About Erika
Still learning. Still listening. Still becoming.
Erika X. Driscoll is a keynote speaker, author, performance poet, Navy veteran, and management professional who shares lessons drawn from lived experience with fear, identity, and presenting in public.
Authenticity does not require giving every private part of a life to the public.
Her work
A voice shaped across stage, page, and practice.
Erika’s perspective has been formed in places where words and actions both carry weight: military service, management and leadership, poetry, and the live exchange between a speaker and an audience.
She shares what her own lived experience has taught her about recognizing fear, examining its assumptions, and speaking in public even when fear is still present.
Those experiences become stories, practical questions, and lessons that listeners and readers can consider in the circumstances of their own lives.
A continuing practice
Speaking and writing are connected parts of Erika’s work. A keynote can make an idea immediate in a room; a memoir can give a reader time to remain with it; a poem can hold an image or contradiction without rushing to resolve it. Across those forms, Erika’s purpose is not to prescribe a perfect life. It is to invite closer attention to the lives we are already living.
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Organizer biography
Erika X. Driscoll
Erika X. Driscoll is a keynote speaker, author, award-winning poet, Navy veteran, and management professional. Through literary storytelling, she shares lessons from her lived experience with fear, identity, integrity, leadership, and presenting in public. Her presentations invite audiences to consider how fear influences decisions, question inherited assumptions, and recognize capability and worth in their own lives.