MOTIVATIONAL KEYNOTE SPEAKER on Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship
Looking for an inspiring, powerful, authentic, and highly-experienced Entrepreneurship Keynote Speaker and an expert on building intrapreneurial mindsets for your next event?
With 25+ years of experience supporting both start-ups and major corporations, Nick Jankel shares what motivates and maintains his own journey of serial entrepreneurship as well as insights and tools to help everyone be more adaptive, nimble, and visionary to forge the future as they deliver on the need for performance in the present.
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.
How entrepreneurs must hold a bold long-term vision of what is possible to forge the future of their industry while at the same time driving high-quality and efficient execution with rigorous attention to detail.
Discover the core characteristics of a "Founder’s Mindset" and how it can be stimulated in organizations (and in society) to unleash agency, accountability, business acumen, responsibility, care, agility, coping with complexity, comfort with uncertainty, and velocity.
Ways to spot, motivate, and nurture potential entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs—and how to develop their skills and capabilities as leaders and innovators within an organization.
How to create the right conditions for intrapreneurs to innovate within risk-averse corporations and institutions that tend to crush creativity and kill innovation even as they seek it.
How to provide the freedom and flexibility needed for entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship to flourish—as well as clear guidance and guardrails to prevent damaging mistakes, painful failures, and too much disruption.
Why conventional performance management structures and incentivization techniques will likely crush the energy, intrinsic motivation, and momentum of intrapreneurs—and how to avoid wasting their precious resources and discretionary energy.
How to build a personal brand as an intrapreneur/entrepreneur to gain attention and so resources—and how to use entrepreneurship as the best personal and leadership development program money cannot buy.
Ways to weed out the charlatans and ensure your projects are supported by bakers with aligned values and common cause—to avoid the high costs of resource withdrawal.
Top Keynote Speaker on Entrepreneurship & Corporate intrapreneurship
Nick Jankel is a global top 50 keynote speaker who has spent his career on the frontlines of digital disruption, both as a serial purpose-driven entrepreneur who started his first enterprise when he was just 24 and as a high-level adviser and thought leader in transformational leadership, digital transformation, and business model innovation.
Nick has 25+ years of experience supporting both start-ups and major corporations (e.g. Disney, Diageo, Nike, Chevron, Novartis) to transform and three decades of hard-won expertise founding 10 pioneering and pathfinding start-ups within the innovation, leadership, and transformation space. In recognition of his success, the UK Prime Minister's Office made him a National Ambassador for Entrepreneurship. Various major universities (e.g., Yale, UC Berkeley, London Business School, UCL, Warwick, Lancaster, Bath, NUS, SciencesPo), non-profits (e.g., Arthur Guinness Fund, Acumen, Ashoka), and government agencies have asked him to teach their entrepreneurs how to innovate, lead, and deliver on their vision and purpose.
Nick is a sought-after keynote speaker in entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship and speaks passionately about harnessing his decades-long experience as a fast-moving entrepreneur to not just leave an impact on those he has worked with and for but as a developmental leadership journey in its own right as he challenges himself with each new start-up to push himself to the next level of maturity, integrity, aliveness, and creativity.
Nick is an award-winning author and has been a TV host and coach on two global TV shows. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society For Arts (FRSA) in his 20s as recognition of his work.
WATCH NICK's ENTREPRENEURSHIP SPEAKER TEASER VIDEo
Research shows that the USA is considered the best place on Earth to be an entrepreneur, with 90% of new American billionaires being self-made entrepreneurs. Approximately 60% of managers express support for entrepreneurs within organizations. However, only a third of workers feel they have the freedom, flexibility, and resources. Tragically, top companies, while boasting about recruiting top talent, often fail to provide the necessary space, tools, and budgets for these individuals to solve organizational problems through entrepreneurship.
Personally, I absolutely love being an entrepreneur. Few things are more exciting than waking up in the morning, spotting an opportunity, seizing it, and making progress toward your vision by the end of the day. Over 25 years, I have been a serial purpose-driven entrepreneur, thriving even in challenging times. I established a fast-growth Innovation agency and accelerator at the age of 25 without capital or backers.
Surviving four recessions, I attribute my success to the power of entrepreneurship to innovate our way out of any problem. I have also navigated entrepreneurial burnout, finding the right mindset and everyday practices needed for relentless entrepreneurialism. Chosen as a UK Ambassador for entrepreneurship, I’ve supported numerous ambitious enterprises worldwide, unlocking their best potential.
Taking your brief, I commit to working tirelessly to amplify your messages and innovate your ambitions while remaining independent as a thought leader, challenger, and aspirer. Each of my keynotes is customized to meet and exceed expectations, connecting with your specific audience to unleash energy, momentum, inspiration, and traction.
I can share insights on:
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How anyone in any organization can develop a founder’s mindset, boosting agency, accountability, and self-authorship.
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How entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs can fall in love with a problem, spending years developing bold ideas and executing them effectively.
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Insights on balancing the freedom and flexibility that unlock entrepreneurship with guidance and guardrails, preventing disorder and damage.
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Spotting, motivating, and nurturing potential entrepreneurs, providing them with the right conditions to innovate and disrupt.
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Why today’s performance management techniques may crush the energy and momentum you want from entrepreneurs and how to share the rewards as well as the risks.
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The aim is to make entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship a sustainable win-win-win – a win for the employee, a win for the organization, and a win for our world.
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