top 10 MOTIVATIONAL KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Nick Jankel is a virtuoso inspirational/transformational keynote speaker, a world authority on unleashing change, innovation, and transformational leadership, and the creator of the neuroscience-led BTX® Method for driving change as fast as humanly possible.
Nick, recently selected as a top 10 speaker by MSN, is booked by discerning corporations, institutions, conferences, associations, and nations—Google, LEGO, Pfizer, Neom, Unilever, HP, No.10 Downing Street—who want exquisitely customized keynotes that inspire hearts, ignite minds, and invoke change. Nick is pushing the boundaries of what a keynote can do to transform mindsets, rewire organizations, and drive outsized business impact.
LEADING IN CHANGE & COMPLEXITY
UNLOCKING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION & INNOVATION
THE FUTURE OF WORK, HEALTH, TECH & LEADERSHIP
CAPTIVATE HEARTS > IGNITE MINDS > INSPIRE CHANGE. NAVIGATE UNCERTAINTY. COPE WITH COMPLEXITY. ADAPT TO DISRUPTION. UNBLOCK INNOVATION. UNLEASH TRANSFORMATION. INSPIRE OPTIMISM. LEAD THE CHANGE. WIN THE FUTURE.
RAVE REVIEWS:
What clients say
Nick had a pronounced and profound impact.
Exceptional!
President
Kellogg’s North America
Nick was the highlight of the 2-day conference. He made it worth going to. Thought-provoking, insightful, and very enjoyable.
Director
Rothschild & Co
My team couldn't speak more highly of the impact Nick made on them. His ideas have now become common language, with leaders challenging one another with them. This is in addition to the non-stop feedback I received after the event, which has been outstanding.
Nick Jankel is a true inspiration and motivational presence!
Executive Vice-President
Bioge
Very impressed! I'm taking his ideas into my organization to move the transformation forward. I highly recommend Nick as a speaker.
Senior Vice-President
HP
some of Nick's UNIQUE
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
100K+
SENIOR Leaders COACHED & DEVELOPED
150+
takeaway leadership & INNOVATION tools created
100+
FORTUNE 500 Innovation Programs LED
10+
Purpose-Driven Enterprises Founded & GROWN
5
THOUGHT LEADING, neuroscience-driven BOOKS WRITTEN
4
modules of advanced leadership curriculum BUILT
3
global network tv shows written / hosted
2
top degrees in medical science & Philosophy of science (summa cum laude, Cambridge)
1
original science-backed theory of change: BTX®
book Nick for an Unprecedented ROI
Electrifying, Energizing & HYPER-ENGAGING "WOW" Keynotes
Nick is a virtuoso speaker who harnesses the science, art, and craft of storytelling to open up portals of possibility for your audience. His emotional courage, passion for his work, and conviction in his science-backed, ground-in-gritty-reality ideas will invite attendees of all persuasions to enter possibility spaces with him and experience their work and the world anew. His style can engage even the most tired and cynical"seen-it-all-before" attendees and spark fires of resolve in their bellies. His keynotes ignite meaningful conversations and memorable connections between attendees that can last well beyond the keynote.
ORIGINAL Science-BACKED IDEAS, ACTIONABLE Ah-HA! INSIGHTS & Real-world EXAMPLES
Each keynote Nick gives blends evidence-based and neuroscience-powered thought leadership, bold yet useful ideas, and hard-won experience drawn from 30 years of work on the frontlines of disruption, supporting 100+ Fortune 500 corporations, major institutions, and start-ups crack innovation, transformation, change management, and exceptional leadership. Nick is particularly good at getting smart people (e.g., execs, engineers, scientists, professionals, technologists, etc.) to engage in a keynote fully and always holds the intention to ignite multiple Ah-Ha! moments for each attendee.
Exquisitely Customized KEYNOTES to fit your brief & ELEVATE YOUR EVENT
Every keynote Nick designs and delivers is crafted to fit your specific event goals and context, speak to your business needs and strategy, and connect with your unique audience type and culture. The resulting tailored keynote content and delivery style is intended to amplify and accelerate your specific event ambitions, drive the biggest impact possible for you and for your attendees, and deliver beyond expectations for the work a keynote can do.
TAKEAWAY TOOLS & PRACTICAL HACKS THAT TURN INSPIRATION INTO ACTION
Nick often includes and shares in his keynotes powerful tools and short yet effective mindset practices (from his world-class leadership and innovation firm) that attendees can put to work in the hours, weeks, and years after your event. His tools and practices can turn inspiration into action out in the world and are designed to ignite meaningful change. Attendees will be given a way to access his materials, which they can use to switch on their teams and colleagues to some of Nick's ideas, cascading the impact across their organizations.
POPULAR KEYNOTE TOPICS
(Always Customized To Your Event)
Fully Customized. Hyper Engaging. Enlivening. Guaranteed Wow Factor. Beyond Motivational > Transformational. Lasting Memories. = Unprecedented ROI.
ABOUT NICK JANKEL
virtuoso motivational & inspirational keynote speaker
EXPERT & EXPERIENCED "leadership FUTURIST"
world authority on LEADING, embracing & UNLEASHING Change, Innovation & Transformation
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Forge the future.
Don’t fail it.
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IDEAL event types to book nick to speak at
NICK has SPOKEN At THESE
PRESTIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS
USEFUL articles from NICK's blog on keynote speaking
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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.
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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.
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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.
