GLOBAL top 10 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Nick Jankel is a virtuoso international keynote speaker, a world authority on unlocking meaningful change and innovation, and the creator of the neuroscience-led BTX® Method for leading transformation in individuals and organizations as fast as humanly possible.
Selected as a Top 10 speaker by MSN, Nick is booked by ambitious and discerning corporations, institutions, conferences, associations, and nations—Google, LEGO, Nike, Pfizer, Biogen, UAE, Unilever, HP, No.10 Downing Street—who want exquisitely customized, WOW!-inspiring keynotes that captivate hearts, ignite minds, and unlock change.
A true thought leader in innovation, futuring, leadership, and transformation—and the author of Now Lead the Change—Nick is pushing the boundaries of what a keynote can do to deliver an unprecedented ROI for you.
With warmth, wisdom, and wit, Nick leads change from the stage—updating mindsets, rewiring cultures, and inviting attendees to switch on, step up, and shape the future together.
FORGE THE FUTURE. DON'T FAIL IT.
LEADING IN CHANGE & COMPLEXITY
UNLOCKING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION & INNOVATION
THE FUTURE OF WORK, HEALTH, TECH & LEADERSHIP
CAPTIVATE HEARTS > IGNITE MINDS > INSPIRE CHANGE. NAVIGATE UNCERTAINTY. COPE WITH COMPLEXITY. ADAPT TO DISRUPTION. UNBLOCK INNOVATION. UNLEASH TRANSFORMATION. INSPIRE OPTIMISM. LEAD THE CHANGE. WIN THE FUTURE.
top keynote speaker with RAVE REVIEWS
Nick had a pronounced and profound impact.
Exceptional!
President
Kellogg’s North America
Nick was the highlight of the 2-day conference and made it worth going to. Thought-provoking, insightful, and very enjoyable.
Director
Rothschild & Co
My team couldn't speak more highly of the impact Nick made on them. His ideas have now become common language, with leaders challenging one another with them. This is in addition to the non-stop feedback I received after the event, which has been outstanding.
Nick Jankel is a true inspiration and motivational presence!
Executive Vice-President
Biogen
A remarkable keynote speech at our 2025 Chairman’s Dinner. Nick's insights on change—its complexity, its necessity, and its immense potential—resonated deeply. Many of the guests shared how inspired they felt, particularly in his ability to connect strategic transformation with human leadership in such a compelling and energising way and with intelligence, humour, and vision.
CEO & Head of the Management Board
ABBL - The Luxembourg Bankers' Association
Very impressed! I'm taking his ideas into my organization to move the transformation forward. I highly recommend Nick as a speaker.
Senior Vice-President
HP
Nick's keynote speech at our global leadership summit was inspirational. Makes you think in a different way and adapt your leadership style.
Global Chief Privacy Officer
Arcadis
some of mainstage speaker Nick Jankel's
UNIQUE 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
global network tv shows written / hosted
2
top degrees in medical science & Philosophy of science (summa cum laude, Cambridge)
1
original science-backed theory of change: BTX®
Leading Inspirational Speaker Driving Transformation providing an Unprecedented ROI
Electrifying, Energizing & HYPER-ENGAGING "WOW!" & "Ah-hA!" Keynotes
ORIGINAL Science-BACKED IDEAS, ACTIONABLE Ah-HA! INSIGHTS & Real-world EXAMPLES
Exquisitely Customized to fit your brief & ELEVATE YOUR EVENT
TAKEAWAY TOOLS & PRACTICAL HACKS THAT TURN INSPIRATION INTO ACTION
POPULAR KEYNOTE TOPICS
(Always Customized To Your Event)
ABOUT NICK JANKEL
Virtuoso motivational & inspirational keynote speaker
EXPERT FUTURIST & EXPERIENCED Facilitator
world authority on LEADING & UNLEASHING Change, Innovation & Transformation
Nick is a sought-after and highly experienced keynote speaker, futurist, thought leader, and transformative facilitator at the very top of his game.
With almost 30 years of experience on the frontlines of disruption, he is a world authority on leading, embracing, and unleashing change, innovation, and transformation to ensure organizations adapt to the increasingly volatile, uncertain, and complex world.
An entrepreneur since the age of 24, Nick has founded 10+ purpose-led start-ups at the intersection of innovation, leadership, sustainability, creativity, and impact. He has developed his own theory of change, BTX®, that he has used to train c.100,000 leaders, power 250+ leadership development programs, and drive 100+ breakthrough innovation programs for Fortune 500s.
A seasoned professional futurist, Nick has developed a unique approach that fuses scenario planning and systems thinking with his own disruptive innovation and co-creation protocols. He helps leaders explore what is possible, problematic, and preferable in the Future of Work, Leadership, Healthcare, Built Environment, Learning, and more.
Nick is CEO of SOL, a high-touch, high-integrity leadership consultancy that helps organizations to forge the future, and not fail it, by expanding the consciousness and capabilities of their leaders. The team achieves this through experiential leadership development programs and journeys designed to transform mindsets, behaviors, and cultures. Clients include Novartis, AbbVie, Oxfam, Unilever, Kellanova.
At SOL, Nick has generated cutting-edge leadership IP, including a full-stack Self-to-System transformational leadership curriculum, 100+ transformation tools, brain-based practices, and group processes that deliver lasting change. He is at the forefront of leveraging P2P, AI, ML & emerging tech to democratize and personalize leadership development journeys. He is also a highly experienced facilitator and transformation catalyst.
Nick's remarkably impactful keynotes—exquisitely customized to fit your brief and packed with original science-backed ideas, actionable Ah-HA! insights, and real-world examples—captivate cynical hearts, dazzle even the smartest minds, and ignite concrete change.
With each keynote tailored in content and style to amplify your ambitions, Nick seeks to simplify complexity, reduce the paralysis of uncertainty, and take the pain out of change and transformation. He aims to leave audiences not just motivated, inspired, and informed but tangibly moved to do things differently—and empowered with practical tools to start the change today.
With a restless commitment to generating an unprecedented ROI from your investment in a speaker, he has innovated customer-centric and value-creating new speaking formats, such as experiential keynotes and keynotes with interactive workshop sessions.
Whether headlining a major conference, inspiring your users and customers, or galvanizing your top 10-500 leaders, Nick seeks to touch the hearts and minds of every attendee and inspire them to rethink, reimagine, and rejuvenate. His thought-leading talks are routinely called "visionary" and"profound," yet also "practical" and "immediately useful.”
Forge the future.
Don’t fail it.
nick has been FEATURED IN
IDEAL events to book nick for
Top 10-500 executive EVENTS & leadership Off-sites
TECH user
conferences &
Customer
Events
Functions, Brands & Business Unit events
leading Industry Conferences
sales team events & company growth events
association & membership network events
NICK has SPOKEN At THESE
PRESTIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS
popular articles from NICK's blog on thought leadership, keynote speaking, facilitation & FUTURISM
600%
Transformational leaders deliver 6x results of average leaders. Yet 93% of top execs say their organization does not build effective leaders, and 90% say leadership development does not achieve concrete business results.
125%
While engaged employees are 44% more productive than satisfied ones, inspired employees are +125% more productive! Yet at least 60% of employees are disengaged, costing the economy 9% of GDP each year.
80%
More than eight out of ten leaders are outmatched by the VUCA reality they must lead within, with only 8% able to lead and land innovation and business transformation.
40%+
Four out of every ten global CEOs say that their business model will not be viable in 10 years due to disruption. Yet the vast majority of legacy corporations utterly fail at breakthrough innovation.
