#1 KEYNOTE SPEAKER On the Future of Leadership
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.
seasoned specialist at senior leadership & top 10-500 events
Classic high-impact keynotes or interactive formats with time for reflection & participation—alone & together
optional workshop sessions with takeaway tools that build leadership skills
Cutting-edge content but also engaging
journies that Boost coherence, challenge complacency & build momentum
AN Unprecedented ROI:
4 reasons to book Nick as your leadership KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Electrifying, Energizing & HYPER-ENGAGING "WOW" Keynotes —including
immersive & Experiential formats
Nick is a virtuoso speaker who harnesses the science, art, and craft of storytelling to open up portals of possibility for your audience. His emotional courage, passion for his work, and conviction in his science-backed, ground-in-gritty-reality ideas will invite attendees of all persuasions to enter possibility spaces with him and experience their work and the world anew. His style can engage even the most tired and cynical"seen-it-all-before" attendees and spark fires of resolve in their bellies. His keynotes ignite meaningful conversations and memorable connections between attendees that can last well beyond the keynote.
ORIGINAL Science-BACKED IDEAS, ACTIONABLE Ah-HA! INSIGHTS & Real-world EXAMPLES
Each keynote Nick gives blends evidence-based and neuroscience-powered thought leadership, bold yet useful ideas, and hard-won experience drawn from 30 years of work on the frontlines of disruption, supporting 100+ Fortune 500 corporations, major institutions, and start-ups crack innovation, transformation, change management, and exceptional leadership. Nick is particularly good at getting smart people (e.g., execs, engineers, scientists, professionals, technologists, etc.) to engage in a keynote fully and always holds the intention to ignite multiple Ah-Ha! moments for each attendee.
Exquisitely Customized KEYNOTES to fit your brief & ELEVATE YOUR EVENT
Every keynote Nick designs and delivers is crafted to fit your specific event goals and context, speak to your business needs and strategy, and connect with your unique audience type and culture. The resulting tailored keynote content and delivery style is intended to amplify and accelerate your specific event ambitions, drive the biggest impact possible for you and for your attendees, and deliver beyond expectations for the work a keynote can do.
TAKEAWAY TOOLS & PRACTICAL HACKS THAT TURN INSPIRATION INTO ACTION
Nick can include and share powerful tools and short yet effective mindset practices (from his world-class leadership and innovation firm) that attendees can put to work in the hours, weeks, and years after your event. His tools and practices can turn inspiration into action out in the world and are designed to ignite meaningful change. Attendees will be given a way to access his materials, which they can use to switch on their teams and colleagues to some of Nick's ideas, cascading the impact across their organizations.
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.
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
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.
leadership keynote speaker on the future of leadership TEASER VIDEo
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.