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Eric Solomon
Dr. Eric Solomon helps organizations stay distinctive and human as AI accelerates the work. A cognitive psychologist and AI leadership speaker, Eric has spent fifteen years building brands at YouTube, Google, Spotify, and Instagram, and founded The Human Operating System.
Dr. Eric Solomon is a cognitive psychologist and brand strategist who helps leaders stay distinctive and human as AI accelerates the work.
Eric holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology and spent fifteen years building brands at YouTube, Google, Spotify, Instagram, and Bonobos. He teaches at Fordham's Gabelli School of Business, writes for Harvard Business Review and Psychology Today, and is the founder of The Human Operating System. His first book, DRIFT: How to Live an Intentional Life in a World That Wants to Choose for You, is forthcoming from St. Martin's Press.
Eric's work sits where psychology, strategy, and leadership meet. He helps teams see where judgment is getting built into their systems, decide what their work is actually for, and keep hold of their choices as defaults and automation pile up. Recent audiences include leaders at Suntory Global Spirits, ISACA, and the Council of Europe, along with a TEDx stage.
Audiences walk away with a shared language for moving from "more" to "better," practical ways to protect 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.
Book Eric when your audience needs to think clearly about AI, attention, and the choices that still belong to people.
Topics, sessions and talks
Every organization is optimizing for faster output, more content, and more experiments, and entire categories now look and sound the same. Drawing on fifteen years inside YouTube, Google, Spotify, and Instagram, Dr. Eric Solomon shows leaders how the pursuit of more produces sameness, and what it takes to hold a standard while the pace keeps rising. Audiences leave with a shared language for deciding what their work is actually for and where to set the bar.
AI has made every organization faster at producing the same thing, so access to the tools has stopped being the advantage. Dr. Eric Solomon argues that judgment is what still sets organizations apart, and that it has quietly moved from the moment of review to the moment of configuration. Leaders who buy and deploy the technology leave with a way to see where judgment is encoded in their systems, who encodes it, and who is exposed when it fails.
Nobody decides to drift. It happens through a thousand small defaults, each reasonable on its own. Drawing on his book DRIFT: How to Live an Intentional Life in a World That Wants to Choose for You (St. Martin's Press), Dr. Eric Solomon maps the five currents that pull people and organizations off course: meaning, urgency, performance, the feed, and AI. Audiences leave with the capacities to navigate each current and keep hold of their own direction.
What makes a team work is whether people believe they can speak up without paying for it. Dr. Eric Solomon draws on Amy Edmondson's research on psychological safety and his years running teams inside YouTube, Google, Spotify, and Instagram to show what that looks like in practice, and why belonging sustains performance over time. Leaders leave with a clearer sense of what they are actually measuring when they measure a team, and how to build the conditions for candor.
Dr. Eric Solomon's fifteen years building brands at YouTube, Google, Spotify, Instagram, and Bonobos, combined with his advisory and executive coaching work, give him operational credibility on AI and leadership. For teams moving fast, that means practical tools for keeping judgment and originality intact.
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Dr. Eric Solomon builds his talks around named frameworks, such as the five currents that pull people and organizations off course (meaning, urgency, performance, the feed, and AI), and grounds them in examples from fifteen years building brands at YouTube, Google, Spotify, and Instagram.
Dr. Eric Solomon specializes in resisting AI-driven sameness, protecting judgment as AI speeds up decisions, staying intentional amid digital drift, and the psychology of teamwork. He holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, spent fifteen years building brands at YouTube, Google, Spotify, Instagram, and Bonobos, and founded The Human Operating System.
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