NICK JANKEL

Transformational keynote speaker, Expert Futurist & master Facilitator

Nick Jankel is a world authority on leading and unleashing meaningful change, innovation, adaptation, and transformation to stay fit for the ruthlessly and relentlessly changing, complex, and AI-disrupted world.

He has three decades of experience as a globally renowned and highly original thought leader, futurist, C-Suite advisor, transformation catalyst, serial entrepreneur, facilitator, and professional keynote speaker.

Nick Jankel is a virtuoso international keynote speaker and world authority on leading and unleashing change, innovation, adaptation, and transformation to help individuals and enterprises rise to the challenges of a rapidly, radically, and ruthlessly changing world. He has been recognized as a global Top 10 speaker, booked by ambitious and discerning corporations, institutions, conferences, associations, government agencies, and nations, including Google, LEGO, Biogen, Pfizer, UAE, Unilever, HP, No. 10 Downing Street, Sandia, Neom, Adobe, Abu Dhabi, Merck, BA, SAP, HSBC, and Capital One.

Nick is highly sought after for his exquisitely customized, refreshingly engaging, experiential, and Wow-making keynotes that inspire hearts, influence minds, and ignite meaningful change. A transformation keynote speaker with 30 years of experience leading leaders on the frontlines of disruption—and more than a thousand keynotes delivered—Nick has pushed the boundaries of what a keynote can do, making it the most valuable intervention an industry or organization can get, and striving to maximize ROI on a speaker.

Nick designs his keynotes to be informative, entertaining, motivational, inspirational—and genuinely transformational. As a premier leadership keynote speaker, he uniquely blends geopolitical shifts, futurist insights, the latest neuroscience of change, leadership practices, and practical takeaways that guide audiences on transformative journeys, leaving them feeling, thinking, and acting differently.

As a premier leadership keynote speaker, Nick Jankel excels at top executive meetings, leadership summits, senior off-sites, and executive retreats. He is a C-Suite whisperer, unafraid to challenge, inspire, and influence execs in the right combination to drive significant, lasting change in their organization. He boosts coherence, clarity, and collaboration in leadership teams, helping them navigate complexity, transform pressure into possibilities, find opportunities in uncertainty, and lead anxious teams through volatility in today's turbulent VUCA++ reality.

Educated in medical science and philosophy (Triple 1st/summa cum laude) at Cambridge University, Nick has created the neuroscience-led Bio-Transformation (BTX)® framework, which seeks to crack the code of human and organizational transformation. He has harnessed BTX® to coach tens of thousands of top leaders, run hundreds of breakthrough innovation and change programs within 100+ Fortune 500 companies, and to inform his own work as a serial entrepreneur of 10+ purpose-driven companies.

A seasoned futurist and futurist keynote speaker, he helps leaders explore the Future of Work, Leadership, Business, Education, Finance, and Healthcare, envision powerful alternative futures, and shape the future through their organization. As an innovation keynote speaker, he focuses on unlocking breakthrough ideas in products and business models and unlocking the human side of innovation that determines whether breakthrough ideas flourish into concrete growth or stall and fail.

Long before the AI boom, Nick pioneered AI-powered leadership and innovation programs, spending decades innovating at the intersection of artificial intelligence, exponential digital technologies, enterprise leadership, and disruptive innovation. As a leading AI keynote speaker, his thinking has evolved into his Leadership-AI Synthesis, a growing body of work that shows leaders and organizations how to bring together artificial intelligence and human wisdom to amplify, rather than diminish, human agency and judgment, expand imagination and collaboration, accelerate meaningful innovation, and unlock new possibilities through transformational leadership.

Nick has developed an AI-based leadership platform that delivers personalized, transformative leadership development journeys, and his thinking on AI has taken him from the Aspen Ideas Festival to BBC Radio. He has written 6 books on change, AI, and leadership.

Nick is incredibly powerful as a transformational speaker—yet is also fun, funny, bright, warm, witty, and approachable. His remarkably impactful keynotes—rigorously customized to fit the brief and packed with original, science-backed ideas, actionable Ah-HA! insights, and real-world examples—dazzle even the smartest minds. Every keynote he gives is tailored in content and style to amplify your event ambitions and accelerate your organizational goals.

With 250+ leadership development journeys designed and led, Nick is a highly experienced facilitator who can include a workshop session, an interactive exercise, or a deep dive to deliver unprecedented ROI from a keynote speaker budget. He helps audiences think outside the box, have personal and strategic breakthroughs, and turn their ideas into value-creation opportunities that drive growth and impact.

A master transformation coach, Nick is an extraordinarily effective pattern breaker, working with individuals, teams, organizations, and systems to break through barriers and blockers, surface and break outdated patterns from the past, and embody and embed more adaptive ways of perceiving, feeling, thinking, and acting.

His work as a transformation coach/catalyst helps leaders and organizations break free from ideas and habits that no longer serve them and spark audiences’ limitless capacity to reinvent, reimagine, and regenerate themselves and their organizations, helping people forge the future rather than fail it.

Whether headlining at a major conference, inspiring clients and prospects at a customer event, or galvanizing top leaders when they meet, Nick seeks to touch the hearts and minds of every attendee and aims to leave them not just motivated, inspired, and informed but tangibly moved to do things differently and empowered with practical tools to lead the change needed today.

Ultimately, Nick seeks to unlock hope in an audience, reconnecting people with their agency, creativity, courage, connection, and conviction that what they do really matters. He wants people to leave with the sense that, through their contribution, they can help forge a brighter, bolder, and more beautiful future and already have ideas ready to put into action after they leave.

Exquisitely Customized Talks. Hyper Engaging Storytelling. Deeply Caring About Clients. Energizing & Enlivening To Audiences. Guaranteed Wow! Factor Memorable & Transformational Moments. Unprecedented ROI.

MORE ABOUT NICK

Nick is the co-founder and CEO of global leadership consultancy Switch On Leadership (SOL). Operating worldwide, out of LDN and LAX, SOL works with major corporations (e.g., Unilever, Walgreens, Intel, HSBC, Syngenta, Kellanova, Smucker’s, AbbVie, Genentech), government agencies (e.g., Cabinet Office, NHS), and non-profits (e.g., GBC, WWF, Rockefeller Foundation, Oxfam).

With his team at SOL, Nick strives to craft the most transformative and, thus, effective leadership, teamwork, innovation, and culture change programs on the planet. Over 25 years, SOL has invented game-changing ways to unlock truly transformational leadership, breakthrough innovations, and exceptional teamwork.

Nick draws upon his company’s comprehensive leadership curriculum, advanced innovation methodology, and transformative tools and practices to meet keynote briefs. As a result of this vast library of cutting-edge IP, he can deliver keynotes on topics like purpose, coping with uncertainty, transformational leadership, innovation, changing mindsets, and storytelling with rigor, power, and credibility.

A polymath who has relentlessly explored what makes people tick from as many angles as possible, Nick stands apart from other speakers. His thinking and tools have been utilized to coach and train over 100,000 leaders in Fortune 500s, and he has designed and led 100+ breakthrough innovation programs for multinationals. He is a seasoned professional futurist with over 50 foresight projects under his belt, and he has founded 10 pathfinding and pioneering start-ups in the fields of change, leadership, empowerment, and transformation.

Nick has coached, advised, and empowered 100,000+ Fortune 500 leaders, start-ups/scale-up founders, local/national political leaders, policymakers, and changemakers. He has led 100+ disruptive innovation programs, incl. catalyzing the most successful TV show of all time. He has contributed to billions of dollars of inclusive growth and outsized value creation.

Nick has written a number of successful books, lectured at Yale, UC Berkeley, and Oxford, appeared in The Times and The Economist, written a column in the FT, been invited to speak as a thought leader at Talks@Google and Aspen Ideas Festival, and starred as a transformation coach and TV host on two hit global TV shows (BBC, MTV). He wrote and executive produced a TV show greenlit for US network television on transforming businesses, with himself as the transformation coach and host.

Since studying medical science, Nick has been dedicated to cracking the code of human and organizational change. As a result, he has developed an original and robust theory—Bio-Transformation® or BTX®—for driving individual, organizational, and systemic change as fast as humanly possible by working with, not against, human biology and culture.

As a trained scientist and philosopher of science, Nick uses the latest neuroscience to inspire even the most critical thinkers and win over even the most demanding audiences (e.g., engineers, educators, clinicians, technologists, lawyers, and financiers). His thinking and tools can be relied upon to transform outdated yet change-resistant behaviors and mindsets.

Nick is a groundbreaking theorist and master practitioner of transformational/ conscious/ creative leadership and breakthrough/ disruptive/ transformative innovation, the two most powerful technologies for ensuring organizations adapt to relentless change, survive ruthless disruption, and deliver exponential value-creation.

In a twenty-five-year speaking career, Nick has become a genuinely virtuoso speaker, crafting a unique fusion of exhilarating ideas, empowering tips, and an enlivening stage presence. He goes way beyond information, education, and motivation to inspire, accelerate, and transform. In addition to dazzling 45-minute keynotes, Nick has pushed keynote speaking to the limits to deliver unprecedented ROI for clients through experiential keynotes and interactive keynotes with workshop elements.

Nick takes the science, art, and craft of keynote speaking profoundly seriously and sees keynotes as an under-appreciated and underutilized tool for driving concrete change in organizations and across networks/ associations/ systems. He has delivered for organizations as diverse as Pfizer, LEGO, Tesco, Kellogg’s, AstraZeneca, NHS, Schroder’s, WWF, Aspen Ideas Festival, Talks@Google, and CHRO Summit, showcasing his ability to cater to the unique needs of different industries and event types. Nick relishes the unique challenges of top 20-500 senior leader and executive events and customer sales events and user conferences.