Transformation keynote speaker & EXPERT ON DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Looking for an inspiring, science-led, and highly-experienced Transformation Keynote Speaker and an expert on leading digital transformation for your next event?
With 25+ years of experience supporting organizations on the frontlines of digital disruption, and three decades studying the science of change, Nick Jankel has cracked the code of business transformation. He has worked with hundreds of Fortune 500s (Disney, Unilever, HSBC, Novartis) to unlock digital transformation and shares actionable insights from the coal face, a science-backed process for landing transformation, and practical tools that unlock transformation—all of which can be applied to organizations of all sizes and sectors.
Explore the key digital, disruptive, and existential drivers of global change that make a compelling case that continuous transformation is a business imperative for all organizations, both now and in the future.
Discover the specific capabilities of the wide variety of 4th Industrial Revolution technologies—AI, Blockchain, CRISP, and many more—that offer all organizations opportunities for business model innovation and digital transformation.
Understand how to avoid the many predictable pitfalls and cultural pain of digital and business transformation—and how to leverage a best-practice process for driving digital transformation that avoids burning money, time, and goodwill.
Gain insight into the critical people side of transformation and how to use insights from the latest neuroscience, psychology, and complexity science to build organizational resonance not resistance—so that transformation unfolds rather than unravels.
Learn how to cultivate and strengthen a Transformation Mindset in leaders and their teams—that ensure that transformation is a triumph and not a tragedy.
Discover powerful and empowering brain-based transformation tools, words, and hacks that can proactively manage issues like fear of loss (of status, control, power), overwhelm, and confusion.
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Nick's expertise on the subject of transformation is clear. He broke complex ideas into simple and relatable concepts and did this in a highly compelling fashion. In particular, the way Nick correlated transformation and performance had a big impact on me.
Sales Director
CDW
Challenging and thought-provoking, and great to see the emphasis on deep transformation.
Chief Operating Officer
HSBC
Very impressed and excited! I would like to take these thoughts and ideas into my organization to move forward with transformation and mindset shift.
Senior Innovation Strategist
Bundesdruckerei
Nick transformed our event with an engaging and evocative talk that hit all the nails that we put out there. It set a perfect scene for the remainder!
Head of Marketing,
Syngenta
Top TRANSFORMATION Keynote Speaker & EXPERT AT LEADING DIGITAL & Business TRANSFORMATION
Nick Jankel is a global top 50 keynote speaker and seasoned expert on digital transformation and its sibling, business model innovation. With decades of experience on the frontlines of digital disruption—working on the first digital strategy for Disney, mobile software innovations for Microsoft, process transformation for HSBC, and systemic transformation for Genentech—Nick shares penetrating and inspiring insights into how to lead transformation by balancing the potent role of new technologies with the vital importance of people, both users/customers and users/employees.
Inspired by the empowering and emancipatory potential of digital technology, Nick started his first company—a digital accelerator and incubator— in 1999 at the height of the dot com dream. As the world changed, he transformed the fast-growth business into a breakthrough innovation and digital transformation consultancy. After exit, having realized how important leadership and culture are in successful transformation, he created a consulting practice—Switch On Leadership—that develops transformational leaders and cultures of transformation as well as programs that drive concrete business transformation and business model innovation.
An unashamed transformation geek, Nick has gone further and deeper than most to crack the code of transformation. He engages in the latest insights from brain, behavioral, emotional, cognitive, consciousness, and complexity science to build an original theory, process, and toolset for leading and landing successful transformation as fast as humanly possible—by working with, and not against, human nervous systems and company cultures. Bio-Transformation® is an evolving body of work that Nick shares tips and tools from in his keynotes on digital transformation.
Nick is an award-winning author of multiple books on transformation and leadership, has been a master transformation coach on two global TV shows, and is a transformative thought leader who has spoken at the illustrious Aspen Ideas Festival, The Economist Innovation Summit, and at Talks@Google.
"FORGE THE FUTURE. DON'T FAIL IT."
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About 90% of the Fortune 500 companies from 1955 no longer exist. It’s estimated that fully 50% of today’s S&P will be replaced in the next decade, evident with the launch of generative AIS and other disruptive technologies. Not even the tech giants are invincible to the evolutionary rule of adapt or die.
Changing production lines and lines of code is relatively easy, but changing how people act, think, and interact is critical for successful change adaptation. Transformation is exceptionally challenging because brains and nervous systems change much more slowly and with far more complexity than machines and computer systems. We are organisms, not algorithms. Leaders must understand how to change people to transform individuals, teams, organizations, and systems.
With my collaborators, I’ve painstakingly pieced together a proven pathway and a set of people-powered tools, techniques, and practices to transform people and organizations as fast as humanly possible. This approach works with, not against, how human biologies and company cultures truly function. Informed by the latest neuroscience, behavioral science, and complexity science, it’s called biotransformation.
Biotransformation can help you blast through the barriers that block innovation, cut through the trial that stops change, and take the pain out of business and digital transformation. 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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The typical journey of real transformation and how to proactively manage the many pitfalls on the path.
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Learn how to build resilience, not resistance, so that change unfolds and does not unravel.
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Discover how to work with the neuroscience, psychology, and emotions of both resistors and champions.
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Leverage the pain and gain of change across different stakeholders.
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Understand what the people’s side of change really is and how to create the ideal conditions for your people to release the old and embrace the new ways.
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Ensure that transformation is a triumph, not a tragic tale of wastage and failure, by managing fear, egotism, power plays, and excessive command and control.
I saw the room go from a bit tired to very inspired. Totally engaging and fully immersive. You wouldn’t want to miss a second of it. It was powerfully supercharged right from the start.
VP Digital,
Alfa Laval
Wonderful! The talk was motivating, thoughtful, and so well-delivered. Many of my colleagues said they felt seen for the first time.
Director,
McCormick & Co
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
Exactly what we wanted. Our CEO has been quoting Nick’s thinking to our leaders.
HR Director,
Oxford University