Erin Thorp

Erin Thorp

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Calgary, Alberta

Compassionate Leadership | Team Communications | Corporate Culture Expert

  • Videos
  • Expertise
    • Business & Corporate
    • Business Management
    • Business Ethics & Values
    • Business Leadership
    • Communication
    • Diversity & Inclusion
    • Health & Human Performance
    • Leadership and Change
    • Resilience & Change

    ERIN THORP BIOGRAPHY

    Erin Thorp is an empathic keynote speaker, author, and coach for professionals struggling with conflict, communication, and performance during high-stress times. Erin Thorp is a dynamic, relatable, and engaging speaker inspiring leaders to navigate difficult conversations, build powerful teams, and make an impact using empathy. With 20 years working in a male-dominated engineering and construction industry, leading teams and delivering projects, Erin Thorp noticed that her colleagues were highly skilled and cared deeply about their work, but most were incapable of fully holding their own emotions and therefore unable to hold the emotions of others.

    Early in her career, people told Erin, “You’re too emotional! You gotta be tough and get a game face.” After years of unsuccessful attempts to ‘fix’ and ‘get rid of’ her emotions, Erin Thorp decided to get curious about what these emotions might be trying to tell her. Erin Thorp found that her leadership superpower was her emotions. In fact, it was her empathy that served as a powerful and effective tool to lead high-performing teams. Emotional intelligence and technical excellence aren’t mutually exclusive — both skills are imperative to becoming a confident, compassionate leader a team will eagerly follow.

    Erin Thorp has a Civil Engineering Degree from the University of Calgary and is an Associate Certified Coach through Integral Coaching Canada. Her first book, Inside Out Empathy, was published in 2017. Erin Thorp presents keynotes that touch on the fact that there are currently five generations in our workforce from various socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds working together towards common goals. To build high-performance teams, ones that leverage diversity and foster a sense of belonging, we need to embrace our least-talked-about superpower — empathy.

    As an engineer turned speaker, Erin Thorp gets it. She brings jam-packed sessions with actionable strategies, hilarious stories, and relatable anecdotes to come back to long after the discussion ends. Below you’ll find five topics Erin Thorp would love to bring to your group. These are starting points, and every talk is fully customizable for your audience. Erin Thorp holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Calgary and is an Associate Certified Coach through Integral Coaching Canada. She currently lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, with her husband and their three children — where they aren’t afraid to talk about their feelings.

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    Erin Thorp Topic Presentations

    Leading With Empathy

    Building Better Teams

    Tackling Tough Conversations With Confidence

    Authenticity and Success for Purposeful Work

    The Art of Meaningful Feedback

    Positive Feedback and Recognition

    Burnout-proof Your Life

    Erin Thorp Speaking Testimonials

    We were lucky enough to engage Erin to speak about Empathic Leadership at our 2020 IWD Event. Erin’s passion for Empathy and Leadership was infectious, and that, combined with her authenticity, made her message relatable, relevant and impactful. We all left the session inspired and wanted more, leading to a return engagement to follow up on tips and tricks to add empathy into the workplace. Given the global events that soon after unfolded, the the timing and message of her speech resonated even more with the audience and helped us all put empathy into practice at work and home as the pandemic took hold of the world.

    Trisha Gibson

    SVP, Strategy & Business Development
    AltaGas Ltd

    Erin Thorp Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Erin Thorp Keynote Speaker delivers customized and tailored keynote presentations, workshops, and training sessions on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique and are designed for a variety of audiences, industries, conferences, and event formats.

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