#1 leadership Speaker on transformational & Adaptive leadership: win the future together!
Looking for a top Leadership Keynote Speaker and an expert on leading change and leading in change, complexity, uncertainty, and chaos for your next event or top 50-500 senior leaders gathering?
Nick is a specialist at top executive gatherings, delivering cutting-edge leaership content while also building coherence and unleashing momentum in senior leaders and top teams. Nick has coached and developed c.100,000 senior, middle, and high-potential leaders in Fortune 500 corporations like Intel, HSBC, Unilever, and Nike. He is the co-founder of a pioneering leadership company that is reinventing leadership development. He has spent two decades creating a cutting-edge transformational leadership curriculum that includes 150+ takeaway leadership tools that he can provide with a keynote. He has created an original, brain-based, and neuroscience-driven theory of transformation that underpins his work with leaders.
#1 leadership Speaker: win the future, together
Looking for a top Leadership Keynote Speaker and an expert on leading change and leading in complexity, uncertainty, and turbulence for your next event?
Nick is a specialist at top 10-500 exec gatherings, delivering cutting-edge leadership content to help attendees be and lead the change—whilst also using a keynote to build coherence and unleash momentum in top teams.
seasoned specialist at senior leadership & top 10-500 events
Classic high-impact keynotes or interactive formats with time for reflection & participation—alone & together
optional workshop sessions with takeaway tools that build leadership skills
Cutting-edge content but also engaging
journies that Boost coherence, challenge complacency & build momentum
Very relevant to LEGO’s values and purpose and highlighted the importance of creativity within the culture and leadership team.
CEO
LEGO
Nick goes deeper and clearly made an impact on me and others. Looking forward to seeing the seeds grow in me and my organization!
EVP,
Merck
Very impressed! I'm taking his ideas into my organization to move the transformation forward. I highly recommend Nick as a speaker.
SVP
HP
Exactly what we wanted. Our CEO has been quoting Nick’s thinking to all our leaders.
Director,
Oxford University
some of Nick's UNIQUE
LEADERSHIP
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
presidents & prime ministers advised
2
top degrees in medical science & Philosophy of science (summa cum laude, Cambridge)
1
original science-backed theory of change: bio-TRANSFORMATION®
AN Unprecedented ROI:
4 reasons to book Nick as your leadership KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Electrifying, Energizing & HYPER-ENGAGING "WOW" Keynotes —including
immersive & Experiential formats
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 can include and share 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 LEADERSHIP KEYNOTE TOPICS
(Always Customized To Your Event)
Leading & DECISION-MAKING In Change, COMPLEXITY, turbulence & UNCERTAINTY
building customer-centricity & unlocking insight-led Innovation without losing everyday excellence
LEADING SUCCESSFUL
change & Digital/BUSINESS
Transformation
leading with AI in a responsible and human-centric way
leading teams to hustle (boosting performance & growth) without losing humanity
leading teams using inspiration, influence & empathy without losing strength, rigor & performance
A standing ovation! I am already sharing the insights with my leaders. Thank you!
CEO,
Unilever USA
An inspiring keynote for our senior leadership team. Nick inspired us to continue to work on ourself and lead the way. The value of the leadership tool was spot on! Thank you!
SVP
SAP
A superb talk. It has started us on the journey of cultural change.
CEO,
Novartis
A compelling keynote with very useful thoughts I am applying.
CEO
HSBC South Africa
motivational SPEAKER on leadership: potential Talking POINTS & TAKEAWAYS
always CUSTOMIZED TO YOUR EVENT
Discover effective ways for leaders to approach necessary and mission-critical change, innovation, and business transformation to keep your organization adaptive and competitive in relentlessly and ruthlessly changing markets.
Provoke customer-centric mindsets that ensure leaders return to the nuts and bolts of growing businesses—solving customer pain points that customers cannot solve on their own—and provide tools that unlock customer-centric decisions and insights.
Understand how to sense-make, make effective decisions, and prioritize things to do in complexity, chaos, and crisis—so leaders can focus on meaningful impact and driving growth.
Shift how leaders relate, interact, and communicate away from “command and control”, micromanagement, and force to creativity, empathy, and influence— without losing focus, respect, and strength.
Tangibly shift leaders away from fiefdoms, friction, and fragmentation to unlock cohesion, coherence, and collaboration in top teams—so leaders fall forward together, not backward alone, under pressure.
Learn how leaders can embrace a "dual mode" mindset that ensures they Get The Right Stuff Done at velocity without losing their capacity to reflect, adapt, and innovate as their world and their customers change.
internationally-recognized author, thought leader & keynote speaker On adaptive, CONSCIOUS & TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP
Nick Jankel is a top 50 global professional keynote speaker who shares penetrating and inspiring insights into how to lead significant change, transformation, and innovation born from 25 years on the frontlines of disruptive innovation, purpose-driven entrepreneurship, and transformational leadership development.
Nick is a highly experienced and sought-after mainstage, motivational, and inspirational keynote speaker on future-fit and next-level leadership. A Cambridge-educated scientist, Nick has led many teams of highly intelligent and challenging colleagues as well as led, trained, coached, and developed c.100,000 senior, middle, and high-potential leaders in Fortune 500 corporations like Unilever, HSBC, Virgin, and Nike.
Nick is the co-founder of a pioneering leadership company that has been disrupting and reinventing leadership development for 20 years. In this capacity, Nick spent two decades creating a cutting-edge leadership curriculum with 150+ teachable leadership tools—from Cell-To-System™. To underpin all this work. he has evolved an original, rigorous, and neuroscience-driven theory of leadership development, Bio-Transformation®.
Nick is deeply passionate about and totally committed to sharing the mindsets, habits, and daily practices needed to lead brilliantly through change/ uncertainty/ complexity, lead creative breakthroughs in business models and teamwork, and blast through the barriers that predictably block leaders from delivering innovation and transformation. His thought-leading ideas are routinely called "game-changing," "powerful," and "profoundly practical."
Whether headlining at a conference or engaging the top 10-500 execs at an important event (a specialty of his), Nick seeks to touch the hearts and minds of all attendees and inspire them to rethink, reimagine, and rejuvenate their leadership style to they rise to their challenges with more creativity, clarity, and courage than ever.
Nick is an award-winning author of multiple books on leadership— including Now Lead The Change—has been a transformation coach on two global TV shows and is a thought leader who has spoken to scores of senior leaders and senior leadership teams from San Francisco to Shanghai.
win the future.
together.
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Truly transformational leaders deliver 600% the results of average ones if 70% of an organization’s leadership behaviors are responsive as opposed to reactive. Profit is in the top 10% of companies, yet over 80% of leaders are outmatched by the VUCA reality, and only 8% can deliver change and transformation effectively in today’s VUCA world. No organization can outperform the craft, the consciousness, and the competence of its leaders for very long without explicitly transformational leadership—whether it’s called creative, adaptive, or strategic. The forces of disruption, disorder, drama, and dysfunction always prevail, and underperformance, irrelevance, and ultimately obsolescence all follow.
Once I understood that, I dedicated my life to mastering the science, the art, and the craft of truly transformational leadership for my own company and for the 100,00+ leaders I’ve had the privilege to advise, coach, and inspire over 20 years. Along with my colleagues, I’ve created a self-to-system curriculum for transformational leadership that helps leaders drive forward critical changes, breakthroughs, and business transformations so they forge and don’t fail the future.
Taking your brief, I will work tirelessly to amplify your messages and elevate your ambitions while remaining independent as a thought leader, challenger, and aspirer. Every one of my keynotes is customized to meet and exceed expectations and connect with your specific audience to unleash energy, momentum, inspiration, and traction.
In your keynote, I could share:
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How to upgrade leadership mindsets to fall forward, not fall back under pressure
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How to use elements of the Self-to-System curriculum to take the turmoil out of transformation and cope better with uncertainty and complexity
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How to lead change, innovation, and transformation from the inside out to meet the outside in—one new belief and one new behavior at a time.
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How to sense-make, decision-make, and prioritize in complexity
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Ways to strengthen the existing offer while also unlocking breakthroughs that shape the future of your industry
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Why agility and velocity begin with emotional mastery so we flow and don’t freeze in the face of headwinds.
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How to accelerate the journey of becoming a transformational leader and where to start in the hours, days, and months after.