Nick is a sought-after, highly experienced, and powerful keynote speaker at the very top of his game. With almost 30 years of experience on the frontlines of disruption, he is a world authority on leading, embracing, and unleashing meaningful change, innovation, and transformation to adapt to the increasingly volatile, uncertain, and complex world. A seasoned professional futurist, he explores how to shape the Future of Work, Leadership, Business, and Healthcare. 

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Nick delivers electrifying, energizing, and hyper-engaging “Wow!” keynotes for informed and discerning companies, conferences, institutions, associations, and nations. Think Nike, LEGO, Unilever, HP, Neom, Pfizer, Google, and No.10 Downing Street.

 

His surprisingly unique keynotes—exquisitely customized to fit your brief and packed with original science-backed ideas, actionable Ah-HA! insights, and real-world examples—captivate hearts, dazzle even the smartest minds, and ignite concrete change. Nick’s talks can include takeaway tools and practical hacks that turn inspiration into action.

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A Cambridge-educated medical scientist and philosopher (Triple 1st/summa cum laude), Nick has spent three decades cracking the code of change (whether in the form of innovation, transformation, or leadership) while serving the growth of ambitious organizations like Virgin, PlayStation, and Novartis and walking the talk as a 10x purpose-driven entrepreneur. 

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A polymath who has relentlessly explored what makes people tick from every angle possible, Nick is markedly different from other speakers. His thinking and tools have been utilized to coach and train over 100,000 leaders in Fortune 500s, and he has designed and led 100+ breakthrough innovation programs for multinationals. He is a seasoned professional futurist with over 50 foresight projects under his belt, and he has founded 10 pathfinding and pioneering start-ups in the fields of change, leadership, empowerment, and transformation.

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Few speakers in the world have the depth and breadth of experience Nick has, both as a keynote speaker since the age of 15 and as a transformation catalyst who has worked with so many people—in such a wide variety of organizations and cultures—to empower them to do the most challenging things in life, leadership, and enterprise: to change, innovate, transform, and forge the future.

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Nick is profoundly passionate about sharing the fruits of a lifetime’s research, expertise, and coal-face experience to help audiences of all kinds embrace change as an opportunity for growth, lead the change they want to see, unlock breakthroughs in any area, sustain performance without losing their humanity, and blast through the barriers that predictably block innovation and transformation.

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He works hard—as a deep thinker yet warm-hearted speaker—to simplify complexity, reduce the paralysis of uncertainty, and take the pain out of change and transformation. He leaves audiences not just motivated, inspired, informed, and energized but tangibly moved to do things differently and empowered with practical tools to start the change today. With a restless commitment to generating an unprecedented ROI from speaking, he constantly innovates new speaking formats, such as experiential keynotes (90-120 mins) and interactive keynotes with a workshop session.

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Whether headlining a major conference, inspiring a customer/user event, or galvanizing a top 10-500 leadership event, Nick seeks to touch the hearts and minds of all attendees and inspire them to rethink, reimagine, and rejuvenate so they rise to their challenges with more creativity, clarity, and courage than ever. His thought-leading ideas and talks are routinely called "visionary and far-reaching," "important and consequential," yet "profoundly practical and immediately useful.”