KEYNOTE SPEAKER On Collaboration & Partnerships
Looking for a keynote on how to lead meaningful collaborations and high-performing partnerships?
Nick Jankel delivers experiential and high impact keynotes and has spent 25 years on the frontlines of consulting and entrepreneurship, developing scores of high-value and high-integrity collaborations, partnerships, and co-creations to have a significant impact.
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.
Why the cliche that "it always comes down to relationships" is more true than ever in our digital age—but why so many find collaboration at work so very challenging to do and sustain.
How to manage, contribute to, and lead very different forms of collaboration—from co-ordination to co-creation—and how to unblock the inevitable tensions that will eventually undermine all collaborations if not resolved.
Learn hacks to ensure others feel seen, heard, appreciated, and respected and brain-based ways to shift our mood quickly so we treat people with kindness, reciprocity, and empathy even when very busy, stressed, or overwhelmed.
How to have difficult conversations and deal with difficult people—and maintain firm yet sensitive boundaries that keep everyone safe.
Ways to nourish and cultivate partnerships with customers, vendors, and other stakeholders to deliver win-win-win outcomes that benefit all—and how to pre-empt the very predictable pitfalls of partnering.
How to go about delegating effectively within collaborations, with guidance and guardrails—and how to inspire people to be a radiator (energizing and enlivening) not a drain!
A standing ovation! I am already sharing the insights with my leaders. Thank you!
CEO,
Unilever USA
Nick was the highlight of the 2-day conference. He made it worth going to. Thought-provoking, insightful, and very enjoyable.
SVP
Investment Bank
Nick had a pronounced and profound impact. Exceptional!
President,
Kellogg’s North America
Nick transformed our event with an engaging and evocative talk that hit all the nails that we put out there. It set a perfect scene for the remainder!
Head of Marketing,
Syngenta
Top Keynote Speaker On Collaboration & PARTNERING Leadership
Nick Jankel is a global motivational keynote speaker who shares penetrating and inspiring insights into how to lead meaningful collaborations and high-performing partnerships born from 25 years on the frontlines of consulting and entrepreneurship requiring multiple high-value and high-integrity collaborations, partnerships, and co-creations to have such significant impact.
Nick is profoundly passionate about sharing the fruits of a lifetime’s research, expertise, and coal-face experience to help audiences of all kinds embrace collaboration as a means to unlock outsized growth, unlock breakthroughs in business partnerships and relationships, and sustain collective performance without losing their humanity.
He works hard—as a deep thinker yet warm-hearted speaker—to simplify the complexities of collaboration, reduce the paralysis of partnership, and take the pain out of broken business relationships. He leaves audiences not just motivated, inspired, informed, and energized but tangibly moved to do things differently and empowered with practical tools to start the change today.
With a restless commitment to generating an unprecedented ROI from speaking, he constantly innovates new speaking formats, such as experiential keynotes (90-120 mins) and interactive keynotes with a workshop session.
Whether headlining a major conference, inspiring a customer/user event, or galvanizing a top 10-500 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. His thought-leading ideas and talks are routinely called “visionary and far-reaching,” “important and consequential,” yet “profoundly practical and immediately useful.”
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A third of work stress and suffering arises from difficult interpersonal relationships. Forty-two percent of workers report common occurrences of yelling and verbal abuse in their workplace, with 30% admitting to yelling at a co-worker due to personal stress. On the flip side, leaders with high relational energy drive 400% more profitability and productivity than those struggling with effective relationship leadership. The majority of professional and organizational failures I’ve witnessed stem from challenging interpersonal relationships hindering connection, creativity, and collaboration crucial for successful innovation and business transformation.
The challenge for relational leadership and collaboration is immense because our evolutionary responses to threats, including seemingly invisible micro-stresses, trigger fight, flight, freeze, and people-pleasing reactions. These unconscious, long-established patterns lead to dysfunctional interactions, communication breakdowns, and often escalate into resistance, drama, friction, and frustration. This, in turn, results in poor performance, toxic teams, and limited innovation or business transformation. Achieving success in these areas requires significant interpersonal risk-taking, support, encouragement, and trust.
Having experienced the difficulties firsthand as a leader of leaders, boss of many, and serial collaborator, I’ve learned that being adept at interpersonal relationships and collaboration is one of the most challenging tasks, especially for those who are sharp and smart. Nevertheless, great relational and collaborative leadership enhances performance, productivity, engagement, job satisfaction, and retention. Leaders prioritizing relationships are more effective, driving customer satisfaction and contributing to a better bottom line, ultimately boosting shareholder returns.
Years of collaboration with my peers have led to the development of powerful tools and practices that transform sticky and difficult interpersonal dynamics, unlocking positive relational energy—the kind that uplifts, enthuses, and regenerates our people. When given your brief, I commit to working tirelessly to amplify your messages, elevate your ambitions, all while remaining independent as a thought leader, challenger, and aspirer. Each of my keynotes is customized to surpass expectations, connecting with your specific audience to unleash energy, momentum, inspiration, and traction. I can share insights on kindness, empathy, and deep listening, even in busy and overwhelming situations.