Keynote Speaker on Purpose-Driven Leadership & Business
Experiential, inspiring, and high-impact keynotes on real purpose-driven business and purpose-led leadership—to unleash meaning and lasting positive impact in corporates, institutions, and society
The business case for purpose-led businesses and brands, with emerging research on the impact on results, wellbeing, and company culture of purpose—including the "purpose dividend" and the "purpose premium."
How go about developing an authentic business purpose by transforming company missions and ambitions into a clear and compelling purpose statement—and how to avoid "purpose washing" by ensuring it is a genuine contribution to society and/or nature.
The emerging "purpose gap" between executive assumptions and employee perceptions—and how to close it by helping both leaders and employees connect their purpose to the business purpose.
How to harness purpose-led leadership tools and techniques to ignite fire in the belly and inspire people to dedicate their discretionary energy and effort to making a marked contribution to realizing a common purpose.
Ways to help co-workers and collaborators to find everyday purpose, meaning, and fulfillment in their work—no matter how mundane it may seem—and the benefits on health and performance this can bring.
How to develop a coherent leadership purpose to keep leaders going in the most challenging moments—one that can triumph against the relentless forces of change, decay, and disintegration.
A standing ovation! I am already sharing the insights with my leaders. Thank you!
CEO,
Unilever USA
Nick was the highlight of the 2-day conference. He made it worth going to. Thought-provoking, insightful, and very enjoyable.
SVP
Investment Bank
Nick had a pronounced and profound impact. Exceptional!
President,
Kellogg’s North America
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 Keynote Speaker On Purpose-driven 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.
Nick is a sought-after and accomplished keynote speaker and futurist who helps audiences make sense of and simplify complexity, understand what is coming and what is possible, and understand how they can metabolize unstoppable disruption into value-creating, customer-centric ideas, insights, and innovations.
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 thought leader who has spoken at the illustrious Aspen Ideas Festival, The Economist Innovation Summit (alongside Elon Musk), and at Talks@Google.
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Purpose-led businesses outperform the market by over 40% and see their valuation double when compared to conventional companies. The highest-performing employees are three times more likely to work for a company with a compelling purpose, yet only 33% say their company has one. I believe purpose is a huge, often untapped driver of motivation, inspiration, and innovation. Purpose-driven businesses and brands may be the only way to ensure our planet and species flourish in our crisis-hit reality.
However, I’ve witnessed that talking about business and leadership purpose is easy; understanding what it is and what it isn’t, making sure purpose is clear, compelling, and concrete in terms of a benefit to the world, and avoiding purpose washing is much harder. There’s also a clear purpose gap in most organizations. While the majority of executives think purpose is essential to business, only a third of employees see evidence of this.
I’ve been an explicitly purpose-led entrepreneur and leader. I had a purpose epiphany in the mid-2000s after an intense period of burnout and breakdown. I realized then that for my own well-being and that of the world, I had to put purpose at the core of everything I do and everything my company does. Since then, along with my colleagues, I’ve developed a profound and powerful set of tools and practices to help people and businesses find and define a genuinely contributive purpose.
I’ve helped scores of leaders and organizations leverage their purpose to unlock a big and bold vision, focus their strategy, leave a legacy, and provide meaning and belonging to their teams. 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, unleashing energy, momentum, inspiration, and traction.
In my keynote, I could share a clear and compelling business case for genuinely purpose-led businesses and brands. I’ll guide on how to elevate ambitions and upgrade goals into a clear, compelling, and concrete purpose that people feel like a fire burning in their bellies. Learn how to close the purpose gap and help colleagues connect their own purpose to that of their organizations. Discover how to help others find meaning and fulfillment in their work, no matter how mundane it may look. I’ll also guide on starting to think about leaving a lasting legacy as a purpose-driven leader and how to go about developing a coherent and common purpose that can triumph against the forces of disorder, decay, and disintegration that are all around us.
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