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Download all bios as textEric McDermott is a business leader, financial strategist and international keynote speaker who makes complexity actionable so organizations can move together, move faster and outcompete.
Eric McDermott is a business leader, financial strategist and international keynote speaker. A Managing Equity Partner at Pacific Advisors with more than 25 years in complex business environments, he uses his proprietary SketchMaps® to turn complicated ideas into frameworks people can understand, remember and act on. He has delivered three TEDx talks and written three best-selling books.
Eric McDermott is a business leader, financial strategist and international keynote speaker who has spent more than 25 years working in complex business environments. He is a Managing Equity Partner at Pacific Advisors, a financial services firm serving more than 60,000 clients, and holds eight advanced financial designations, including CFP® and ChFC®.
Through his proprietary SketchMaps® and visual storytelling, Eric breaks complicated subjects down into memorable, actionable frameworks. He has delivered three TEDx talks across the USA, Europe and Asia, written three best-selling books, published numerous articles in Forbes and built a following of more than half a million people on TikTok. He describes his work as mobilization, not motivation.
Eric McDermott is a business leader, financial strategist and international keynote speaker who has spent more than 25 years working in complex business environments and turning complicated ideas into practical action. As a Managing Equity Partner at Pacific Advisors, a financial services firm serving more than 60,000 clients, Eric has first-hand experience of what happens when information, competing priorities and complexity get in the way of clear decisions and coordinated action. Today, he brings those lessons to organizations around the world, helping leaders and teams cut through the noise, understand what matters most and mobilize around it.
He holds eight advanced financial designations, including CFP®, TPCP®, WMCP®, RICP®, ChFC®, CLU®, CEPA® and CLTC®, and his career has spanned business ownership, marketing, leadership, strategy and team development. Through his proprietary SketchMaps®, he breaks complicated subjects down into memorable, actionable frameworks, helping audiences see connections, priorities and next steps that previously felt difficult to grasp.
Eric has built a following of more than half a million people on TikTok, been named National Best Business Influencer of the Year, written three best-selling books, published numerous articles in Forbes and delivered three TEDx talks across the USA, Europe and Asia. He describes his work as mobilization, not motivation.
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Eric McDermott is a business leader, financial strategist and international keynote speaker who has spent more than 25 years working in complex business environments and turning complicated ideas into practical action. As a Managing Equity Partner at Pacific Advisors, a financial services firm serving more than 60,000 clients, Eric has first-hand experience of what happens when information, competing priorities and complexity get in the way of clear decisions and coordinated action. Today, he brings those lessons to organizations around the world, helping leaders and teams cut through the noise, understand what matters most and mobilize around it, so they can move together, move faster and outcompete.
Eric’s ability to simplify complexity was developed in an environment where getting things wrong has consequences. In financial services, he has spent nearly two decades helping business owners, executives and professionals navigate complex financial decisions and turn them into clear, coordinated strategies. He holds eight advanced financial designations, including CFP®, TPCP®, WMCP®, RICP®, ChFC®, CLU®, CEPA® and CLTC®.
But Eric’s expertise extends well beyond finance. His career has spanned business ownership, marketing, leadership, strategy and team development, giving him a practical understanding of how organizations work and, just as importantly, why they sometimes fail to move. He has taken the approaches he uses inside his own businesses and tested them across different organizations, roles and generations, distilling them into simple frameworks that people can actually use.
At the heart of Eric’s work is a distinctive form of visual storytelling. Through his proprietary SketchMaps®, he takes complicated subjects and breaks them down into memorable, actionable frameworks, helping audiences see connections, priorities and next steps that previously felt difficult to grasp. Audience feedback repeatedly comes back to the same point: they can now do something with an idea they previously struggled to act on.
That ability has earned Eric a substantial audience and international recognition. He has built a following of more than half a million people on TikTok, been named National Best Business Influencer of the Year, written three best-selling books, published numerous articles in Forbes and delivered three TEDx talks across the USA, Europe and Asia.
Eric describes his work as mobilization, not motivation. His aim is not simply to leave people inspired or thinking differently. He gives them a way to make sense of complexity, create shared understanding and take coordinated action.
Eric makes complexity actionable so organizations can move together, move faster and outcompete.
Introducing Eric on stage
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Our next speaker has spent more than 25 years working inside complex businesses, and he’s still doing it today, as a Managing Equity Partner at Pacific Advisors, a financial services firm serving more than 60,000 clients.
He has delivered three TEDx talks across the USA, Europe and Asia, written three best-selling books and built a following of more than half a million people on TikTok.
He doesn’t come to motivate us. He comes to mobilize us, with his SketchMaps®: simple frameworks that turn complicated ideas into something we can understand, remember and act on.
Please welcome Eric McDermott.
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Read about each keynoteTeam Amplifiers®
Actionable, easy-to-adopt practices for teams and leaders to align and outcompete.
Career Amplifiers™
The mindset, rule set, and action-set to get unstuck and get ahead.
Financial Amplifiers™
Uncommon insights to help achieve financial success in life or in business.
Sales Amplifiers™
Stop trying to have all the right answers and start working to have all the right questions.
Marketing Amplifiers™
What to say, show and do to attract a steady stream of customers in an ever-changing marketplace.
Communication Amplifiers™
Stronger communication builds trust inside and outside the organization. And with that trust value follows.
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