Elizabeth Edwards

Keynotes · Workshops · Leadership briefings

Change how they see it.
Elevate how they do it.

Bring your audience a deeper understanding of people, communication, influence, and intelligence—with practical implications for the work they do next.

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Elizabeth in different speaking settings

Elizabeth Edwards gesturing while speaking at SPRF
SPRF conference teaching.
Elizabeth Edwards speaking on a blue-lit stage in Nashville
Nashville stage archive / 2021.
Elizabeth Edwards leading a communication workshop with an audience
Communication workshop.

For conferences, associations & leadership teams

More than a new idea.
A different way to practice.

Elizabeth speaks at the intersection of communication science and real-world responsibility: how people make meaning, how influence works, and what changes when AI enters the encounter.

Her programs draw on her original behavioral and affective communication frameworks and 25 years of agency leadership. Choose a communication-science keynote, an ethical-persuasion session, or eye-opening AI education. Programs can also connect these areas around your audience’s needs.

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Frontier ideas.
Real human consequences.

Programs are shaped around your audience and the change you want the session to support.

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Affective Intelligence & communication excellence

The science of how communication changes people

People do not receive information in isolation. Explore how perception, instinct, affect, and context shape understanding and response—and what Elizabeth’s Affective Intelligence framework changes about how we communicate.

  • Look beyond the message to the conditions for comprehension, consideration, connection, memory, and motivation.
  • Identify more resonant ways to communicate change, explain complexity, and engage an audience.
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02

Ethical persuasion · Trust · Human agency

From reactions to relationships: the science of trust

A reaction is not a relationship. Examine the difference between persuasion that supports informed choice and tactics that exploit fear, manufacture urgency, or constrain agency.

  • Evaluate the experience a message creates alongside the action it seeks.
  • Build a more responsible approach to engagement, adoption, and ethical conversion.
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AI tools, skills & human capability

Frontier Intelligence: more intelligent use of AI

Eye-opening AI education for people ready to move beyond basic prompts. Discover sophisticated ways to investigate, think, communicate, and create—and expand the capability you bring to your own field.

  • Choose useful tools and turn complex assignments into reviewable stages of work.
  • Use your expertise to challenge assumptions, assess evidence, and judge the result.
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PR 3.0 · Reputation · AI-mediated meaning

The New Physics of Influence

Communication now has to account for people and the AI systems that interpret organizations for them. Connect human behavior, ethical influence, and signal architecture to understand what this means for reputation and public understanding.

  • Examine how AI represents your organization and investigate the sources behind an answer.
  • Reconsider communication leadership, evidence, and accountability in an intelligence-mediated world.
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Affective AI · Ethical responsibility

What is this interaction doing to the person?

Conversational AI can appear empathetic, confident, and attentive. Explore what these encounters mean for trust, human judgment, apparent understanding, and responsibility.

  • Distinguish a persuasive or reassuring interaction from a reliable, appropriate one.
  • Ask better questions about design, disclosure, oversight, and the preservation of choice.
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The right conversation.
The right format.

Keynotes

A consequential perspective that connects the theme of your event to the work your audience does.

Workshops

A working experience that helps participants apply ideas, practice skills, and make useful progress.

Leadership briefings

A focused conversation about the implications for your organization and its next decisions.

Watch Elizabeth speak & teach

See the teaching.
Picture it in your room.

Choose a session that connects with your audience. Videos open on request; you can also watch directly on YouTube.

AI keynote

More intelligent use of AI

A keynote example for organizers looking for eye-opening, practical AI education.

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Workshop for PR & strategic communication professionals

Behavioral communication in practice

See Elizabeth teach the connection between communication science and professional practice.

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Women in business keynote

Human possibility & professional growth

A motivational keynote example for women’s leadership and business audiences.

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MarTech Next conference keynote

Communication, influence & persuasion in the AI age

The science of communication and the standards of ethical influence as AI changes the encounter.

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For universities & academic programs

Bring the frontier
into the classroom.

Guest lectures and university workshops connecting communication science, Affective Intelligence, ethical influence, and sophisticated AI practice. Explore examples from Elizabeth’s Pepperdine guest teaching and shape a session for your students or faculty.

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Bring a new perspective to your next gathering.

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