#1 SPEAKER on PURPOSE-Driven Leadership
Looking for a Purpose Keynote Speaker to inform, inspire, and ignite concrete action on purpose-driven leadership and business purpose at your next event?
Nick Jankel has helped many large organizations and tens of thousands of leaders find and fully express their purpose in the world—and understand how to elevate a mission into a coherent and compelling purpose.
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.
PURPOSE KEYNOTE SPEAKER Talking POINTS
always CUSTOMIZED TO YOUR EVENT
The business case for purpose-led businesses and brands, with emerging research on the impact on results, wellbeing, and company culture of purpose—including the "purpose dividend" and the "purpose premium."
How go about developing an authentic business purpose by transforming company missions and ambitions into a clear and compelling purpose statement—and how to avoid "purpose washing" by ensuring it is a genuine contribution to society and/or nature.
The emerging "purpose gap" between executive assumptions and employee perceptions—and how to close it by helping both leaders and employees connect their purpose to the business purpose.
How to harness purpose-led leadership tools and techniques to ignite fire in the belly and inspire people to dedicate their discretionary energy and effort to making a marked contribution to realizing a common purpose.
Ways to help co-workers and collaborators to find everyday purpose, meaning, and fulfillment in their work—no matter how mundane it may seem—and the benefits on health and performance this can bring.
How to go beyond mere "mission" to develop a coherent leadership purpose that keeps leaders and teams going in the most challenging moments—and that can triumph against the relentless
forces of disorder, decay, and disintegration.
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
PURPOSE KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Top MOTIVATIONAL
Speaker On Purpose-driven LEADERSHIP & BUSINESS
Nick Jankel is a top 50 global professional keynote speaker who shares penetrating and inspiring insights into how to lead significant change, transformation, and innovation driven by a clear, compelling, and creative purpose.
Nick has been an explicitly purpose-led entrepreneur and leader since having a purpose epiphany in the mid-2000s. This occurred after an intense period of entrepreneurial growth (and burnout and breakdown) with his first start-up. He realized then that, for his well-being and that of the world, he had to put purpose at the core of everything he did and all the companies he was involved in.
Nick has since developed a profound, powerful, yet practical set of tools and practices to help leaders, teams, and entire businesses—Intel, Merck, GBC, HSBC—find, define, and express a genuinely contributive purpose. He has helped scores of leaders and organizations leverage their purpose to unlock big and bold visions, focus their strategies, unlock breakthrough innovations, leave lasting legacies, and provide meaning and belonging to their teams.
Nick is a sought-after and accomplished keynote speaker on business purpose and helps audiences make sense of this colossal idea and put it to work to metabolize unstoppable disruption into value-creating and customer-centric ideas, insights, and innovations.
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Purpose-led businesses outperform the market by over 40% and see their valuation double when compared to conventional companies. The highest-performing employees are three times more likely to work for a company with a compelling purpose, yet only 33% say their company has one. I believe purpose is a huge, often untapped driver of motivation, inspiration, and innovation. Purpose-driven businesses and brands may be the only way to ensure our planet and species flourish in our crisis-hit reality.
However, I’ve witnessed that talking about business and leadership purpose is easy; understanding what it is and what it isn’t, making sure purpose is clear, compelling, and concrete in terms of a benefit to the world, and avoiding purpose washing is much harder. There’s also a clear purpose gap in most organizations. While the majority of executives think purpose is essential to business, only a third of employees see evidence of this.
I’ve been an explicitly purpose-led entrepreneur and leader. I had a purpose epiphany in the mid-2000s after an intense period of burnout and breakdown. I realized then that for my own well-being and that of the world, I had to put purpose at the core of everything I do and everything my company does. Since then, along with my colleagues, I’ve developed a profound and powerful set of tools and practices to help people and businesses find and define a genuinely contributive purpose.
I’ve helped scores of leaders and organizations leverage their purpose to unlock a big and bold vision, focus their strategy, leave a legacy, and provide meaning and belonging to their teams. 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, unleashing energy, momentum, inspiration, and traction.
In a keynote on purpose in business and work, I could share:
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A clear and compelling business case for genuinely purpose-led businesses and brands.
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How to elevate ambitions and upgrade goals to form a clear, compelling, and concrete purpose that people feel like a fire burning in their bellies.
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How to close the purpose gap and help colleagues connect their own leadership purpose to that of their organization.
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How to help employees and team members find meaning and fulfillment in their work, no matter how mundane it may look.
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Leaving a lasting legacy as a purpose-driven leader
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How to go about developing a coherent team purpose that can triumph against the forces of disorder, decay, and disintegration that are all around us.