ERICA ISHIDA
KEYNOTE SPEAKER | EXECUTIVE COACH | CEO, YELLOW CEDAR GROUP
As machines grow more intelligent, leaders must grow more wise.
Erica speaks to executives and senior leaders about what leadership is for now that intelligence is no longer scarce.
Not another keynote about AI technology
Twenty-five years developing leaders through transformation. Four C-suite seats across multiple industries and every stage of company. A body of work, Leading from Wisdom, that gives leaders a practical framework for the shift happening in front of them.
Her talks are content-rich, built with interactive moments, and designed so that leaders leave with something they can use the next morning.
SIGNATURE KEYNOTE
Leading with Wisdom
Human-Centered Leadership in the Age of AI
FOR:
Executives, senior leaders, and founders leading transformation.
Artificial intelligence has given the world limitless intelligence. For the first time in the history of management, being the person with the best answer is not an advantage. It is a role a machine now performs better.
What AI cannot give is wisdom: the distinctly human capacity to hold a question that has no answer yet, to make meaning, to cultivate trust, and to bear the weight of a choice.
This keynote makes one argument. Leading from wisdom requires three layered shifts: in the energy a leader brings, the mindset they operate from, and the behaviors they bring to their teams.
MORE TOPICS
Survivor vs. Creator
The two mindsets every leader moves between, how survival mode quietly runs the show in high-achievers, and what becomes possible when you choose creation instead.
The Potential Era
The eras of work, how leaders need to adapt, and what the new conditions of leadership ask of us.
Healthy by Design
What a healthy organization looks like when it is designed for the AI era from the point of conception, not repaired later. For founders, investors, and leaders launching new ventures.
ABOUT ERICA
Erica Ishida works alongside senior leaders navigating consequential change, as coach, counsel, and strategic thought partner to executives in professional services, financial services, and high-growth companies.
She has held the seats she now advises: CEO, President, COO, and Chief of Staff, across multiple industries and every stage of company. She has made the decisions her audiences are making, with the same incomplete information and the same consequences attached.
Erica is founder and CEO of Yellow Cedar Group and creator of the Leading from Wisdom body of work, including the Potential Era™ framework, the Creator vs Survivor leadership model, and the Five Leadership Shifts, used with Fortune 500 executives, professional services firms, and leadership programs.
She holds a Master of Science in Positive Organization Development and Change from Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management, where she serves as part-time faculty, and is a certified executive coach.
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