Overview: Leaning into the power of awkward can be a game changer for our private lives, our corporate and community culture, and our bottom line.

Expect to laugh, cry, cringe and to come out with a new appreciation for the uncomfortable.

Best Audiences: Appropriate for high schools, colleges, conferences, and corporate settings.

Learning Outcomes: 

- Reframe "awkward" moments from cringeworthy flashback-fodder into usable data.

- Understand how to analyze and integrate that data into day-to-day operations.

- Gain insight into potential tactical value of challenging of your comfort zones in a targeted way.

Overview: Gossip, chisme, tea, yapping - whatever you call it, it's probably been framed as uncouth, unacceptable, or even sinful. But history tells us something very different.

In this talk Erica spotlights moments when chisme changed the world and uncovers the community organization, activism, support, and security at the heart of "good gossip."

Best Audiences: Appropriate for middle schools, high schools, colleges, interest groups, and women's groups.

Learning Outcomes:

- Differentiate between "good gossip" and just "talking trash."

- Identify when a secret is safe to keep and when it's a must-tell situation.

- Playfully explore the role gossip has played in some major historical moments.

- Understand how information sharing can shape the current and future world on both a personal and larger scale.

Overview: The people have spoken, generative AI is not the vibe. OK so now what?

Here, Erica examines the AI backlash & burst in detail. What do people hate and why? What do business owners do with that information? How does a company adapt to the ever-changing court of public opinion?

Best Audiences: Appropriate for commerce groups, business owners, entrepreneurs, and corporate education.

Learning Outcomes:

- Understand the psychology behind the AI backlash.

- Apply that understanding to the current framework of your business to decide where AI use is or is not appropriate. 

- Build a human-centered, backlash-resistant plan for your company. 

Overview: Growing up autistic in the church is a wild ride. Filled with big doses of heart and humor, Erica walks the audience through her experiences with confusion, awkwardness, education, and abuse within the church. This talk challenges listeners to re-examine the interplay between religion, faith, and neurodivergence.

Best Audiences: Appropriate for women's groups, faith-based groups, neurodivergence-centered groups, etc.

Learning Outcomes:

- Identify and understand some common aspects of autism and other neurodivergences.

- Examine how those differences might affect the impact and internalization of some sermons.

- Lay the foundation for a more informed approach as it pertains to neurodivergence and the church.