IN-PERSON | Servant Leadership and the Power of Influence

Erin Herman empowers leaders to leverage change as a superpower so that they can take themselves and their organizations to new heights. For two decades, Erin has worked with Fortune 500 executive leadership teams across the globe to achieve global impact at scale. She has held executive leadership roles with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital-ALSAC and the United Nations Children's Fund, where she set the strategy for the global corporate partnerships program to achieve ambitious goals supporting the world’s most vulnerable children. Erin is responsible for securing one of the largest philanthropic commitments ever made to a children’s hospital: a $300 million, 10-year partnership.

One of Erin’s proudest developments was the “Learning Passport,” an online and mobile platform that enables continuous access to quality education, which she created in partnership with Microsoft and Cambridge University. The platform has educated children in more than 40 countries to date and was ranked among the 100 Best Inventions of 2021 by Time. In 2020, PMI ranked the platform as the 3rd Most Influential Project in the World. Through her work, she has traveled the world extensively, meeting with teams to inspire, cultivate, and collaborate on what is truly possible.

Erin has been a panelist at the United Nations General Assembly, a featured speaker at the Partner Summit in Memphis, Tennessee, and featured in the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Bloch School of Business Semi-Annual Publication.
 
Erin has lived and worked in China, Finland, Italy, and South Africa. She currently resides in the Kansas City metropolitan area with her husband, daughter, and son.