World-Class Retreat, Off-Site & Event Facilitation
From high-level executive retreats and leadership off-sites to multi-stakeholder events and 5,000-person conferences, Nick Jankel designs and facilitates workshops and interactive experiences that unlock change, deepen alignment, build coherence, shift mindsets and behaviors, boost collaboration across functions and organizations, unleash lasting transformation, and drive high-value outcomes toward ambitious goals.


Master Workshop Facilitator
Most executive retreats, leadership off-sites, and team workshops generate plenty of discussion. Few create the clarity, courage, coherence, trust, breakthrough ideas, collective decisions, and engaged momentum needed to drive lasting, significant change.
With the costs of convening people rising, Nick Jankel facilitates California-based leadership off-sites, executive retreats, innovation workshops, strategy sessions, AI enablement workshops, and transformation gatherings designed to drive meaningful progress toward ambitious goals.
Equally at home with CEOs and founders, technologists and creatives, investors and customers, introverts and big personalities, blue-chip leaders and start-up teams, Nick is celebrated for his mastery in guiding executives, leaders, investors, Boards, and team members through change, innovation, and transformation.
With decades of experience running high-stakes workshops and high-level off-sites, Nick is trusted by leading California corporations and organizations—including Google, Disney, Sony, EA, Intel, Genentech, and HP—to design and deliver customized workshops that inspire hearts, ignite minds, and spark meaningful change.
Unlock Game-changing Ideas & LASTING IMPACT at your off-site, workshop, Or Retreat
Are you looking for a highly experienced, exec-ready facilitator for events, workshops, or executive retreats who can guide your participants toward transformative outcomes?
Discerning workshop organizers, leadership teams, associations, scale-ups, blue-chip companies, and leading institutions bring in Nick Jankel when the stakes are too high for a “nice” workshop, an "interesting" conversation, or a standard facilitation approach.
A leadership off-site, executive retreat, strategy session, innovation workshop, AI enablement lab, or multi-stakeholder summit represents a major investment of time, money, attention, and opportunity cost. Nick’s work is designed to ensure that investment becomes a catalyst for alignment, innovation, transformation, collaboration, and massive action.
Nick Jankel seamlessly blends science, storytelling, strategy, facilitation craft, and brain-based "Deep Design" to deliver workshops that catalyze real change. He brings a rare capacity to work fluently with CEOs, CXOs, founders, investors, board members, senior leaders, customers, collaborators, and cross-functional teams without being fazed by hierarchy, seniority, status, or power.
With ambitious goals, the loudest voices can dominate, to the detriment of the mission. The usual suspects can speak for too long, obscuring game-changing ideas and insights from quieter participants, technical experts, frontline leaders, customers, or partners.
Nick’s facilitation style ensures that the whole room becomes smarter. He draws out the intelligence of the wider system, sharpens strategic debate, makes space for what needs to be said, and helps different kinds of thinkers, listeners, processors, skeptics, visionaries, analysts, creatives, introverts, and power-holders contribute in ways that move the group forward.
Nick Jankel's approach is especially valuable for strategy upgrades, AI enablement, transformation to cope with disruption, culture change, innovation acceleration, leadership development sessions, post-merger alignment, investor and customer summits, and systemic collaboration involving multiple organizations.
From intimate executive retreats in beautiful venues to high-energy leadership off-sites, from innovation workshops in Silicon Valley to creative strategy sessions in New York, Nick brings warmth, wit, wisdom, and a rigorous process for turning time together into meaningful progress.
Nick’s neuroscience-led BTX® approach helps bring emotions, thoughts, relationships, and actions into coherence, clarity, and focused change. He integrates brain-based tools, embodied practices, strategic frameworks, group exercises, peer-to-peer methods, and carefully sequenced facilitation to make workshops more than discussion. They become structured interventions that shift mindsets, relationships, decisions, behaviors, and outcomes.
Nick can work as elegantly with technologists as he can with creatives, execs as much as interns, analysts as easily as visionaries, founders as much as corporate leaders, introverts as well as big personalities, investors or customers, academics and operators, and politicians as much as citizens.
Whether moderating a senior leadership off-site, facilitating an executive retreat, designing a breakthrough innovation workshop, or guiding a multi-stakeholder strategy session, Nick helps participants think with clarity, relate with courage, collaborate with trust, and leave with concrete momentum.
He understands that different participants listen, think, process, challenge, and contribute in different ways, and he designs the experience so those differences become a source of intelligence rather than friction.
Nick helps organizations make every minute of in-person time count by unlocking insight, alignment, collaboration, and action. No time is wasted on generic exercises, circular debate, or “interesting conversations” that go nowhere. Every prompt, practice, breakout, reflection, challenge, and plenary exchange is intentionally crafted to deepen trust, sharpen decisions, surface breakthrough ideas, and create momentum that lasts well beyond the event.
With Nick designing and facilitating, your event will become more than a meeting. It will be a carefully designed catalyst for clarity, courage, coherence, trust, breakthrough thinking, collective intelligence, accountable decision-making, and lasting change.


Expert in high-Impact & high-stakes Facilitation
Executive retreats
leadership off-sites
strategy resets & upgrades
innovation workshops
multi-stakeholder convening
change & transformation initiatives
Customer & investor events
Function, Product, brand & Business unit team meetings
Virtual & in-Person town halls
Keynote Speaking + Interactive workshop Sessions
Most keynote speakers deliver ideas and inspiration. Few can flip the script from speaker to facilitator and design and lead interactive workshop experiences that transform the hearts and minds of participants.
As well as being a globally trusted leadership keynote speaker, innovation keynote speaker, change keynote speaker, and futurist, Nick Jankel is an expert event facilitator who goes far beyond broadcast speaking to design and host high-impact workshop sessions that take his big and bold ideas and frameworks and put them to work on real business and leadership challenges.
From intimate executive retreats to large-scale global conferences, Nick doesn’t just speak to audiences; he works with them in real time, turning insights into action plans and conversations into breakthroughs.
With 30 years of experience facilitating high-stakes workshops, innovation programs, and leadership development journeys for companies like Microsoft, Unilever, PlayStation, LEGO, and Diageo, Nick Jankel brings the precision of a scientist and the intuition of a master coach to every room.
Nick moves seamlessly between keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, and experience designer, shifting from telling to listening, from performance to presence, from content to connection, from delivery to dialogue, and from shared stories to collective action.
Key BENEFITS OF WORKING WITH NICK Jankel AS YOUR Event & Workshop FACILITATOR
Make the most out of your investment in a speaker with an interactive workshop session that puts Thought Leadership to Work on practical challenges
use your event not just to educate & inform but also to shift & transform
plants seeds of change that accelerate
performance, teamwork & growth Way beyond the event
Turn information & inspiration into group Reflection & Concrete Actions
Make Sure your Attendees feel welcomed, valued & that their voice has been heard
Provide proprietary Practical tools to participants to learn in the workshop & use forever after
rapidly win the hearts & minds of attendees so you can achieve bold event ambitions that accelerate the change Needed
inspire & challenge people to shift from receiving (leaning back) to contributing (leaning In)
ensure attendees share, engage, connect & collaborate as much as listen & learn
Provide your Particpants with a Selection of 150+ TAKEAWAY LEADERSHIP, INNOVATION, STRATEGY, TEAMWORK & EMPoWERMENT TOOLS
Nick Jankel’s interactive keynotes don’t just motivate and inspire. They can also equip audiences with practical, transformative tools that have been designed and refined over decades to reliably unlock creativity, collaboration, change, and innovation during the event and after.
Each neuroscience-based tool helps participants crack real leadership, innovation, and change challenges. Delivered as a beautiful 1-page printout, every tool offers a practical method for turning insight into impact. Attendees practice using them during the session, alone or in groups, and then can use them for a lifetime.
Below are some examples of Nick's tools.




Nick's 30 years of FACILITATION
& Hosting EXPERIENCE
100K+
Leaders & People Managers COACHED & TRAINED
1000+
workshops designed & facilitated
500+
focus groups Hosted
100+
Innovation & Systems Change Programs DESIGNED & LED
master WOrkshop facilitator
NICK JANKEL
10,000+ HOURS running hundreds of innovation workshops, leadership programs, high-level collective processes, market research groups & HOSTING TV HOSWS & LARGE PUBLIC EVENTS
Nick Jankel is a highly experienced facilitator and host who can bring people of all backgrounds and mindsets into coherence and find a way to bring a group into resonance even after tensions. Nick facilitates workshops and events in person and online all over the world.
A Cambridge-educated scientist and philosopher (Triple 1st/summa cum laude), Nick has been leading both small and large groups to sense-make together, co-create, innovate, transform conflict, and unlock collaboration since 1996. He has designed and led high-stakes workshops on every continent and can find common ground with all kinds of character types, no matter how senior and powerful they are.
Nick has designed, led, and directed 1000s of focus groups with every kind of human being imaginable—from Sao Paolo to Singapore—learning how to honor each person's contribution while ensuring everyone's voice is heard and respected.
He has hosted a number of complex, multi-stakeholder processes of senior leaders, thought leaders, philanthropists, politicians, entrepreneurs, and subject matter experts, mastering how to involve everyone, regardless of their personality or cultural heritage, and proactively managing louder voices and more confident types.
As a media personality, Nick presented/hosted three network TV shows and written scores of TV treatments for the US and UK markets. He has hosted leadership development, personal development, and mass market media events from Shanghai to San Francisco and has MC'ed events with world-famous celebrities like Adele. He is not phased by fame, seniority, or success and aims to bring the best out of everyone as they meet, gather, convene, and converse.
Whether facilitating a conference, business unit gathering, or a top 20-500 leadership event, Nick seeks to touch the hearts and minds of all attendees and inspire them to rethink, reimagine, and rejuvenate so they rise to their challenges with more creativity, clarity, and courage than ever. Nick reliably hosts warm-hearted, energizing, enjoyable, and outcome-oriented events at the intersection of technology, futurology, leadership, collaboration, transformation, and innovation.




























