Keynote Speaker On The Future Of Leadership
Experiential, inspiring, and high-impact keynotes on the future of leadership—and how to develop and unleash future-fit and future-forging leaders.
Understand why leadership cutures and capabilities must go through a step-change in order to be future-ready for the digital, disrupted, and damaged reality.
Discover the financial, ethical, and adaptive business cases for transformational, visionary, and future-fit leadership—from increase in competitiveness to increases in creativity and collaboration.
Understand why smartness is necessary but not sufficient for future-first leadership—and why it can actually get in the way according to the latest brain science.
Discover ways to develop and evolve the consciousness and competence of leaders so they can adapt business models and delivery models—not just once, but many times over the careers.
Explore why outdated “training” approaches are failing to deliver transformational and future-fit leaders—and how to change the game to drive astonishing ROI from leadership investments.
Explore the top characteristics and capabilities of future-fit and future-forging leaders, from vulnerability to vision and from wisdom to systemic and regenerative thinking.
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 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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Around two-thirds of top executives express that leadership development is their number one human capital concern. However, a staggering 93% acknowledge that their organizations are not effectively building leaders, and an additional 90% state that leadership development fails to achieve concrete business results or clear impact. Additionally, 30% admit to missing out on global business opportunities due to a shortage of leaders with the right mindsets and capabilities.
With experience in overseeing over 100 strategic innovation projects for Fortune 500 companies worldwide, I have learned the hard way that leadership development is more critical than strategy or process for long-term competitive advantage. Without effective next-level leaders, strategic change, innovation, and transformation initiatives—essential for survival and success in today’s rapidly changing world—will fall short.
Leaders must not only drive efficiency gains and relentless performance upgrades but also lead and implement innovation, change, and transformation, necessitating different skills and brain networks. However, a major obstacle exists—the conventional approach to developing leaders, rooted in the outdated Victorian education model, is inadequate and outmoded.
Having dedicated my entire adult life to understanding what next-level, next-generation leadership looks and feels like, I, along with my colleagues, have developed a self-system curriculum for truly transformational leaders. This curriculum includes 200 specific, buildable, and measurable capabilities ranging from radical self-awareness and state mastery to systems awareness and storytelling mastery.
To radically improve how leaders act, interact, and communicate for a successful future, we must move beyond the outdated executive education paradigm.
In every keynote, customized to specific event audiences and ambitions, I share insights on why smartness and sharpness can hinder next-gen leadership. I delve into how to rethink and reinvent leadership development to unleash next-level leaders, emphasizing the daily practice, discipline, and new habit-building required for future-fit leadership.
Topics covered also include the processing of old emotions and difficult memories, leveraging peer support for building leaders in remote, hybrid, and in-person settings, and shifting how leaders interact and communicate away from control and command using scripts, circles, and embodied practices.
Additionally, I address transforming friction and fragmentation to forge coherent and collaborative top teams, and building the ambition, courage, business case, momentum, and investment needed to unleash next-generation leaders.
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