Nick Jankel 

Nick Jankel is a global top 50 headliner keynote speaker and futurist who is booked by corporations, institutions, conferences, associations, and nations—think Kellogg's, LEGO, Pfizer, Abu Dhabi, Neom, Google, HP, and No.10 Downing Street—who seek an unprecedented ROI from surprisingly different—electrifying, empowering, and exquisitely customized—keynotes that captivate hearts, ignite minds, and inspire concrete change. He delivers keynotes in person and online all over the world, working out of his bases in Los Angeles and London.

 

A Cambridge-educated scientist and philosopher (Triple 1st/summa cum laude), Nick has spent 30 years cracking the code of change. His science-backed yet hyper-practical ideas help people navigate uncertainty and complexity, lead in change and lead the change, unlock breakthrough innovation, and take the pain out of transformation. A seasoned expert futurist, he explores what is probable, possible, problematic, and preferable in the Future of Work, Leadership, Health, Education, and Business.

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Nick backs up his inspiring, motivating, and energizing keynotes with deep expertise and experience gained from three decades spent supporting the success of high-growth start-ups and ambitious organizations like Nike, Unilever, Intel, Virgin, PlayStation, and Novartis and hard-won from his years as successful, serial entrepreneur on the frontlines of digital disruption (he founded his first business aged 24).

 

Nick is a groundbreaking theorist and master practitioner of transformational/ conscious/ creative leadership and breakthrough/ disruptive/ transformative innovation, the two most powerful technologies for ensuring organizations adapt to relentless change, survive ruthless disruption and deliver exponential value-creation. His thought-leading ideas are routinely called "game-changing," "powerful," and "profoundly practical."

 

Nick is out to share the 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 block innovation and transformation. He works really hard—as a deep thinker yet accessible and warm-hearted speaker—to simplify complexity, reduce the fear of uncertainty, and take the pain out of transformation.

 

Whether headlining at a conference or a top 50-500 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. He reliably delivers WOW-inspiring talks at the intersection of technology, futurology, transformation, change, and innovation.

 

In a speaking career spanning twenty-five years, Nick has become a truly virtuoso speaker, crafting a unique fusion of exhilarating ideas, empowering tips, and an enlivening stage presence. He goes way beyond information, education, and motivation to inspire, accelerate, and transform. In addition to dazzling 45-minute keynotes, Nick has pushed keynote speaking to the limits to deliver unprecedented ROI for clients through experiential, interactive, and immersive keynote speaking formats. 

 

Nick takes the science, art, and craft of keynote speaking profoundly seriously and sees keynotes as an underappreciated and underutilized tool for driving concrete change in organizations and across networks/ associations/ systems.  He has delivered for organizations as diverse as Pfizer, LEGO, Tesco, Kellogg’s, AstraZeneca, NHS, Schroder’s, WWF, Aspen Ideas Festival, Talks@Google, and CHRO Summit, showcasing his ability to cater to the unique needs of different industries and event types.

 

As a trained scientist and philosopher of science, Nick uses the latest neuroscience to inspire even the most critical thinkers and win over even the most demanding audiences (e.g., engineers, educators, clinicians, technologists, lawyers, and financiers). His thinking and tools can be relied upon to transform outdated yet change-resistant behaviors and mindsets.

 

Since studying medical science, Nick has been dedicated to cracking the code of human and organizational change. As a result, he has developed an original and robust theory—Bio-Transformtion® or BTX®—for driving individual, organizational, and systemic change as fast as humanly possible by working with, not against, human biology and culture.

 

Nick is the co-founder and CEO of global leadership consultancy Switch On Leadership (SOL). Operating worldwide, out of LDN and LAX, SOL works with great corporations (e.g., Unilever, Walgreens, Intel, HSBC, Syngenta, Kellanova, Smucker’s, AbbVie, Genentech), government agencies (e.g., Cabinet Office, NHS), and non-profits (e.g. GBC, WWF, Rockefeller Foundation, Oxfam).

 

With his team at SOL, Nick strives to craft the most transformative and so effective leadership, teamwork, innovation, and culture change programs on the planet. Over 25 years, SOL has invented game-changing ways to unlock truly transformational leadership, breakthrough innovations, and exceptional teamwork.

 

Nick draws upon his company’s comprehensive leadership curriculum, advanced innovation methodology, and transformative tools and practices to meet keynote briefs. As a result of this huge library of cutting-edge IP, he can deliver keynotes on topics like purpose, coping with uncertainty, transformational leadership, innovation, changing mindsets, and storytelling with more power and credibility than most speakers.

 

Nick has coached, advised, and empowered 100,000+ Fortune 500 leaders, start-ups/scale-up founders, local/national political leaders, policymakers, and changemakers. He has led 100+ disruptive innovation programs, incl. catalyzing the most successful TV show of all time. He has contributed to billions of dollars of inclusive growth and outsized value creation.

 

A serial entrepreneur of 10x purpose-led enterprises, Nick has written six books, lectured at Yale, UC Berkeley, and Oxford, appeared in The Times and The Economist, written a column in the FT, been invited to speak as a thought leader at Talks@Google and Aspen Ideas Festival, and starred as a transformation coach and TV host on two hit global TV shows (BBC, MTV). He wrote and exec produced a TV show green-lit for US network television on transforming businesses.