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Erica Farmer
Helps organisations turn AI from something people are told to use into something they trust. An AI keynote speaker and future of work specialist, Erica was named an HR Top Mind and wrote AI for People Professionals.
Erica Farmer is an AI strategist, learning expert, and future of work specialist who focuses on the human side of AI. She helps organisations turn AI from something people are told to use into something they understand, trust, and use well.
Over 25 years, Erica has worked in learning and development inside UK organisations including LV=, British Gas, Specsavers, and Virgin Care. She's a TEDx speaker featured on TED.com, a returning keynote at LinkedIn Talent Connect, and author of AI for People Professionals. HR World named her an HR Top Mind.
While many AI speakers focus on what the technology can do, Erica focuses on what it takes for people to make it work. As co-founder of Quantum Rise and host of the AI for the Average Joe podcast, she shows leaders that the biggest AI challenge isn't the technology: it's helping people see how they shape the future of work.
Through her AI Dividend™ framework, Erica helps audiences find what AI gives back to them personally: more time, confidence, and headspace. Teams leave with practical ways to build trust and psychological safety around AI, and leaders leave knowing how to turn an AI strategy on paper into everyday adoption.
Book Erica to give your people a reason to use AI, not just an instruction to, and turn adoption into better ways of working.
Topics, sessions and talks
Erica Farmer reframes AI adoption around personal value rather than efficiency alone, helping people identify how AI can create more time, headspace, confidence, motivation and wellbeing in their own roles. She addresses a core barrier to adoption: people asked to embrace a technology they feel uncertain about, without enough trust, psychological safety or personal relevance. Attendees leave with a clearer sense of their own AI Dividend™ and a stronger, more personally grounded reason to engage with AI at work.
Erica Farmer tackles one of the most common reasons AI initiatives stall: too much focus on the technology and not enough on the people expected to use it. She shows how to build trust, capability and momentum by putting human experience, communication and behaviour change at the centre of implementation. Clients gain a clearer understanding of how to close the gap between an AI strategy on paper and genuine adoption in practice, reducing resistance and strengthening confidence along the way.
Erica Farmer examines the overlooked stage of AI adoption, where faster output collides with unchanged meeting rhythms, approval processes, and management capacity. She unpacks how the resulting backlog of content and decisions puts pressure on managers, without any guaranteed lift in productivity. Drawing on a practical, people-first perspective, Erica shows leaders, HR, OD, and learning and development teams how to redesign the pipework around AI, and build the judgement and communication skills that turn individual gains into lasting value.
Erica Farmer reframes AI as more than a productivity tool, showing how it can reduce friction, create structure, support better habits and free up mental energy. She addresses a growing challenge for stretched teams, where new technology can easily feel like one more thing to learn, manage, or fear. Clients get a more balanced, human-centred conversation about AI, helping people see how it can support focus, resilience and day-to-day effectiveness rather than simply driving more output.
Erica Farmer explores how AI is reshaping work and leadership, equipping women to engage with it from a position of confidence, influence, and visibility. She addresses a real commercial and cultural risk: if confidence with AI develops unevenly, existing visibility and progression gaps can widen. Clients get a session that inspires women to engage with AI more actively while supporting broader goals around leadership development, inclusion, and future-ready talent.
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Erica Farmer builds her talks around her AI Dividend™ framework, asking people what AI can give back to them personally, and can follow a keynote with a hands-on session where teams try tools like ChatGPT for themselves.
Erica Farmer's sessions cover finding your personal AI Dividend™, people-first AI implementation, the management pressure created when AI output outpaces existing processes, AI as a support for wellbeing, and helping women lead with AI. She brings 25 years in learning and development to the human side of AI, and is a TEDx speaker featured on TED.com and author of AI for People Professionals.
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