THE NICK JANKEL DIFFERENCE

Nick understands that your investment in a keynote is considerable—not just speaking fees but the time of every attendee—so he gives all he has to add value before, during, and after the event to maximize your ROI in terms of both the impact of the event and its commercial value—whether through galvanizing a top leadership team, confirming the value of association membership, or inspiring customers to engage further.

Nick spends significant time crafting and customizing his keynotes for each event—never repeating the same one twice—to ensure he speaks to your goals, fits your unique context, and impresses your audience members and internal clients. He can record a free teaser video for you about the topic to send out prior to the event, and he will add interactive elements and case studies to fit the specific moment.

Nick will take your brief, digest it fully, and then thoughtfully and intentionally enhance your message using his keynote and his research, ideas, personal stories, and examples—without losing his valuable independence, unique character, and fierce conviction as a renowned thought leader and inspirer of hope and possibility. He puts himself on the line each and every time to engage, enthuse, and encourage attendees to be the change.

Nick works to create an enduring memory of your event using emotionally remarkable experiences within his keynote and by seeking to bring the audience into a moment of togetherness—so attendees remember the moment and speak about it warmly long after.

Nick provides evidence-based and truthful thought leadership designed to generate excited conversations in breaks and engage even the most skeptical attendees in big ideas that challenge assumptions; and “soft” skills like creativity, trust, and safety—using the latest research from the behavioral and brain sciences as well as case studies from the coalface of change.

Nick can provide practical tips and everyday practices designed to take the pain out of change, inspire transformation, and blast through the barriers that block innovation—so audiences can use these hacks to deal with the real pain points bothering them.

Nick’s exquisite stagecraft, infectious enthusiasm, and boundless energy offers an authentic and alive performance—that can blow away even the most jaded audiences, tired attendees, and “seen it all before’ delegates

Nick spends much time developing and evolving highly-transmissible and viral "memes" that can be passed on from attendee to team member or co-worker, "infecting" a corporation or association with ideas that generate new kinds of conversations, shift mindsets, and drive change long after the keynote is over.

Nick can offer one or more of 100+ takeaway transformation tools—one-page PDF printouts developed over the last 25 years in Nick's innovation and leadership consultancy—that can be provided to each audience member that they can practice using during the event and which will help them solve problems in their everyday work.

Nick engages audiences in his thought-leading ideas and life-changing practices using every trick in the book: vulnerable personal tales of both extraordinary successes and majestic failures, evocative real-world examples, customized case studies to your topic,  transformative sonic moments, beautiful slide imagery/animations, and his inimitable and embodied stage presence.

Nick does all he can to connect with diverse audiences, seeking to engage each mind and touch every heart in the room—adding in cutural insights and customs from his extensive experiences travelling and working across the US, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. He has worked with local teams from San Francisco to Shanghai, from South Africa to Sydney, and from Singapore to Saudi Arabia.

Nick believes a keynote can go far beyond education, mortivation, and even inspiration—and can actually ignite transformation. He use all his stagecraft to engage every audience member—even the most senior and cynical figures—to reflect, rethink, and start the change they want to see.

As well as delivering a killer keynote, Nick can provide deep experience design and facilitation skills optimized over 27+ years at the highest levels of industry and government—having designed and led over 100 breakthrough innovation programs and designed and led over 250 leadership development programs for corporations, government department, supra-national orgs, and major institutions and non-profits

With around 1000 keynotes delivered all over the world, Nick and his Office has=ve developed an extraordinarily meticulous keynote process and to minimize stress for event producers, speaker bookers, and end clients—including easy-to-use forms, separate FAQ docs for producers, MCs, and tech teams, and added value additions to engage audiences before and after the event.

Nick cares about every event and every audience member and will do everything in his power to deliver on your brief, putting himself and his reputation on the line every time to drive impact for you and your client. He cares little for his own ego and instead is in the room, in each and every event, to serve the needs of the audience members in the room and seek to alleviate their pain points, inspire their hearts, and bring hope to all that better things are possible.

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