#1 keynote speaker ON TRANSFORMATION
Looking for an inspiring, powerful, and deeply knowledgeable keynote speaker on leading digital and business transformation for your next event?
Nick Jankel is a virtuoso keynote speaker—recently selected as a top 10 speaker by MSN—a world authority on leading transformation, and the creator of the neuroscience-led BTX® Method for driving individual, organizational, and systemic transformation as fast as humanly possible.
With 25+ years of experience supporting organizations on the frontlines of digital disruption, and three decades investigating the science of change after studying medicine at Cambridge, Nick Jankel has cracked the code of transformation—and is on a mission to share the most potent insights and most practical tools with your audience.
RAVE REVIEWS:
What clients say
Nick had a pronounced and profound impact.
Exceptional!
President
Kellogg’s North America
Nick was the highlight of the 2-day conference. He 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
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
specialist at top 10-500 executive events & leadership off-sites
Classic high-impact 40-45 min keynotes or interactive keynotes with time for reflection & participation
optional workshop session with takeaway tools that build transformation skills
Cutting-edge content within engaging
journeys that accelerate change, challenge complacency & build momentum
AN Unprecedented ROI:
4 top reasons to book Nick as your transformation 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.
some of Nick's UNIQUE
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
100K+
SENIOR Leaders COACHED & DEVELOPED
150+
takeaway leadership & INNOVATION tools created
100+
FORTUNE 500 Innovation & transformation Programs LED
10+
Purpose-Driven Enterprises Founded & GROWN
5
THOUGHT LEADING, neuroscience-driven BOOKS WRITTEN
4
modules of advanced leadership curriculum BUILT
3
global network tv shows written / hosted
2
top degrees in medical science & Philosophy of science (summa cum laude, Cambridge)
1
original neuroscience-backed theory of transformation: BTX®
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
Top TRANSFORMATION Keynote Speaker & EXPERT AT LEADING DIGITAL & Business TRANSFORMATION
Nick Jankel is a global top 10 keynote speaker and seasoned expert on digital and business transformation, including digital-first business model innovation. With decades of experience on the frontlines of digital disruption—working on the first digital strategy for Disney, mobile software innovations for Microsoft, process transformation for HSBC, and healthcare system transformation for Genentech—Nick shares penetrating and inspiring insights into how to lead transformation by balancing the potent role of new technologies with the vital importance of the human-side of transformation, both customers and employees.
Inspired by the empowering and emancipatory potential of digital technology, Nick started his first company—a digital accelerator and incubator— in 1999 at the height of the dot com dream. As the world changed, he transformed the fast-growth business into a breakthrough innovation and digital transformation consultancy. After exit, having realized how important leadership and culture are in successful transformation, he created a consulting practice—Switch On Leadership—that develops transformational leaders and cultures of transformation as well as programs that drive concrete business transformation and business model innovation.
An unashamed transformation geek, Nick has gone further and deeper than most to crack the code of transformation. He engages in the latest insights from brain, behavioral, emotional, cognitive, consciousness, and complexity science to build an original theory, process, and toolset for leading and landing successful transformation as fast as humanly possible—by working with, and not against, human nervous systems and company cultures. Bio-Transformation® is an evolving body of work that Nick shares tips and tools from in his keynotes on digital transformation.
Nick is an award-winning author of multiple books on transformation and leadership, has been a master transformation coach on two global TV shows, and is a transformative thought leader who has spoken at the illustrious Aspen Ideas Festival, The Economist Innovation Summit, and at Talks@Google.
"FORGE THE FUTURE. DON'T FAIL IT."
leading TRANSFORMATION
topic TEASER VIDEo
About 90% of the Fortune 500 companies from 1955 no longer exist. It’s estimated that fully 50% of today’s S&P will be replaced in the next decade, evident with the launch of generative AIS and other disruptive technologies. Not even the tech giants are invincible to the evolutionary rule of adapt or die.
Changing production lines and lines of code is relatively easy, but changing how people act, think, and interact is critical for successful change adaptation. Transformation is exceptionally challenging because brains and nervous systems change much more slowly and with far more complexity than machines and computer systems. We are organisms, not algorithms. Leaders must understand how to change people to transform individuals, teams, organizations, and systems.
With my collaborators, I’ve painstakingly pieced together a proven pathway and a set of people-powered tools, techniques, and practices to transform people and organizations as fast as humanly possible. This approach works with, not against, how human biologies and company cultures truly function. Informed by the latest neuroscience, behavioral science, and complexity science, it’s called biotransformation.
Biotransformation can help you blast through the barriers that block innovation, cut through the trial that stops change, and take the pain out of business and digital transformation. Taking your brief, I will work tirelessly to amplify your messages and elevate your ambitions while remaining independent as a thought leader, challenger, and aspirer.
Every one of my keynotes is customized to meet and exceed expectations and connect with your specific audience to unleash energy, momentum, inspiration, and traction.
In your keynote, I could share:
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The typical journey of real transformation and how to proactively manage the many pitfalls on the path.
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Learn how to build resilience, not resistance, so that change unfolds and does not unravel.
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Discover how to work with the neuroscience, psychology, and emotions of both resistors and champions.
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Leverage the pain and gain of change across different stakeholders.
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Understand what the people’s side of change really is and how to create the ideal conditions for your people to release the old and embrace the new ways.
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Ensure that transformation is a triumph, not a tragic tale of wastage and failure, by managing fear, egotism, power plays, and excessive command and control.
example digital & Business transformation TAKEAWAYS
always CUSTOMIZED TO YOUR EVENT
Explore the key digital, customer, and global risks that are driving transformation in the external VUCA++ environment—and the business case for continuous transformation as an imperative for all organizations.
Discover the wide variety of technologies—AI, Blockchain, CRISP, Quantum Computing, Robotics, Web 3, and many more—in the 4th Industrial Revolution that offer all organizations opportunities for business model innovation and digital transformation.
Understand how to avoid the many predictable pitfalls and organizational agonies of digital and business transformation—and learn how to leverage a best-practice process for driving digital transformation so you avoid burning money, time, reputations, and goodwill.
Gain insight into the critical people side of transformation and how to use insights from the latest neuroscience, psychology, and complexity science to build change resonance and not resistance—so that transformation unfolds rather than unravels.
Learn how to cultivate and strengthen a Transformation Mindset in leaders and teams—and how to design transformations around customer-centric needs, desires, and behaviors.
Discover powerful and empowering brain-based transformation tools and hacks from Nick's BTX® Method that can proactively deal with issues like fear of loss (of status, control, power), overwhelm, and confusion.