#1 leadership Speaker on transformational & Adaptive leadership: win the future together!
Looking for a top Leadership Keynote Speaker and an expert on leading change and leading in change, complexity, uncertainty, and chaos for your next event or top 50-500 senior leaders gathering?
Nick is a specialist at top executive gatherings, delivering cutting-edge leaership content while also building coherence and unleashing momentum in senior leaders and top teams. Nick has 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 pioneering leadership company that is reinventing leadership development. He has spent two decades creating a cutting-edge transformational leadership curriculum that includes 150+ takeaway leadership tools that he can provide with a keynote. He has created an original, brain-based, and neuroscience-driven theory of transformation that underpins his work with leaders.
#1 leadership keynote Speaker
Looking for an outstanding keynote speaker on leadership to inspire leaders to drive outsized impact, AI-elevated performance, team effectiveness, and adaptive change and digital transformation—as they master how to cope with complexity, deal with uncertainty, and lead through volatility?
Nick Jankel is a virtuoso and transformative keynote speaker, a specialist in top 10-500 executive meetings and leadership off-sites, and a world authority on the future-fit leadership capabilities required to lead in and through change in today's turbulent VUCA++ reality.
A 10x founder and the creator of the neuroscience-led BTX® method for leading transformation as fast as humanly possible, Nick has led 100+ digital-first innovation and transformation programs on the frontlines of disruption and coached and trained c.100,000 leaders in transformational and future-fit leadership.
Nick’s leadership keynotes can integrate geopolitical trends, how to collaborate and compete with AI, innovation and growth opportunities, high-performance yet human cultures, and future-fit leadership skills.
Premier leadership keynote speaker
with RAVE REVIEWS from execs
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
LEADERSHIP KEYNOTE SPEAKER themes
Leading & DECISION-MAKING In COMPLEXITY, turbulence & UNCERTAINTY
leading in change & leading through change
LEADING
AI-Forward change, innovation & Digital
Transformation
Collaborating with AI For high performance (without losing trust)
how to beat VUCA with future-fit Leadership skills & mindsets
leading Languishing teams to Change & transform using inspiration, influence & empathy
how to Lead Teams to hustle without losing Ur humanity
Deploying Artificial intelligence in a saFe, structured & huMan-scale Way
leading HYbrid, office-based, remote & distributed teams
Very relevant to LEGO’s values and purpose and highlighted the importance of creativity within the culture and leadership team.
CEO
LEGO
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
Nick makes you think about the important things!
CEO
ArcelorMittal Steel
Exactly what we wanted. Our CEO has been quoting Nick’s thinking to all our leaders.
Director,
Oxford University
highly-experienced leadership expert specializing in senior leadership TEAM off-sites & top 10-500 executive events
Classic high-impact 40-45 min keynotes + MORE interactive & experiential formats with space for leaders to reflect, integrate & contribute
leadership keynotes that integrate geo-political risks, AI deployment, high-performance cultures & future-fit leadership skills & tools
Cutting-edge leadership content
within engaging experiential
Journeys that build coherence, clarity & momentum in leaders
Leading Inspirational Speaker In Future-Fit Leadership 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
top leadership keynote SPEAKER for Corporate events
sample leadership talking points & take aways (always CUSTOMIZED TO YOUR EVENT)
How to lead mission-critical change, AI-powered innovation, and digital transformation that keeps organizations competitive in relentlessly and ruthlessly changing markets.
Leading in change and leading through volatility by boosting transformational leadership skills and wisely leveraging Artificial Intelligence tools.
How to master "ambidextrous" leadership to easily switch between high performance results and critical reflection, adaptation, and innovation.
How to shift from fearing, resisting, and resenting change to embracing it as an opportunity for both the mastery of personal leadership and digital transformation and breakthrough innovation.
Tools to sense-make, decision-make, and prioritize in uncertainty, complexity, volatility, chaos, and crisis—so leaders focus on meaningful actions that drive impact and growth.
Move away from “command and control”, fiefdoms, friction, and fragmentation to unlock cohesion, coherence, and clarity in top teams and beyond.
How to stop burnout and micromanagement by building skills in effective delegation, empowerment, influence, inspiration, collaboration, storytelling, and ethical persuasion.
How to build customer-centric mindsets to keep up with fast-changing customer needs, desires, and expactations + tools that unlock customer-centric decisions and insights.
How to lead distributed, hybrid, and remote teams to deliver high-performance through calm and candid communication, intrinsic motivation, and human-centric cultures.
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
some of Nick's UNIQUE
LEADERSHIP 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
presidents & prime ministers advised
2
top degrees in medical science & Philosophy of science (summa cum laude, Cambridge)
1
original science-backed theory of change: bio-TRANSFORMATION®
author, thought leader & WORLD authority On adaptive, TRANSFORMATIONAL & FUTURE-FIT LEADERSHIP
Nick Jankel is a top 10 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 development.
Nick is a highly experienced and sought-after mainstage, motivational, and inspirational keynote speaker on future-fit and next-level leadership. A Cambridge-educated scientist, Nick has led many teams of highly intelligent and challenging colleagues as well as led, trained, coached, and developed c.100,000 senior, middle, and high-potential leaders in Fortune 500 corporations like Unilever, HSBC, Virgin, and Nike.
Nick is the co-founder of a pioneering leadership company that has been disrupting and reinventing leadership development for 20 years. In this capacity, Nick spent two decades creating a cutting-edge leadership curriculum with 150+ teachable leadership tools—from Cell-To-System™. To underpin all this work. he has evolved an original, rigorous, and neuroscience-driven theory of leadership development, Bio-Transformation®.
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 leaders from delivering innovation and transformation. His thought-leading ideas are routinely called "game-changing," "powerful," and "profoundly practical."
Whether headlining at a conference or engaging the top 10-500 execs at an important event (a specialty of his), Nick seeks to touch the hearts and minds of all attendees 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— including Now Lead The Change—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 teams from San Francisco to Shanghai.
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transformational leadership in vuca++ TOPIC TEASER VIDEo & IDEAS
Truly transformational leaders deliver 600% the results of average ones if 70% of an organization’s leadership behaviors are responsive as opposed to reactive, profit is in the top 10% of companies, yet over 80% of leaders are outmatched by the VUCA reality, and only 8% can deliver change and transformation effectively in today’s VUCA world...