HR TECHNOLOGY
The future of work will not be won by the company with the most features. It will be shaped by the teams people trust to
USE THEM WELL.
How Eric Termuende helps HR technology organizations connect innovation, adoption, employee experience, and the realities of modern work.
What’s needed now is something
DIFFERENT.
HR technology sits at the centre of enormous expectations. Buyers want efficiency and insight, employees want transparency and agency, and product teams are moving quickly through an AI-driven competitive cycle.
The differentiator is not technology alone. It is whether teams can learn quickly, earn trust, and build products and practices that make work better for the people experiencing them.
THE ADVANTAGE IS NOT PREDICTING EVERY TURN. IT IS BUILDING A TEAM THAT CAN RESPOND WELL WHEN THE TURN COMES.
THE CHALLENGE
01 Innovation outrunning adoption
New capability creates little value if users do not trust it, understand it, or have the capacity to change how they work.
02 The credibility gap
HR technology promises a better employee experience, yet the companies building it face the same culture, retention, and change challenges as their customers.
03 Speed without cohesion
Rapid growth and product pressure can fragment teams, blur ownership, and turn cross-functional collaboration into recurring friction.
THE MISDIAGNOSIS
Low adoption is often framed asa user problem. Frequently,…
it signals a trust, workflow, or relevance problem: people have not been shown how the tool supports their work, or the surrounding environment punishes experimentation.
You cannot process your way past a trust problem.
THE BLUEPRINT APPLIED
Build Trust
Create candour within teams and credibility with the people whose work the technology changes.
Remove Friction
Separate useful governance from process drag across product, sales, service, and people teams.
Experiment
Treat adoption as a learning loop built from small tests, honest feedback, and visible iteration.
KEYNOTES THAT FIT THE MOMENT
Blueprint to the Future
For audiences shaping the systems and experiences of tomorrow’s workplace.
Built for Uncertainty
For high-growth teams navigating rapid technical and market change.
Snowflakes and Fingerprints
For conversations about attraction, retention, and the employee experience beyond perks.
ERIC VS FIELD
What most speakers deliver
What you get with Eric
Talks about the future of work as a trend list
Explains how teams become ready for an unknowable future
Treats adoption as a product-marketing funnel
Addresses trust and behaviour inside the workflow
Offers broad culture platitudes
Connects culture to friction, experiments, and execution
Separates technology from humanity
Shows why each determines the success of the other
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is Eric’s content appropriate for an HR tech conference?
Yes. His research connects directly to workforce expectations, AI adoption, trust, retention, and the future of work.
Can he speak to a customer audience rather than employees?
Yes. The keynote can be positioned around the challenges HR and business leaders are trying to solve with technology.
Will the content feel too high-level for product and technical leaders?
No. The framework translates human dynamics into practical operating conditions: trust, friction, learning, and adoption.
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