KEYNOTE SPEAKER On The Future of HR
Looking for an inspiring keynote on the future of HR and HR-tech for your next event?
Nick Jankel delivers experiential and high-impact keynotes on the future of HR leadership—and why "People Power" is the key to surviving and thriving in a disrupted and digital world.
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.
Ways to rethink training, talent management, and leadership development to ensure they are fit for a relentlessly complex, chaotic, and crisis-hit reality.
Why HR leaders and mangers must ensure exponential digital technologies help unlock more human-centric organizations as well as boost productivity and profit.
The opportunity to reshape the HR function as an encourager and instigator of innovation and business transformation, not a killer of them.
How to acknowledge and then break through the many stereotypes others functions and business units have of HR so it can fulfill it's potential as the leaders of the leaders.
Why HR leaders can be the true "wisdom keepers" of the company culture—and so unlock the full force of People Power.
How HR leaders can lead sideways and upwards to inspire, guide, and advise their business partners to forge the future with People Power.
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 The Future of HR & HRTECH
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 born from 25 years on the frontlines of disruptive innovation, purpose-driven entrepreneurship, and transformational leadership.
Nick is a sought-after and accomplished keynote speaker and futurist who helps 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, customer-centric ideas, insights, and innovations.
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.
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We’re in an era of massive turbulence and turmoil, but also energy and excitement in the workplace, as significant as the shift from farms to factories. The working alliance that succeeded in the 1950s and beyond is failing employees and employers, with real wages for non-managers not having risen much since the 1970s. From hybrid workers to four-day weeks, from fears of being automated out of a job to an increased appetite for unionization, HR professionals are facing relentless complexities and ruthless changes, making old ways of thinking about HR and people go out of date fast.
There’s a desperate shortage of the most transformational talent, with churn, not stability, becoming the norm. Even after investing vast amounts to recruit the very best and brightest people, companies often fail to give them the agency, tools, skills, development, and budgets they need to solve the biggest problems that the organization faces.
Having worked with senior HR professionals for many years, I have long ago been convinced that the strategic and breakthrough innovation work I pioneered with Fortune 500 companies only delivers extraordinary results when leaders and cultures have what it takes to deliver on them. Therefore, I’ve come to believe that HR, not strategy, marketing, or finance, holds the key to the kingdom of survival and success in our technology-dominated and disrupted reality because it’s people power that makes all the difference.
But sadly, HR is still too often seen as a force of compliance and control, risk-averse and reactive, rather than visionary, transformative, and courageous. This is a massive missed opportunity for HR to lead their leaders to a transformed future. As a leadership futurist, I not only engage and inspire audiences with what’s possible and what’s coming in the future but also invite them to reflect on how they may want to think differently and act differently to create the future they want to see.
For example, I could share how to make talent acquisition, development, and retention match fit for a complex, chaotic, and crisis-hit future. How exponential digital technologies can help unlock way more human-centric organizations, how HR can be seen as an encourager of innovation and growth mindsets, not a killer of them. How HR professionals can break through stereotypes to fulfill their potential as leaders of the leaders, how HR can serve as the wisdom keeper of their organization, unlocking the full force of people power, and ways HR leaders can lead sideways and upwards to ensure the leaders that they serve, forge, and don’t fail the future.