Erik Wahl

Erik Wahl

Keynote Speaker: Internationally Recognized Graffiti Artist, Entrepreneur & Bestselling Author of "Unthink"

Erik Wahl Biography

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, Wahl 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 bestselling 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, Wahl 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.

Wahl 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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Erik Wahl Speaking Topics

The Art Of Vision

The best sustainable edge in business is the ability to differentiate yourself from the 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

Today’s leaders face a pressure to innovate—or else perish—unlike any other time in history. Advances in social, mobil 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

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:

  • Step outside convention to discover new and unexpected solutions to business challenges
  • Challenge pre-conceived notions about what’s possible
  • UNthink your way to increased creativity, productivity and passion

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:

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

Erik & Tasha Wahl: A Candid Conversation

Join Erik and Tasha Wahl for a dynamic, 60-minute curated Q&A exploring their journey of building a successful business, consulting for organizations worldwide, and navigating 30 years of marriage. With honesty and insight, they share lessons on growth, failure, resilience, and gratitude, offering a rare behind-the-scenes look at the intersection of creativity, entrepreneurship, and personal evolution.

Erik Wahl Videos

Erik Wahl Keynote Speaker Reel 2024
Erik Wahl - Keynote 2024
The Future of Virtual | Trailer - Erik Wahl

How do I book Erik Wahl to speak at my event?

Our experienced booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure speakers like Erik Wahl for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment since 2002. Click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page to check availability for Erik Wahl, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get speaking fee information and check availability for Erik Wahl or any other speaker of your choice.

How much does it cost to book Erik Wahl for a speaking engagement?

Speaking fees for Erik Wahl, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The estimated fees to book Erik Wahl are $50,000 - $100,000 for live events and $50,000 - $100,000 for virtual events. For the most current speaking fee to hire Erik Wahl, click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak directly with an experienced booking agent.

What topics does Erik Wahl speak about?

Erik Wahl is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Business, Inspirational, Success, Change Management, Business Leadership, Creativity, Personal Growth, Communication, Family & Parenting, Innovation, Sales, Human Resources, Motivational, Entrepreneurship, Peak Performance, Business Growth, Literacy, Authors, College, Education, Celebrity, Bestselling Authors, Leadership, Strategic Leadership and Art.

Where does Erik Wahl travel from?

Erik Wahl generally travels from San Diego, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances.

Who is the agent for Erik Wahl?

AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully secured keynote speakers like Erik Wahl for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Erik Wahl for your next private or corporate function.

What is a full-service speaker booking agency?

AAE Speakers Bureau is a full-service speaker booking agency, meaning we can completely manage the speaker’s or celebrity’s engagement with your organization from the time of booking your speaker through the event’s completion. We provide all of the services you need to host Erik Wahl or any other speaker of your choice, including offer negotiation, contractual assistance, accounting and billing, and event speaker travel and logistics services. When you book a speaker with us, we manage the process of hosting a speaker for you as an extension of your team. Our goal is to give our clients peace of mind and a best-in-class service experience when booking a speaker with us.

Why is AAE Speakers Bureau different from other booking agencies?

If you’re looking for the best speaker recommendations, paired with a top-notch customer service experience, you’re in the right place. At AAE Speakers Bureau, we exclusively represent the interests of our clients - professional organizations, companies, universities, and associations. We intentionally do not represent the speakers we feature or book. That is so we can present our clients with the broadest and best performing set of speaker options in the market today, and we can make these recommendations without any obligation to promote a specific speaker over another. This is why when our agents suggest a speaker for your event, you can be assured that they are of the highest quality with a history of proven success with our other clients.


Erik Wahl is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics including Business, Inspirational and Success. The estimated speaking fee range to book Erik Wahl for live events is $50,000 - $100,000, and for virtual events $50,000 - $100,000. Erik Wahl generally travels from San Diego, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Daymond John, Jesse Itzler and Cassandra Worthy. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Erik Wahl for an upcoming event.

Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 22/05/2025.

Erik Wahl Speaking Topics

  • The Art Of Vision

    The best sustainable edge in business is the ability to differentiate yourself from the 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

    Today’s leaders face a pressure to innovate—or else perish—unlike any other time in history. Advances in social, mobil 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

    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:

    • Step outside convention to discover new and unexpected solutions to business challenges
    • Challenge pre-conceived notions about what’s possible
    • UNthink your way to increased creativity, productivity and passion

  • 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:

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

  • Erik & Tasha Wahl: A Candid Conversation

    Join Erik and Tasha Wahl for a dynamic, 60-minute curated Q&A exploring their journey of building a successful business, consulting for organizations worldwide, and navigating 30 years of marriage. With honesty and insight, they share lessons on growth, failure, resilience, and gratitude, offering a rare behind-the-scenes look at the intersection of creativity, entrepreneurship, and personal evolution.

Erik Wahl Videos

Erik Wahl Keynote Speaker Reel 2024
Erik Wahl - Keynote 2024
The Future of Virtual | Trailer - Erik Wahl
Adapting To The New Normal - Virtual Keynote Experience | Erik Wahl

Erik Wahl Reviews

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Erik Wahl News

  • Erik Wahl keynote to close out Cardinal Health RBC 2016

    Cardinal Health RBC will host an eccentric keynote speaker as part of its closing session on Saturday, July 23 — just before attendees head home to implement all of the new tools they gained at this year’s conference in Chicago. Author, speaker, entrepreneur and graffiti artist, Erik Wahl comes to the Windy City with a reputation for getting business leaders to “unthink” everything they’ve ever thought about their customers and patients, recasting their focus to inspire new opportunities and reinvigorate business operations.

  • Well-known artist to help Jersey schools

    Internationally known graffiti artist and author Erik Wahl will pitch in to help raise money for the Jersey Community School District’s fine arts program, the school board was told Wednesday.

  • Famed Artist Erik Wahl Auctions Painting For Charity - Look to the ...

    Famed artist Erik Wahl created a painting at an event in West Hollywood in June 2013, which was a celebration to launch his new book 'UNthink.'

  • How do I book Erik Wahl to speak at my event?

    Our experienced booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure speakers like Erik Wahl for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment since 2002. Click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page to check availability for Erik Wahl, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get speaking fee information and check availability for Erik Wahl or any other speaker of your choice.
  • How much does it cost to book Erik Wahl for a speaking engagement?

    Speaking fees for Erik Wahl, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The estimated fees to book Erik Wahl are $50,000 - $100,000 for live events and $50,000 - $100,000 for virtual events. For the most current speaking fee to hire Erik Wahl, click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak directly with an experienced booking agent.
  • What topics does Erik Wahl speak about?

  • Where does Erik Wahl travel from?

    Erik Wahl generally travels from San Diego, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances.
  • Who is the agent for Erik Wahl?

    AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully secured keynote speakers like Erik Wahl for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Erik Wahl for your next private or corporate function.
  • What is a full-service speaker booking agency?

    AAE Speakers Bureau is a full-service speaker booking agency, meaning we can completely manage the speaker’s or celebrity’s engagement with your organization from the time of booking your speaker through the event’s completion. We provide all of the services you need to host Erik Wahl or any other speaker of your choice, including offer negotiation, contractual assistance, accounting and billing, and event speaker travel and logistics services. When you book a speaker with us, we manage the process of hosting a speaker for you as an extension of your team. Our goal is to give our clients peace of mind and a best-in-class service experience when booking a speaker with us.
  • Why is AAE Speakers Bureau different from other booking agencies?

    If you’re looking for the best speaker recommendations, paired with a top-notch customer service experience, you’re in the right place. At AAE Speakers Bureau, we exclusively represent the interests of our clients - professional organizations, companies, universities, and associations. We intentionally do not represent the speakers we feature or book. That is so we can present our clients with the broadest and best performing set of speaker options in the market today, and we can make these recommendations without any obligation to promote a specific speaker over another. This is why when our agents suggest a speaker for your event, you can be assured that they are of the highest quality with a history of proven success with our other clients.
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