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Nick Jankel

  • Leadership Futurist
  • Transformation Catalyst
  • Thought Leader on Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA)
  • Author

Nick Jankel is a highly sought-after and accomplished international keynote speaker who inspires, motivates, and empowers audiences across the globe to forge the future -rather than fail it.

As a futurist, leadership theorist and transformation catalyst at the pinnacle of thought leadership, Nick has advised and accelerated many ambitious organizations such as Novartis, HSBC, Unilever, Kellogg’s, Nike, No.10 Downing Street, Zalando, Genentech, Google, Roche, Diageo, Intel, Lendlease, P&G and the BBC.

Nick is a master at the skills, qualities and capabilities of Transformational Leadership: how to metabolize constant change into concrete value and impact, from leading digital transformation to landing disruptive innovation. A Cambridge-educated medic, he develops highly-original thinking and powerful tools— using a blend of the latest brain science fused with profound wisdom—that inspire leaders to switch on and step up rather than freezing in uncertainty, fighting the need for tangible change, and repeating what worked in the past.

 
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Past Hosts Include:
  • Disney
  • The European Commission
  • Fujitsu
  • London Business School
  • Tesco
  • Roche
  • Novartis
  • Smucker’s
  • Google
  • LendLease
Huge Impact! Outstanding framework and powerful tools.
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"Very inspiring and thought provoking presentation."

-COO, Astellas EMEA

"Thank you so much for your brilliant keynote, it gave our participants SO much to discuss. Exactly what we wanted. Our CEO has quoted your thinking to the global leadership team."

-HR Director, Oxford University

"What a brilliant presentation about transformational leadership. I truly enjoyed the part about your theory and all the insights you provided us with. THANK YOU!"

-SVP, Pfizer

"Nick makes you think about the important things. Put your head up, not down, particularly in difficult times!"

-CEO, ArcelorMittal

"As a transformation guru, Nick's ideas are as relevant to the newest startup as they are to the oldest public company."

-Head of White House Office Of Innovation, Advisor to President Obama

"Nick Jankel goes deeper and clearly made an impact on me and on others. Looking forward to seeing the seeds grow in my mind and my organization."

-Merck

"Excellent presentation. Very thought provoking and exactly what we wanted."

-Direct Line Group

"An outstanding presentation!"

-Novartis

"Nick jankel uses his unique voice and powerful insights to inspire wonder. As a leadership and transformation guru, his ideas are as relevant to the newest startup as they are to the oldest public company."

-Obama White House

"Inspired us to continue to work on ourselves as leaders and lead the change. The value of the storytelling tool was spot on. Thank you!"

-SAP

"Enlightening and inspirational."

-Microsoft

"A pronounced and profound impact. Exceptional."

-HSBC
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Talks & Conversations with Nick Jankel
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Future-Proof Your Org With Transformational Innovation

• Covid and the climate crisis are accelerators of massive market disruption
• We can leverage new technologies to solve emerging customer needs/pain with insight and creativity
• Transformational Innovation can help you adapt to this crisis and ‘preadapt’ to the next
• The 7 steps of our proven pathway to lead and land transformational innovations
• Process is not enough—you also need to nurture a culture of innovation
• Takeaway Tool Options: The Innovat

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Transformational Leadership to Lead In VUCA Chaos, Crisis & Challenge

• Today’s complex problems can only be solved with a combination of a smart mind and an empathic heart
• Why being the smartest room is no longer enough—or even desirable
• The Transformational Leader is a master at both wisdom and intellect so they can drive business transformation and social regeneration
• The 5 Stages of becoming a Transformational Leader
• Takeaway Tool Options: The Transformational Leadership Diagnostic, The Personal Leadership Plan

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Sustainable Innovation: From Compliance To Creativity & Exponential Value-Creation

• Solve customer pain points driven by social and ecological breakdown to unlock exponential value
• Move from footprint minimization driven by regulation to opening up exciting possibility spaces and business opportunities
• Turn zero-carbon/decarbonization into a ‘prism' to drive exponential value-creation in products and services.
• Covers business purpose, breakthrough thinking, and my pioneering transformational innovation process and toolset that allows any organization, no matter the size,

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Sustainable Leadership: How To Lead The Change

• Turn despair into hope by understanding the power that business and institutional leaders have to lead the change so many want to see
• Skip the out-dated power politics that is causing so much delay to craft brands and business models that are net-positive/ “regenerative”
• Inspire leaders with nature and “rewild” leadership purpose • Use your one short life to leave a sustainable legacy • Use your organization’s power to leave the world better

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Sustainability Storytelling: Engaging Stakeholders With Compelling Narratives That Transform

• Even if we want to lead the shift to a sustainable world, many stakeholders don’t get it, don't want to get it, or don't know how to get it
• Many may say they want to be sustainable but resist, deny, ignore, or are cynical about the urgency and magnitude of the climate crisis (and other issues like inequality,
precarity, and pollution)
• Neuroscience shows that it's no use yelling at people, criticizing them, or showing them yet more data—this usually tiggers the Backfire Effect
• Instead, harness my transformational storytelling insights and toolkit to engage to different kinds of stakeholders in empathic and imaginative ways—and turn resistors
into supporters and supporters into champions

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Business Purpose For Sustainable Growth

• The different kinds of purpose: business, project/team, individual
• The potential roles for business in a crisis-hit world
• What purpose is not (a mission, goal, KPI) and what it is (a compelling contribution to society)
• The purpose dividend (value in terms of investor interest, profit, traction, consumer loyalty, employee retention etc) vs. the purpose premium (cost in terms of doing things differently)
• Using purpose as a tool for leadership alignment, culture change, and team engagement
• Takeaway Tool Options: The Leadership Purpose Engine, The Business Purpose Engine, The Team Purpose Engine

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Regenerative Business & Brands

• The 4 major crises of the Anthropocene Age that Covid-19 accelerates
• The unique qualities of Regenerative Brands
• The business model and value chain ingredients that can build future-forward and purpose-driven Regenerative Businesses
• Takeaway Tool Options: The Regenerative Brand Engine, The Regenerative Business Engine

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Regenerative Tech: Making Digital Work For All

• The spectrum of digital technologies in the 4th Industrial Revolution
• What major technologies—from AI to Blockchain—can do to create value for your users
• How to avoid using digital technologies just because they are new and because they can manipulate, alienate, and exploit
• Ensuring tech develops new business models not shoring up rapidly out-dating models
• With purpose and an understanding of living systems, we can put technology to work scale impact as well as profit and ‘leave the world better’
• Takeaway Tool Options: The Regenerative Tech Engine 

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Forging The Future Of Work

• Social distancing and home working can further corrode the ‘working alliance’ (as are technologies and management techniques that alienate and disconnect)
• How to forge a renewed working alliance by balancing accountability and efficiency technologies… with connection and care techniques
• How to borrow from the design principles of nature to nurture life-affirming dynamics in company cultures, ensuring humans will never made obsolete by machines and AI
• Takeaway Tool Options: The Regenerative Business Engine, he Transformational Organization Engine

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Become A Transformational Organization: Design For Agility Without Losing Stability

• There is a survival necessity to allow those on the frontlines to adapt and innovate in real time with users/customers… without losing strategy, predictable returns, and efficiency
• There is also a generational demand for flatter hierarchies and more distributed power
• Empowerment alone does not work to unlock agility after years of learned helplessness
• But there is way of designing organizations for transformation that blends stability & agility; productivity & purpose; and control & creativity
• Takeaway Tool Options: The Transformational Organization Engine

Books by Nick Jankel
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Biography
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