Eric Herrera is a Vice President and Senior Consultant at Kolbe Corp — a dynamic business leader, team strategist, and growth coach who helps leaders unlock team performance with science-backed assessments that boost communication, collaboration, and results. Known for engaging, high-energy presentations, webinars, and training sessions, he turns people insights into revenue growth.
Eric Herrera is Vice President and Senior Consultant at Kolbe Corp, where he helps organizations improve team performance using Kolbe assessments. He is a keynote speaker, a Certified Vistage Speaker, and co-host of the Powered by Instinct podcast, with more than 15 years of experience in the talent assessment industry.
A Kolbe MO is a four-number result from the Kolbe A™ Index that describes how a person instinctively takes action. Eric Herrera’s 5-3-9-2 result makes Quick Start his strongest instinct, which means he naturally initiates change, improvises, and creates urgency around new ideas.
For clients, this shows up as energetic, idea-driven sessions that move quickly from insight to action. His moderate Fact Finder gives teams enough context to act without getting lost in detail. His low Follow Thru and Implementor mean he adapts easily to changing agendas and explains concepts through ideas and stories rather than rigid systems or physical models.
Eric Herrera speaks on using instinct-based strengths to improve productivity, teamwork, and leadership. His keynote and corporate facilitation topics include aligning goals with natural strengths, building high-performing teams, why common productivity advice often backfires, applying the Kolbe A™ Index at work and home, integrating AI without losing company culture, and leading through change. He delivers these as keynotes, webinars, and training sessions for businesses of all sizes.
Submit a request through Eric Herrera’s Kolbe booking page at m.kolbe.com/eric-herrera. Event planners can also download his speaker kit to review his profile and presentation topics before reaching out.
Eric Herrera treats this kind of friction as a mismatch in how people instinctively take action, not as a problem of attitude or skill. Personality assessments describe social style and preferences. The Kolbe A™ Index measures conation, the natural way each person initiates and completes work. A manager who needs structured plans and a rep who thrives on improvising can both be highly capable and still frustrate each other every day.
Working with Eric, team members complete the Kolbe A™ Index. He then uses the results to show where the team’s instincts align, where they collide, and where a mode of action is missing entirely. From there, he helps leaders adjust roles, communication, and expectations so people spend less energy working against their instincts, which is a common source of stress and burnout.
Eric also brings direct sales leadership experience. As a consultant for a large consumer electronics company, he implemented a sales and leadership development program that helped increase top-line revenue by $31 million. Within Kolbe Corp, he doubled sales and grew his team. Results vary by organization, but his focus stays practical: turning people insights into measurable performance.
Yes. Skeptical executive audiences are a good fit for Eric Herrera because the Kolbe A™ Index does not measure intelligence, personality, or emotional traits, and there are no good or bad results. It focuses on how each person naturally gets things done, which executives can check against their own experience right away. Eric’s background in sales and marketing leadership keeps his sessions grounded in business outcomes like productivity, communication, and revenue. His topics “Avoiding ‘Good’ Advice Gone Bad” and “Leading Through Change” are especially relevant for leadership teams.
Powered by Instinct is a global podcast co-hosted by Eric Herrera. It features conversations with executive leaders about building conative excellence, meaning using natural instincts to work more effectively. Past guests include leaders from Azure Standard, a Kolbe Enterprise Award winner.
Eric Herrera is an expert on using talent assessments to help professionals communicate, collaborate, and build more effective teams. As a Vice President and Senior Consultant at Kolbe Corp, he consults with businesses of all sizes and structures on how to spot talent and maximize productivity. He has held several marketing and sales leadership roles in the assessment industry and uses that expertise to turn people insights into revenue growth — as a leader within Kolbe Corp, Eric doubled sales, grew his team, and led a reorganization of his department, all by living the principles he sells.
Eric began his career in 2007 as a District Manager for Republic National Distributing Company, managing retail operations across multiple states. In 2010, he joined The Predictive Group, Inc. as an Associate, using predictive analytics and skill assessments to drive organizational success, and later became its Director of Marketing. He also founded his own consulting group, specializing in lifting sales performance, high-potential acceleration, and leadership development. As a consultant working with a large consumer electronics company, Eric implemented a sales and leadership development program that helped increase top-line revenue by $31 million. He has trained thousands of sales professionals and was the mastermind behind a six-month leadership training program for businesses.
Eric holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from the Indiana Institute of Technology and is a member of AZ Growth Advisors as well as a Certified Vistage Speaker. He is a co-host of the global Powered by Instinct podcast, where he has interviewed executive leaders from organizations like Azure Standard on building conative excellence. In his spare time, Eric enjoys SCUBA diving, hunting, and parenting his daughter with his wife.
Watch Eric Herrera break down his own 5-3-9-2 Kolbe result — and what it reveals about how a 9 in Quick Start naturally takes action.
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