LEADING IN CHANGE & COMPLEXITY
UNLOCKING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION & INNOVATION
THE FUTURE OF WORK, HEALTH, TECH & LEADERSHIP
What clients say
Top 100/200/300
Leader Events
Nick had a pronounced and profound impact. Exceptional!
President
Kellogg’s North America
Nick goes deeper and clearly made an impact on me and others. Looking forward to seeing the seeds grow in me and my organization!
Executive Vice-President
Merck
Industry & Association Conferences
Nick was the highlight of the 2-day conference. He made it worth going to. Thought-provoking, insightful, and very enjoyable.
SVP
Investment Bank
As a transformation guru, Nick’s ideas are as relevant to the newest startup as they are to the oldest public company.
Head of White House Office Of Innovation
Advisor to President Obama
Functions, Brand Teams & Business Unit Events
A standing ovation! I am already sharing the insights with my leaders. Thank you!
CEO
Unilever USA
Wonderful! The talk was motivating, thoughtful, and so well-delivered. Many of my colleagues said they felt seen for the first time.
Director
McCormick
Customer
& Sales EventS
An inspirational speech about the coming transformation. Both the content and the delivery were really strong: relevant, clear, concise and powerful. I highly recommend Nick as a speaker.
Director
Rothschild & Co
It was a revelation about how to navigate the new normal in the VUCA world. We have in us the key to adapt—let’s unlock it.
Senior Manager
Ernst & Young
Fully Customized. Hyper engaging. Guaranteed Wow Factor. Transformational. Unprecedented ROI.
NICK’S MOST POPULAR KEYNOTE TOPICS
(Customized To Your Event)
Transformational Leadership: Leading In Change, Leading Change
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How to upgrade leadership mindsets to fall forward, not back, under pressure (headwinds, uncertainty, disruption)
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How to shift how leaders interact and communicate away from “Command and Control” to creativity, empathy, and influence
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How to transform fiefdoms, friction, and fragmentation to unlock coherence and collaboration in top teams
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How to sense-make, decision-make, and prioritize in complexity
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How to go about solving the poly-crises of our age
Leading Breakthrough & disruptive Innovation
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What breakthrough innovation is, how it works, and how to do it right
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How to blast through the barriers that block innovation
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Why smartness is necessary but not sufficient for innovation (and can actually get in the way)
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The archetypal journey of disruptive innovation and how to proactively avoid the many predictable pitfalls
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The killers and unlockers of innovation and how to maximize chances of lasting success
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Ways to build an innovation culture—from the top down and bottom up
UNLOCKING & LEADING Digital Transformation
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How to take the turmoil out of transformation by understanding the archetypal journey of deep change
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Why smartness is necessary but not sufficient for transformation (and can actually get in the way)
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How to build emotional resonance and not resistance so that transformation unfolds rather than unravels
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How to avoid the many predictable pitfalls so you avoid burning money, time, and goodwill
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Ways to ensure transformation is a triumph and not a tragedy by managing fear, silos, and power plays
Innovation, Change & Transformation Mindsets
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Understand the critical people side of change that blocks all the best intentions
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How agility starts with emotional mastery to ensure people flow and don’t freeze in uncertainty or under pressure
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How to release outdated ideas that block innovation/transformation and embrace new ones that are future-ready
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How to build mindsets and cultures that are as comfortable with reflection, creativity, and customer empathy as with control and perfection
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How to hack perfectionism and boost experimentation.
forging A BRIGHTER Future Of Work
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The needs, attitudes, and motivations of the different generations in the workplace
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The major tensions and conflicts in the Future Of Work—and different lenses for resolving them
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Considering and coping with Back to Office mandates
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The 4 Ms of great workplace cultures and how to unlock each: meaning, mastery, membership, and majesty
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How to build connection, trust, and belonging in the hybrid reality (without becoming a corporate cult)
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How to build a safer, more supportive, and more sustainable working culture from the bottom up as well as top-down
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How to leverage new people and productivity technologies within a human-centric workplace
unleashing A BOLD Future Of Leadership
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The top characteristics of future-fit leaders, from vulnerability to vision
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The various business cases for transformational, visionary, and future-fit leadership
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Why smartness is necessary but not sufficient for future-forging leadership (and can get in the way of creativity and connection)
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How to evolve the consciousness and competence of leaders so they can adapt business models and delivery models not just once but many times to lead their organization and industry to a thriving future
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Why outdated “training” approaches fail to deliver transformational leaders and how to embrace leadership transformation
100K+
Senior Leaders Developed
1,000+
Professional Keynotes Delivered
100+
Innovation Programs Driven
10+
Purpose-Driven Enterprises Founded
ABOUT
NICK JANKEL
virtuoso & Transformative keynote speaker
Master of Unleashing & Leading Change, Innovation & Transformation
Nick Jankel, a Cambridge-educated medical scientist and philosopher (Triple 1st/summa cum laude), has spent 30 years cracking the code of leading and landing transformation and innovation. With 28 years of experience serving the growth of ambitious organizations like Nike, Unilever, Intel, Virgin, PlayStation, and Novartis and 25 years walking the talk as a high-impact, purpose-led entrepreneur on the frontlines of disruption, Nick is a lodestar of vision, velocity, values-driven business, and exponential value-creation for those navigating change, complexity, and uncertainty.
A highly experienced and sought-after professional mainstage/ headliner speaker at the very top of his game, Nick is booked by companies, conferences, institutions, associations, and nations—think Nike, LEGO, Unilever, Abu Dhabi, Pfizer, Google, No.10—who seek an unprecedented ROI from electrifying, exquisitely-customized, and science-backed keynotes that expand minds, captivate hearts & ignite change.
Nick’s keynotes help people thrive in change/complexity, unlock digital transformation/innovation, and become truly transformational as leaders and team members. He has cutting-edge talks on what is probable, possible, problematic, and provocative in the Future of Work, Health, Tech, Leadership, and Regenerative Business.
Nick is out to share the reliably life-changing and often world-changing ideas, mindsets, habits, and daily practices needed to lead brilliantly through change, unlock constant breakthroughs in business models and teamwork, and blast through the barriers that predictably block innovation and transformation.
Forge the future. Don’t fail it.
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IDEAL events to book nick for
Top 100/200/300 Leaders
Customer & Sales Events
Functions, Brand Teams & Business Units
Industry & Association Conferences
TOP REASONS TO BOOK NICK
Electrifying, Energizing & Experiential Keynotes
Immersive and emotive keynotes that captivate hearts, spark connections and conversations, and inspire “magic moments" of wowness and togetherness.
Exquisitely-Customized To Elevate Event Ambitions
Designed around your specific needs and context to amplify and accelerate your goals, drive a bigger impact, and deliver way above expectations.
Cutting-Edge Science & Real-World Case Studies
Evidence-based thinking, brain-based insights, and lived examples that overcome cynicism, expand minds, unlock bold ideas, and provoke Ah-Ha! moments.
Transformative Experiences For An Unprecedented ROI
A unique approach only achievable by a virtuoso that can galvanize transformation in the room, shift the company or industry system, and ignite concrete change.
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Transformational leaders deliver 6x results of average leaders. Yet 93% of top execs say their organization does not build effective leaders, and 90% say leadership development does not achieve concrete business results.
125%
While engaged employees are 44% more productive than satisfied ones, inspired employees are +125% more productive! Yet at least 60% of employees are disengaged, costing the economy 9% of GDP each year.
80%
More than eight out of ten leaders are outmatched by the VUCA reality they must lead within, with only 8% able to lead and land innovation and business transformation.
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Four out of every ten global CEOs say that their business model will not be viable in 10 years due to disruption. Yet the vast majority of legacy corporations utterly fail at breakthrough innovation.
NICK’S LATEST BOOK
NOW LEAD THE CHANGE
Repurpose your career, future-proof your organization, and regenerate our crisis-hit world by mastering transformational leadership
By Nick Seneca Jankel
The fast-moving VUCA world of digital technologies, disrupted customers, and global risks is demanding that every leader can adapt their products, people, and processes fast enough to survive. But conventional management science was developed to maintain the status quo, not to transform it. Now Lead The Change presents seven science-driven yet wisdom-led principles of transformational leadership to unlock your capacity to lead the change you want to see.
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