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Keynote SpeakerErica Sosna

C-Suite Skills, Talent and Performance, Future of Work Expert & Creator of The Career Equation®

Transforming Careers, Retaining Top Talent, and Redefining the Future of Work... Read more

Biography

Erica Sosna is a globally recognised C-Suite speaker and thought leader on leadership, talent strategy and organisational performance. She works with senior leadership teams to turn talent, skills and career conversations into measurable organisational value using her proprietary framework, The Career Equation®. Her work equips executives to strengthen internal mobility, reduce costly churn and unlock latent talent in ways that drive commercial outcomes.

Through The Career Equation®, Erica helps executives understand where skills, performance, mobility and retention are being held back — and design practical ways to unlock them, reduce waste and strengthen business continuity. Her insights are practical, evidence-based and designed for leaders to embed lasting change rather than deliver one-off inspiration.

Her approach empowers everyone in the organisation to take ownership of their career by giving them a shared language and simple methodology for better, more productive career conversations.

Erica has delivered more than 200 high-impact keynotes and executive workshops for C-Suite and senior leadership audiences across global organisations, including Microsoft, Amazon, BP, Rolls Royce SMR, Dassault Systemes, Capital One, AXA, HSBC, Santander, Savills, Nomura, Thales, Walmart and Tetra Pak.

Her work has supported meaningful improvements across all career stages and job families, including a more than 300% increase in early-career retention, a 28% uplift in senior internal mobility over three years, and reduced bottom-line costs from unnecessary churn, brain drain and recruitment.

Erica is consistently praised for her clarity, rigour and ability to make complex strategic challenges accessible and actionable for senior audiences.

Erica is the author of The Career Equation (McGraw-Hill), Good Housekeeping’s careers expert, and co-host of The Career Equation Podcast, where she explores how leaders can build cultures that are both commercially strong and genuinely human.

“Erica changed how we think about talent. Her work gave us a practical framework that improved internal mobility and delivered results that, as CFO , I could measure.” CFO and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Capital One
“Strategic, insightful and highly practical. Erica helped our leadership team align on a clear career philosophy that strengthened performance and retention. The Career Equation is an exceptionally swift and effective model for talent at all stages of their career at Savills. ” EMEA CEO, Savills
“Erica’s keynote was a standout. She challenged our assumptions, gave us a usable model, and helped us see talent as a source of competitive advantage and helped them to own their career at Microsoft.” Senior Learning Consultant, Microsoft Aspire MBA Lead
“Rare combination of intellectual rigour and real-world practicality. Leaders left with tools they could actually use. Erica has enabled me as a leader to have valuable career conversations and, more importantly, see bottom-line positive results when individuals make choices aligned with their strengths and passions. ” Strategic People Leader , Dassault Systemes

Popular Talks by Erica Sosna

  • The High-Value Conversation You’re Missing — and the Money It’s Costing You

    Most organisations obsess over budgets, headcount and roles but underinvest in the quality of career conversations that actually drive performance, retention and internal mobility. In this highly practical keynote, Erica reveals the hidden costs of poor career conversations and shows leaders how to turn talent into a measurable source of...

  • The Career Equation®: A Leadership Framework for Performance, Mobility and Growth

    The future of performance is not just about technology. It’s about how organisations understand and deploy skills. In this session, Erica introduces The Career Equation® as a strategic decision tool for leaders. Through real-world examples from global organisations, Erica demonstrates how The Career Equation® shifts conversations from “what roles do...

  • Defining Your Organisation’s Career Philosophy (and Why It Matters)

    Every organisation has a career philosophy, whether it is intentional and conscious or not. We want our people to do well and to see their future with us. The problem is that many leaders don’t have a clear, consistent approach to how people develop, move and grow. This is a...

  • From Talent Risk to Talent Advantage: How Leaders Drive Internal Mobility

    Many organisations spend millions on recruitment while failing to fully utilise the skills they already have. Using The Career Equation®, she provides a practical roadmap for turning internal mobility from a policy into a performance lever.