Eric Solomon
Transform workplace culture with Dr. Eric Solomon, speaker, cognitive psychologist and tech executive. Eric works with CEOs and leadership teams to align values, behaviors, and communication, delivering science-backed strategies featured on TEDx stages and in Psychology Today.
New York, United States
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His approach is shaped by a career that spans both academic research and corporate innovation. He holds a Ph.D. in psychology with a focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco Medical School. After transitioning from academia into the tech industry, he led global brand strategy and people analytics at some of the most influential digital platforms of the modern era.
Today, Eric is the founder and CEO of The Human Operating System, a strategic platform designed to help individuals and teams align their values, behaviors, and communication. He works with CEOs, founders, and leadership teams to build cultures that are grounded, resilient, and clear in their purpose, especially in the face of uncertainty and technological change.
Eric’s work has been featured on TEDx stages and in publications like Psychology Today, and he serves on the boards of several nonprofit organizations. Through his advisory roles and public speaking, he continues to support teams and leaders in reconnecting with what makes them most effective: the human qualities that can’t be automated.
Blending a background in cognitive science with a deep understanding of brand, culture, and systems, Eric helps organizations navigate complexity with focus and intention. His work is rooted in the belief that lasting impact comes not from doing more, but from doing what matters—with clarity and integrity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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