#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 leadership keynote speaker to inspire your leaders to drive outsized impact, restless high performance, and critical 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 leading in and through change in today's turbulent VUCA++ reality.
The creator of the neuroscience-led BTX® method for leading transformation, Nick has led 100+ innovation and digital 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 integrate geo-political risks, innovation and growth opportunities, AI deployment, high-performance cultures, and future-fit leadership skills.
RAVE REVIEWS FROM C-LEVEL & SENIOR LEADERS
Nick had a pronounced and profound impact on my top 200.
Exceptional!
President
Kellogg’s North America
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
My Senior Leadership Team couldn't speak more highly of the impact Nick made. His ideas have become common language and I have received non-stop feedback, 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 [C-Level] guests shared how inspired they felt, particularly in his ability to connect strategic transformation with human leadership in such a compelling and energizing way and with intelligence, humor, and vision.
CEO & Head of the Management Board
ABBL - The Luxembourg Bankers' Association
nick's essential LEADERSHIP KEYNOTE SPEAKER themes for 2025
Leading & DECISION-MAKING In Change, COMPLEXITY, turbulence & UNCERTAINTY
leading in change & leading through change & Volatility
LEADING SUCCESSFUL
change, innovation & Digital
Transformation to adapt to change
Leading every day with AI in a responsible and human-centric way
how to beat "bani" by forging a "meta" mindset that embraces change
leading change-exhausted teams to transform using inspiration, influence & empathy
how to hustle without losing humanity in the hybrid workplace
inspiring a customer-centric mindset to keep up with customer's changing needs & expectations
leading office-based, remote & distributed teams through culture & coherence
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
GET AN Unprecedented ROI:
4 reasons to book Nick as your leadership KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Electrifying, Energizing & HYPER-ENGAGING "WOW" Keynotes +
immersive & Experiential formats that engage even the most "seen-it-all-before" leaders
ORIGINAL Science-BACKED leadership thinking, ACTIONABLE Ah-HA! INSIGHTS & Real-world EXAMPLES
Exquisitely Customized leadership KEYNOTES to fit your brief & ELEVATE the ambitions of your leaders
TAKEAWAY leadership TOOLS & PRACTICAL leadership HACKS THAT TURN INSPIRATION INTO ACTION & start leaders leading the change
top leadership keynote SPEAKER for events
sample leadership talking points & take aways (always CUSTOMIZED TO YOUR EVENT)
How to lead mission-critical change, AI-enhanced workflows, future-fit innovation, and digital transformation that keeps organizations competitive in relentlessly and ruthlessly changing markets.
Leading in change and leading through volatility through enhanced inner stability, purpose, and resilience, so leaders fall forward together—not backward alone—under pressure.
How to master "ambidextrous" and change-ready leadership by easily switching between Get Stuff Done Mode and reflection, adaptation, and innovation Mode.
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.
Stop 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.
YOU ARE THE ONE YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR TO win the future.
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...