#1 future of leadership keynote Speaker
Looking for a top Leadership Keynote Speaker and an expert on The Future Of Leadership for your next event?
Nick Jankel has trained, 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 path-finding leadership company that is reinventing leadership development and has spent two decades creating a cutting-edge leadership curriculum with 200 capabilities to develop for future-fit leadership.
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
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®
Very relevant to LEGO’s values and purpose and highlighted the importance of creativity within the working environment.
CEO
LEGO
An amazing experience. Very, very good feedback from our leaders.
HR Business Partner
Intel
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 all our leaders.
HR Director,
Oxford University
FUTURE-FIT leadership & The FUTURE OF LEADERSHIP Talking POINTS & TAKEAWAYS
always CUSTOMIZED TO YOUR EVENT
Understand the critical competencies and capabilities in the future of leadership—empowering attendees with how to cope and create with the complex, chaotic, uncertain, volatile, digital, and disrupted (VUCA) world all leaders must win in.
Inspire your leaders with the top skills of future-fit leadership—like being vulnerable without appearing weak; holding a big and bold vision without losing a focus on everday efficiencies; and holding their teams safely while demanding exacting standards of excellence.
Blow minds with the latest brain science that suggests that leaders overly reliant on control cannot be creative and collaborative—and why being right can be the greatest obstacle to leading meaningful change, breakthrough innovation, and digital/business transformation.
Get access to actionable insights, daily practices, practical tools, and quick hacks that help leaders adapt and transform their products, business models, delivery models, and team cultures to stay relevant to the fast-changing world.
Help leaders develop Mindset Mastery so they can shift themselves and their reports from feeling BANI (brittle, anxious, nonlinear, incomprehensible) to feeling the power of a METTA Mindset: Malleable, Empathic, Tethered,
Transformational & Alive!
Discover the lasting benefits and business case for transformational, adaptive, visionary, and future-fit leadership—from exponential value-creation to massive shifts in team creativity and collaboration, from enhanced performance to top talent retention.
Keynote Speaker On FUTURE-FIT leadership & 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 training interventions.
Nick is a highly experienced, sought-after, and global top 50 mainstage, motivational, and inspirational keynote speaker at the very top of his game. He is booked by discerning corporations, institutions, conferences, associations, and nations—Kellogg's, LEGO, Pfizer, Abu Dhabi, Neom, Google, HP, and No.10 Downing Street—who seek an unprecedented ROI from electrifying, empowering, and exquisitely customized keynotes.
A Cambridge-educated scientist, Nick has led his own teams of highly intelligent colleagues as well as trained, coached, and developed c.100,000 senior, middle, and high-potential leaders in Fortune 500 corporations like Intel, HSBC, Virgin, and Nike. He is the co-founder of a path-finding leadership company that is reinventing leadership development and leadership training. He has spent two decades creating a cutting-edge leadership curriculum with 150+ teachable leadership tools—that work from Cell-To-System™— and has evolved an original, brain-based, and neuroscience-driven theory of transformation that underpins his work with leaders.
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 innovation and transformation. His thought-leading ideas are routinely called "game-changing," "powerful," and "profoundly practical."
Whether headlining at a conference or delivering at a top 50-500 executive event ( a real speciality of his), Nick seeks to touch the hearts and minds of all attendees—even the smartest and most successful—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, 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 / top teams—from Merck to Unilever.
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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 my keynotes on leadership, customized to specific event audiences and ambitions, I can share:
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Transforming friction and fragmentation to forge coherent and collaborative top teams.
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Building the ambition, courage, business case, momentum, and investment needed to unleash next-level leaders.
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Insights on why smartness and sharpness can hinder next-gen leadership.
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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.
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Leveraging peer support for building leaders in remote, hybrid, and in-person settings.
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Shifting how leaders interact and communicate away from control and command using scripts, circles, and embodied practices.