center. Truly motivating our teams to make a difference.
Jing Mertoglu, Global VP Insights & Analytics
Dr. Eric Solomon is the kind of person I look for to speak on my stage. He is dedicated to every step of the process and delivers a talk that makes you laugh, think, and fundamentally change your perspective. Eric is deeply knowledgeable about his subject area, and is able to relate complex concepts to audiences in an understandable way.
He brings clarity to complex ideas, and makes them useful. His background building brands at places like YouTube and Spotify means he's actually lived what he's teaching. People walk out of his sessions thinking differently about their work and their lives. He makes you want to "f**k up some commas." If you've seen him speak, you'll get the reference. And if you haven't: well, now don't you want to?
