Nick Jankel Keynote Speaker

Nick Jankel is a thought-leader, author, international keynote speaker and ‘Transformational Futurist’.

Through his transformational leadership programs and over 20 years of experience advising organisations such as Nike, HSBC, and Unilever, Nick is a highly sought-after professional speaker whose life’s work is to ensure people have the tools they need to adapt to relentless change and have the mindset to transform their organisations and themselves.

As a transformation guru, Nick hosts his own global BBC TV series, is regularly interviewed by international media outlets and has advised both No.10 Downing Street and The White House.  Some of his clients to date include Microsoft, Vodafone, Novartis, LEGO, Google, NHS, M.O.D., Boots, BUPA, Schroders, Diageo, SAP, RBOS, Tesco, Wal-Mart, Unilever and The European Commission.

Nick spent several years with various organisations and in 2005 he founded Switch On. He is also the Chairman of pioneering sustainability consultancy FutureMakers and a Founding Fellow of The Academy of Professional Speakers.

Nick’s talks help his audiences  blast through the barriers that block innovation. He does this by sharing tools and thinking from Bio-Transformation Theory®. This is an innovation process for transformational results covering conscious, purposeful, creative, inspirational, collaborative and systemic leadership. He has inspired over 5 million people through TV shows, books, cutting-edge meditations and the ability to heal pain, shift baseline moods, think new thoughts and make and break habits as fast as humanly possible.

Nick’s pioneering ideas on transformation have been featured in The Times, The Financial Times, The Sunday Times, and the Guardian. He has worked with top universities including Yale, Oxford, SciencesPo, UCL and London Business School, and his academic paper is in the top 1% of citations.

Speaking events to date include at the Aspen Ideas Festival, the tech mecca TOA (Berlin), Wisdom in Business (AMS), The Economist Summit (SF), The Financial Times Futures (LDN), CHRO Summit (LA) and SciFoo (Google HQ). Committed to systemic transformation as much as personal change, Nick has led systems change projects with organisations like WWF, Oxfam, FCO, NHS, Rockefeller, and Young Foundations and educated non-profit leaders and social entrepreneurs across four  continents.

In 2014, Nick wrote Switch On: Unleash Your Creativity and Thrive with the New Science & Spirit of Breakthrough, in which he discusses the challenges in thriving as individuals and as a world. With his 2018’s Spiritual Atheist: Reunite Science and Wisdom to thrive in life, love & leadership in the Digital Age, Nick lays out his science-based life philosophy and recounts key moments in his 30-year journey to forge the principles of spiritual atheism.

Nick holds a Triple First (summa cum laude) in Medicine and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge University.

As a speaker, he is renowned for his insightful and enlivening talks that leave audiences feeling inspired and informed.  He talks about several subjects at the intersection of transformation, technology and commercial realities.