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Erik Wahl

Graffiti Artist, Author, Entrepreneur & Philanthropist

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Erik Wahl is a globally acclaimed artist, TED speaker, and No. 1 bestselling author, recognized as one of the most sought-after corporate speakers of 2025. With a unique blend of artistry and entrepreneurial expertise, Erik delivers dynamic keynotes that inspire organizations to embrace creativity, innovation, and mental agility in a world where disruption is the new normal.

His bestselling book, The Spark and the Grind, has been praised as a transformative guide for turning ideas into action. Another of his best-selling books, Unthink, is hailed by Forbes as "The blueprint to actionable creativity" and by Fast Company as "provocative with a purpose."

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Erik Wahl Profile
Erik Wahl is a globally acclaimed artist, TED speaker, and No. 1 bestselling author, recognized as one of the most sought-after corporate speakers of 2025. With a unique blend of artistry and entrepreneurial expertise, Erik delivers dynamic keynotes that inspire organizations to embrace creativity, innovation, and mental agility in a world where disruption is the new normal.

His bestselling book, The Spark and the Grind, has been praised as a transformative guide for turning ideas into action. Another of his best-selling books, Unthink, is hailed by Forbes as "The blueprint to actionable creativity" and by Fast Company as "provocative with a purpose."

Drawing inspiration from street art, Erik became an acclaimed graffiti artist, using his talents to raise funds for charitable causes. His performances seamlessly integrate his passion for art and business, leaving audiences both inspired and empowered.

Erik has collaborated with leading organizations such as AT&T, Disney, London Business School, Microsoft, FedEx, ExxonMobil, Ernst & Young, and XPrize. To date, he has delivered over 1,500 keynotes worldwide, captivating audiences with his innovative perspective.

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The Art Of Vision

The Art Of Vision
The best sustainable edge in business is the ability to differentiate yourself from your competition. Through this entertaining and highly practical program, we will uncover new ways to make your organization more creative, innovative and profitable, but more-so, help your employees to see the need to become better storytellers within your company and towards your industry.

By embracing innovative strategies, professionals at all levels can achieve superior levels of performance by creatively and visibly differentiating themselves from the competition. No matter what kind of organization you have—from a small company to a large corporation—employees at all levels will better able to embrace the future by becoming more innovative, more productive and ultimately more profitable.

Organizational Excellence:
• Differentiation, Differentiation, Differentiation
• Telling a Better Story
• Outthinking the Competition

Embracing Change:
• Working Smarter, Not Harder
• Sustaining Excellence in a Changing Economy
• Leveraging Chaos to Capitalize on Opportunities

The Art of Leadership

The Art of Leadership
Today's leaders face a pressure to innovate—or else perish—unlike any other time in history. Advances in social, mobile and cloud technology, coupled with fierce global competition has made the business landscape nearly unrecognizable from what it was a mere 10 years ago.

Erik Wahl's entertaining and invigorating Art of Leadership presentation paints a compelling new portrait for what the successful leaders of tomorrow will look like. He inspires audiences to shed old ways of thinking and "business as usual" processes that are outdated, inefficient and detrimental to productivity. Audience members learn new ways to build an emotional connection to drive future employee engagement. Erik's presentation stretches traditional assumptions on leadership. The end results include:

– innovative solutions to further your organization
– attracting and engaging quality employees
– new efficiencies and the end of detrimental redundancies

Growth and comfort cannot co-exist. When leaders come from a place of authenticity, curiosity, exploration and purpose, this leads to more meaningful connections among team members and with clients and customers—and ultimately, a more profitable organization. An engaged employee equals an engaged customer.

UNthink

UNthink
Somehow we've come to believe that creativity is reserved for the chosen few: the poets, the painters, the writers. The truth is bigger and better than that. Creativity is in all of us. We simply need to rediscover the keys that will unlock our potential. UNthink is the keynote experience that will push members of your organization beyond their traditional thought patterns and habitual levels of performance. UNthink will inspire audiences to realize they are capable of so much more than they have been led to believe.

The UNthink program helps reframe your organization's thinking so that new creative actions become possible. Learning how to UNthink will inject your daily grind with new passion, allowing employees to see how the organization wants and needs all of their talents and energies, not just the ones they've been using so far. You'll begin the process of rethinking your life as a blank canvas of limitless opportunity on which to create your masterpiece.

This program will allow your organization to:
1. Step outside convention to discover new and unexpected solutions to business challenges
2. Challenge pre-conceived notions about what's possible
3. UNthink your way to increased creativity, productivity and passion

The Spark and The Grind

The Spark and The Grind
It's one thing to understand the importance of creativity to the success of your business, but what most people don't understand is to how to put a structure in place so that innovation can find its way. The paradox of creativity is that structure creates freedom. Even the wildest minds require extreme orderliness and attention to detail so that they have the space and discipline to create.
Consider:

– Beethoven sat down everyday at daybreak, regardless of season, and composed until 3:00pm.
– Kafka started writing at 11:30pm each night.
– Mozart taught lessons by day and composed only in the evenings.
– Picasso ate lunch each day with his family in silence and only allowed visitors one day per week.
– Mark Twain awoke at 5:30 am, ate a hearty breakfast, and wrote until 5:00 pm.

This program will allow your organization to:

1. Deconstructs the discipline of the creative process to ignite ideas to action.
2. Explores The Psychology of Success and the Science of Innovation to achieve superior levels of performance.
3. Harness The mental toughness required to navigate ambiguity and master complexity in a rapidly changing business environment
4. Disruption is the new normal. Are you creating or reacting?

Virtual Presentations:

Virtual Presentations:
Full Customized Keynote
The full length customized keynote is professionally produced and filmed in a studio in San Diego. The keynote is captured with 3 cinema level cameras and then professionally edited into a visually beautiful and powerful film to be delivered to you for use in digital format. The 3 paintings Erik creates during his keynote, will be shipped to you post production. This film is the yours to present at your virtual event, and then to re-share internally for up to one calendar year.

All of Erik's virtual topics are fully customized to your group's specific needs, topics include:

• Shift Happens: Constant Creativity Through Chaos
Erik helps audiences to reframe change, embrace the positive, and leverage their creativity. This pandemic will be remembered as a seminal moment in history, the major disruption of our lifetime. Erik's messages will use examples of how successful entrepreneurs and inventors built something from nothing, and give audiences the tools to do the same.

• Disruption = Innovation
Our greatest growth happens on the border between chaos and order. In this presentation, Erik provides a history of innovation through disruption (Instagram, AirBnB, iPhone, Uber, AIDS, 9/11 and himself) and shows audiences how to spot and create opportunities to benefit their communities and their organizations.

• Building a Better Brand in the Time of Adversity
When the global economy has gone off the rails, it's time to rethink who you are and what you can offer to a new world. In this presentation, Erik discusses how to leverage your digital and human capital to emerge stronger and more authentically than ever before.

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Please note this option does not include Erik performing paintings.

20 minute customized TED style talk for your audience. Based on the customization questionnaire, (attached) the keynote is specifically tailored for your audience. Customization starts with a conference call between you and our team to discuss the meeting in detail. Based on the customization call and questionnaire, Erik creates the keynote to address your audience, the theme of your meeting, as well as providing actionable takeaways for your attendees. This keynote is filmed in Erik's home studio.

* included is a downloadable copy of our innovation boot camp, available to each member of your audience.

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