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Eric Solomon
Artificial Intelligence
Behavioural Science
Business Strategy
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.
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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.
Topics, sessions and talks
As AI accelerates, the greatest threat to progress may not be the machines, but losing touch with what makes us human. Dr. Eric Solomon shares his See. Choose. Act. framework to help leaders reclaim intention, agency and clarity in times of change. Drawing on decades of experience across tech, psychology and strategy, he reorients audiences around purpose so they can lead with conviction in a world that rarely pauses.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Eric Solomon delivers sessions built around named frameworks, most notably his See. Choose. Act. model, which he applies to leadership decision-making under conditions of rapid technological change. He draws on his background in cognitive psychology and his direct experience at platforms such as YouTube, Spotify and Instagram to ground abstract concepts in operational examples, including findings from Google's People Analytics group on psychological safety and team cohesion.
Dr. Eric Solomon speaks on human leadership in an AI-accelerated world, leveraging human skills in a digital environment, and the behavioural science of high-performing teams. He holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology and spent fifteen years building brands at YouTube, Spotify, and Instagram, and is the creator of The Human Operating System.
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