Keynote Speaker On The Future Of HR
Experiential, inspiring, and high-impact keynotes on the future of HR leadership—and why "People Power" is the key to surviving and thriving in a disrupted and digital world
Ways to rethink training, talent management, and leadership development to ensure they are fit for a relentlessly complex, chaotic, and crisis-hit reality.
Why HR leaders and mangers must ensure exponential digital technologies help unlock more human-centric organizations as well as boost productivity and profit.
The opportunity to reshape the HR function as an encourager and instigator of innovation and business transformation, not a killer of them.
How to acknowledge and then break through the many stereotypes others functions and business units have of HR so it can fulfill it's potential as the leaders of the leaders.
Why HR leaders can be the true "wisdom keepers" of the company culture—and so unlock the full force of People Power.
How HR leaders can lead sideways and upwards to inspire, guide, and advise their business partners to forge the future with People Power.
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 The Future of HR & HRTECH
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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We’re in an era of massive turbulence and turmoil, but also energy and excitement in the workplace, as significant as the shift from farms to factories. The working alliance that succeeded in the 1950s and beyond is failing employees and employers, with real wages for non-managers not having risen much since the 1970s. From hybrid workers to four-day weeks, from fears of being automated out of a job to an increased appetite for unionization, HR professionals are facing relentless complexities and ruthless changes, making old ways of thinking about HR and people go out of date fast.
There’s a desperate shortage of the most transformational talent, with churn, not stability, becoming the norm. Even after investing vast amounts to recruit the very best and brightest people, companies often fail to give them the agency, tools, skills, development, and budgets they need to solve the biggest problems that the organization faces.
Having worked with senior HR professionals for many years, I have long ago been convinced that the strategic and breakthrough innovation work I pioneered with Fortune 500 companies only delivers extraordinary results when leaders and cultures have what it takes to deliver on them. Therefore, I’ve come to believe that HR, not strategy, marketing, or finance, holds the key to the kingdom of survival and success in our technology-dominated and disrupted reality because it’s people power that makes all the difference.
But sadly, HR is still too often seen as a force of compliance and control, risk-averse and reactive, rather than visionary, transformative, and courageous. This is a massive missed opportunity for HR to lead their leaders to a transformed future. As a leadership futurist, I not only engage and inspire audiences with what’s possible and what’s coming in the future but also invite them to reflect on how they may want to think differently and act differently to create the future they want to see.
For example, I could share how to make talent acquisition, development, and retention match fit for a complex, chaotic, and crisis-hit future. How exponential digital technologies can help unlock way more human-centric organizations, how HR can be seen as an encourager of innovation and growth mindsets, not a killer of them. How HR professionals can break through stereotypes to fulfill their potential as leaders of the leaders, how HR can serve as the wisdom keeper of their organization, unlocking the full force of people power, and ways HR leaders can lead sideways and upwards to ensure the leaders that they serve, forge, and don’t fail the future.
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