Top SALES Speaker: motivational, inspirational, influential
Looking for an inspirational sales keynote for sales kickoffs and annual meetings to unleash limitless motivation and accelerated momentum for serving customers and driving results?
With 25+ years of real-world selling experience, Nick Jankel goes beyond easy, short-lived motivation to unlock sustained energy that lasts all year. He achieves this by re-igniting passion for understanding and serving changing customer needs, for connecting with and listening to clients, and for being curious about how new technologies like AI and storytelling can be leveraged to accelerate impact.
With a high-energy, audience-centric approach, Nick's sales keynotes blend big-picture insight into changing customer needs with practical tools sales teams can use immediately. He helps unite sales professionals around a shared purpose and set of commitments while elevating individual performance in fast-changing markets.
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Go beyond temporary "Ra-Ra!" motivation to unlock sustained, intrinsic drive that can last all year—ideal for sales kickoffs seeking lasting impact, renewed commitment, and revitalized energy.
Re-ignite in sales professionals a limitless passion for solving and serving customer needs and pain points, and re-vitalize sales teams with energy and aliveness.
Boost curiosity for understanding how customers' needs, wants, and desires are changing and unleash customer empathy and connectivity on the road and through email, phone calls, and emerging communication platforms.
Blend big-picture insight into how customers' lives, workflows, and businesses are changing with practical tools sales professionals can use immediately after the event.
Unify sales teams (and other functions) around a common purpose and shared mission, boosting collaboration while leveraging positive competition.
Provide practical tips, tools, and hacks for leveraging AI/ storytelling/ persuasion as sales professionals to accelerate results and minimize slop, errors, and loss of credibility.
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 SALES Keynote Speaker NICK JANKEL
Nick Jankel is a globally recognised keynote sales speaker with more than 25 years of real-world selling experience, having built and scaled multiple businesses entirely through his own ability to generate, nurture, and close sales opportunities. He shares powerful insights and inspiring ideas on how to sell in a fast-changing, disrupted, and AI world.
A Cambridge-educated thought leader on transformation, innovation, leadership, and the Future of Work, Nick has sold over 350 high-end leadership, innovation, and change programs to over a hundred Fortune 500 corporations— alongside projects for government agencies, mid-size businesses, and fast-growth companies. He has attracted Venture Capital, sold himself as a keynote speaker at 1000+ events in a fiercely competitive market, and has successfully landed major TV, book, and product deals from London to Los Angeles.
Drawing on decades spent on the phone, on the road, and in the room selling complex solutions to fast-changing customer needs and pain points, Nick brings unmatched credibility and practical wisdom to every sales keynote. He combines advanced neuroscience, behavioural psychology, and his proprietary BTX Method® to unlock intrinsic motivation; elevate customer-centric empathy; and spark curiosity about changing customer needs, competitive dynamics, and emerging technologies like AI.
Nick’s high-energy, audience-centric keynotes blend big-picture insights with tactical tools that sales teams can use immediately to deepen relationships, accelerate momentum, and exceed targets. As an inspirational sales speaker trusted by global brands across technology, healthcare, finance, and FMCG, he delivers lasting impact well beyond the event itself—renewing purpose, strengthening collaboration, and unleashing the mindset needed to sell with confidence amid constant disruption.
Nick is an award-winning author of multiple books on transformation and leadership, a master transformation coach on two global TV shows, and a thought leader who has been invited to speak at Davos, Aspen Ideas Festival, The Economist Summit (alongside Elon Musk), and Talks@Google.
Leading Inspirational Speaker in next-generation sales
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 ACCOMPLISHMENTS
$10M+
in consulting & keynote sales
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)
1
original science-backed theory of change: bio-TRANSFORMATION®
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top keynote speaker sales with RAVE REVIEWS
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