Erik Wahl's success as a speaker and unique understanding of vision traces back to his training as an artist.

He holds a Bachelors degree from the University of San Diego where he studied both art and business. After first working in the business world and playing with his art, he now plays in the business world by working with his art.

He has founded The Wahl Group, a consulting firm specializing in helping organizations identify and implement breakthrough thinking to achieve extraordinary results. Erik's special blend of warmth, humor and experience helps audiences identify their unchallenged roadblocks to success. He is passionately committed to helping businesses explore new levels of vision and performance through creativity.

Using his amazing artistic skills as a vehicle, Erik is able to channel success strategies in a uniquely fresh and entertaining way. His painting seamlessly becomes a visual metaphor to the fabric of his message of creating a vision. At the dramatic conclusion of his program he turns the painting upside down to reveal a stunning portrait of lasting vision. His skill as an artist, a dynamic performer and a speaker will leave your audience with a message that is as memorable as it is impactful.

• The Art of Vision - As the landscape for business continues to change, a clear vision is the key to successfully navigating tomorrow's unchartered waters. The Art of Vision is a program specifically designed to help companies utilize unconventional wisdom and build a vision for their future. No matter what kind of organization - from small companies to large corporations - employees at all levels can better embrace the future by becoming more innovative. By breaking apart traditional thinking, Erik challenges and inspires his audiences to redefine commonly held assumptions and misconceptions about "creativity," "goals," "success" and "vision." Discover how you can sharpen your creative skills and identify a personal style for inspiring yourself and others to rethink vision and purpose. The principles in this uplifting and highly practical program will redefine the role of a leader as an artist as well as an architect.
  
  
• The Art of Vision Keynote Format - The keynote format of The Art of Vision is an entertaining, inspirational and intentionally unique program. The Art of Vision educates and inspires participants to understand the importance of expanding their own perceptions in an effort to build a strategic vision. The Art of Vision takes your company's vision to the next level and beyond. Erik's most requested format, this 45-60 minute keynote experience is ideally suited to kick off or close your meeting on a dynamic high note.
  
  
• Discovering Your Untapped Potential - This fast paced and highly interactive 90-minute workshop is designed to provide specific strategies to unleash personal and professional achievement through creativity. By exploring techniques to stretch our minds, audiences will uncover new methods to solve old problems, discover new opportunities, and ultimately differentiate themselves from their competition. This program is ideally suited as a follow up for audiences who have already experienced Erik's Art of Vision keynote.