Erica Ehm

Erica Ehm is an entrepreneur, creator, and force for positive change. Drawing on years of experience as CEO and decades as an iconic television personality, Erica has earned a reputation as a powerful speaker, event moderator and host. From real life situtations, Erica provides tools to reframe challenges into opportunity to help individuals and businesses make the impossible possible. Her decades of hosting live television ensures Erica rocks every stage she speaks on.

Erica continues to inspire and reinvent after three decades in the public eye and her insights on courageous leadership and successful reinvention resonate in today's challenging landscape. +

Originally a MuchMusic television host, Erica’s is considered a pioneer in content marketing, social media and community building. She is founder of the digital agency Ehm & Co, and the YMC.ca platform serving the Canadian mom market. Under Erica’s leadership over 15 years, her companies have earned over a dozen prestigious marketing and leadership awards, including a Governor General’s Innovation Award nomination. Since her company was acquired, Erica remains on the team as Chief Innovation Officer.

She is co-founder of The InsideOut Initiative, a non-profit community MEpowering youth to learn, live and work from the inside out.

Erica continues to expand her multimedia portfolio as an author, journalist, playwright, awarding-winning songwriter, and sought-after speaker in the leadership space.

She recently co-produced and hosts the podcast, Reinvention of the VJ and co-wrote the kids’ musical series Outta The Books. --

Empowerment, motivation, practical solutions, and actionable behaviour. Every keynote is designed to inspire audiences to adopt a success mindset and make meaningful change to achieve their goals. Here are some of the popular topics Erica Ehm presents. Erica will customize any talk to suit your needs.

What MuchMusic in the 80’s Can Teach You About Innovation Today +

This entertaining keynote will take audiences back to the 80’s to discover the substantial and surprising business lessons we can all learn from the rise of MuchMusic from one of Canada's most innovative and iconic brands, to its dismal descent into irrelevance.

You’ll go behind the scenes with video and stories to discover key pillars of innovation that MuchMusic was built upon. You will learn how to implement these fundamental principles into your business today to win hearts and minds of stakeholders, and stay a step ahead in a quickly changing world.

Key takeaways include creating an internal culture of innovation, building loyal communities, the surprising value of DEI in any organization, how to retain employees, and steps to stay relevant in a tech obsessed world. --

Bold Face: Courageous Leadership in the Age of Entrepreneurship +

Both entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs alike will benefit from Erica’s motivating keynote filled with strategies to empower and embolden her audience to reach their goals by thinking differently. Erica’s successful career reinventions from television icon to award-winning publisher and marketer provides the backdrop for compelling storytelling and real-life scenarios that identify specific behaviour preventing us from reaching our potential. Audiences will walk away with practical, easy-to-implement solutions that will change an entrepreneur’s trajectory. -- 

Reinvention: How To Be A Step Ahead in a Changing World +

The average person will change careers between three and seven times in their lifetime. So much time and energy is now devoted to transitioning from one job to another. Technology is turning our world upside down. The life span of a career has become as short as our attention spans. As quick as you can say “Squirrel,” your job has become irrelevant. You’ve been downsized. Your skills are outdated. Or the career path you chose no longer suits you. All of us are in a forced state of constant reinvention. It’s time to take control. Erica taps into her journey of reinvention with an emphasis shifting to a Success Mindset with hands-on strategies for audience members to be proactive and create the life they want in our constantly changing world. --

Social for Good +

Aimed at businesses large and small, social media has become essential marketing tool for brands. Learn how businesses can leverage the fantastic potential of social media and avoid the dangerous minefields by using social for good. Topics include how the value of relationship marketing, how to grow an online community, customer service using social media, and curating a business profile to engage consumers. --

Stuck? This is How To Get What You Want +

Stuck? Unable to reach life goals? This energetic keynote will motivate you and your staff to take action and feel more in control of your future. Erica shares tales about her unusual upbringing, her years on MuchMusic, her entrepreneurial successes and how she created the life she wanted with her success mindset. Audiences will leave armed with strategies to change behaviour and a better understanding of what it takes to get what you want out of life. --

Moderator +

A panel’s success is directly connected to how well it’s moderated. Knowing the right questions to ask, having enough experience to control the conversation, and the experience to ensure each panelist is comfortable - all this is familiar territory for a media veteran like Erica. Equally qualified to lead conversations about music, media, motherhood and marketing and more, moderating is Erica’s specialty. --

Host +

When the host of an event is comfortable on stage, it relaxes an audience, confident they’re in good hands. When the host is able to think on their feet, a potentially dull event jumps to life. Having years of experience improving on live television, broadcasting live from locations around the world, Erica Ehm brings confidence and a down-to-earth elegance to every event she hosts. --