Motivational Speaker On construction, engineering & the built environment
Looking for a motivational keynote speaker on leadership, change, transformation, and innovation in construction and the Future Of The Built Environment?
Nick has spent 20 years working with built environment professionals, construction company execs, and engineers of all kinds in firms like Lendlease, AECOM, JLL, Balfour Beatty, Arcadis, Skanska, Wilmott Dixon, Sir Robert McAlpine, The Crown Estate, ARUP, GBC, WGBC, Grosvenor Estate, Buro Happold & many more.
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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
Nick's most POPULAR KEYNOTE speaking TOPICS in the built environment sector
(Always Customized To Your Event)
KEYNOTE SPEAKER on leadership & innovation In The built environment
Example Talking Points, which will ALWAYS be CUSTOMIZED TO YOUR EVENT!
Actionable insights into how to leverage emerging technologies—especially AI—in safe, strategic, and systemic ways to drive better performance and digital transformation.
How to navigate uncertainty and complexity with a futures framework that helps leaders understand what is probable, problematic, and possible in the future of construction.
How to go "beyond the bricks" to leverage customer/tenant/user insights that can unlock breakthrough innovations in processes, products, and services, opening up new revenue streams.
The mindsets and behaviors built environment leaders and managers need to develop to cope with change and uncertainty.
Cutting-edge insights, ideas, and hacks in future-fit leadership to help leaders in construction and engineering to unlock meaningful change and purposeful growth.
How to work through the challenges of balancing purpose with profit—and excellence with efficiencies—in the built environment.
Enthusiasm, creativity and knowledge of breakthrough innovation proved invaluable in ensuring powerful outcomes.
CEO,
Green Building Council
Nick makes you think about the important things in life. Put your head up, not down, particularly in difficult times!
CEO,
ArcelorMittal Construction
Inspiring, entertaining and a wake up call for every leader to become a truly transformational leader today for a better tomorrow!
Marketing Director,
Alfa Laval
Excellent - we really enjoyed it. A great session
Leaders,
NHS
Top Construction Keynote Speaker & FUTURIST NICK JANKEL
Nick Jankel is a top 10 motivational keynote speaker who shares penetrating insights and inspiring ideas into how to lead significant change, transformation, and innovation in the built environment industry.
His insights and ideas born from 25 years on the frontlines of innovation and transformational leadership, and from working with built environment companies including heritage landowners (e.g. The Crown Estate, Grosvenor Estate), multinational developers (e.g. Lendlease), consulting firms (e.g. Buro Happold), contractors (e.g. Sir Robert McAlpine, Wilmott Dixon), and membership associations, including innovation and leadership programs co-run with the UK Green Building Council that included leaders from firms like AECOM, ARUP, Balfour Beatty, Skanska, and many more.
With a 1st class science degree from Cambridge University (summa cum laude), Nick is a sought-after and accomplished keynote speaker and futurist who helps construction industry, engineering, and design audiences make sense of and simplify complexity, understand what is coming and what is possible, and understand how they can metabolize unstoppable disruption into value-creating, user-centric ideas, insights, and innovations.
Using cutting-edge neuroscience breakthroughs that Nick stays informed on, Nick supports executives and leaders in the built environment to go beyond their smarts to empathize with and influence both customers and colleagues, generate innovation-ready insights, and drive value-creating innovations and collaborations to impact built environment outcomes. He can "speak" engineer and understands how to inspire technical thinkers to change and transform.
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 thought leader who has spoken at the illustrious Aspen Ideas Festival, The Economist Innovation Summit (alongside Elon Musk), and at Talks@Google.
Leading Inspirational Speaker on construction, engineering & the built environment
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
Nick's UNIQUE leadership & innovation ACCOMPLISHMENTS
100K+
SENIOR Leaders COACHED & DEVELOPED
150+
takeaway leadership & INNOVATION tools created
100+
FORTUNE 500 Innovation Programs LED
25+
major pharmaceutical & healthcare corporations advised
10
purpose-driven companies founded & grown
4
thought leading, neuroscience-led books written
3
presidents & prime ministers advised
2
global top 10 medical schools attended (cambrIdge, UCL)
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