As Chief Nēxt Officer of ēMcDermott, Eric helps set NēXTpectations in life, career, finance and business. With his dynamic style and unique perspective, he starts conversations that help people tackle everything from big-life quandaries to everyday roadblocks. Through a steady stream of engaging content, his signature SkētchMaps™, and as vNotē and Keynotē speaker, Eric shares how to get unstuck, get ahead, and shorten the cycle-time to success.

As a public speaker, Eric is sought after on topics of business innovation and financial strategies. Recent events include speaking from mainstage to thousands of business leaders on changing the industry for “What’s Next,” as well as international speaking events in Bangkok and Taipei. Eric also speaks for organizations and teams where he shares competitive strategies for a rapidly changing marketplace. Some of his speaking includes frequent presentations across the country to business leaders and CEO groups on financial organizational strategies. For years, Eric has led presentations for audiences across dozens of companies, on personal strategies for getting financially organized.

Eric has a special passion presenting for non-profits on advanced planned giving strategies for attracting more frequent and larger donors to worthwhile causes. Having been personally impacted by the power of non-profits in his own upbringing, from Big Brothers/Sisters as a child, to his mother’s decade-long battle with breast cancer, he holds a special passion for elevating the impact of non-profits through financial strategies.

As an entrepreneur, business owner, partner, and executive across multiple enterprises, Eric leads advanced financial strategies, new initiatives, operational strategy, and enterprise marketing. He holds multiple advanced financial designations, and focuses on connecting professionals, business leaders with strategies to help impact their financial efficiency, enterprise value, net worth, and estate.

Eric commits to hundreds of hours a year of continuous learning, mobilizing and inspiring change and innovation through original content and public speaking, and loves mentoring those around him. For fun, he enjoys family vacations, time with his wife, three children, reading, designing, sketching, and tennis.