For Nick Jankel
& Alison McAulay
Making change happen as quickly as humanly possible in life and leadership to survive and thrive in disruption, complexity, and crisis.
Past Coverage: Leadership, Business, Technology & Innovation
Past Coverage: Personal Growth, Transformation & Teams
Self-to-System™ Leadership Method powered by Bio-Transformation®
How can individuals, teams, and businesses survive — and thrive — in constant change, crisis, chaos, complexity, generational conflict, AI, climate emergency, and staff challenges? Over 40% of the CEOs of global firms don’t think their company will make it through the next 10 years… and over 80% of managers and leaders are outmatched by the complexity and disruption in the world around them.
So how do CEOs, managers, founders, fast-growth entrepreneurs, mompreneurs, and everyday workers doing their best metabolize problems into creativity and growth, prioritize purpose alongside profit, and deal with burnout, overwhelm, stress, anxiety, and lack of creativity in themselves and their co-workers? Answer: They “switch on” their leadership with the Self-to-System™ leadership method and the theory of change underneath it called Bio-Transformation®. With it, leaders, managers, and everyday folks can wake up their wisdom within and work successfully through the gnarly challenges in our world.
Nick Jankel and Alison McAulay are co-founders of a global boutique leadership consultancy specializing in transformational leadership, teamwork, and innovation programs and digital products called Switch On Leadership (SOL). They advise, develop, and coach leaders and their teams to creatively, confidently, and courageously lead their organizations toward a flourishing future — in increasing complexity, crisis, and disruption.
For a World Better Led.
For a World Wiser Led.
Jankel and McAulay developed their Self-to-System™ leadership method to ensure leaders can transform their organizations, systems, and industries to forge a flourishing future for themselves and all life on our planet… having first transformed themselves. This is leadership from the inside out.
Over 100,000+ leaders — from organizations like Intel, Nike, Unilever, Smucker’s, Walgreens, AbbVie, Microsoft, AstraZeneca, and HSBC — have used elements of their approach to move towards mastery of both the inner and outer games of leadership. Their programs and products are underpinned by Bio-Transformation®, an original theory powered by the latest brain, behavioral, and complexity science integrated with trauma-informed therapies and practices from the contemplative and embodiment traditions.
Bio-Transformation® is an original and cohesive theory for leading and landing lasting, positive change in individuals, teams, and organizations as fast as humanly possible. It has been co-developed by this wife-and-husband team over the last decade to help anyone — whether leader, manager, parent, or team member — make change happen from the inside out… in order to adapt to the outside-in changes in our complex, disrupted, and crisis-heavy world.
Nick Jankel: Leadership Theorist, Practitioner & Speaker
Nick Jankel is a sought-after and highly-regarded international keynote speaker, author, and leadership expert who inspires, motivates, and empowers people all over the world to forge the future — rather than fail it.
Nick inspires audiences and viewers to eliminate the confusion of our times as a futurist; take the pain out of business/digital/sustainable transformation; blast through the barriers that block innovation; and transform the challenges of teams and cultures by galvanizing creativity, energy, and action where they count most.
Jankel has worked with senior leaders from organizations like HSBC, Boots Walgreens, Unilever, Diageo, Google, Nike, Merck, Wal-Mart, and NHS; led systemic change programs with WWF and Oxfam; worked with entrepreneurs and social innovators on 4 continents; and lectured at world-class universities including Yale, Oxford, SciencesPo, UCL, and London Business School. He has a Triple First from Cambridge University in Medicine & Philosophy, and helped innovate the most successful TV show in history. In addition, Jankel has been a TV host and transformation coach on two network TV shows, helping celebrities change (MTV) and addicts transform (BBC). Furthermore, Jankel’s been a guest on CBS, Coast to Coast (twice), BBC News (on AI), Aspen Ideas Festival, Huffington Post, Hay House Radio, and much more.
Topics with Nick
The Inner & Outer Games Of Leadership
Businesses can only survive — and thrive — by leveraging the only competitive advantage in their complete control: the capabilities and consciousness of their leaders. Leaders have to first transform their own habits and behaviors before they can transform how their teams work and companies innovate.
What Are Creative Yet Responsible Uses of Digital Technologies?
How can AI, Blockchain, CRISPR, and other tech be used to liberate humanity, not destroy our humanity?
Relationships Are More Important Than Smartness For True Success.
Relationship Solutions for leaders, teams, parents, partners, and collaborators. How to not only survive tensions, conflict, breakdowns, and meltdowns but use them to create, innovate, and thrive.
Plus:
- What is right/wrong with personality testing
- The four archetypes everyone has access to in order to lead
- Mindset Mastery/The Transformation Mindset
- Breaking through self-sabotaging habits that undermine transformational leadership
- Toxic masculinity in leaders
- Innovation killers and creativity unlockers
- Metabolizing everyday life and leadership problems into creativity and growth
- Building high-performance/innovation teams
- Developing creative and innovative cultures > Experimentation > Failure
- Business and leadership purpose
- Regenerative business
- Failing well
- Collaborating/working with your wife/lover
- Storytelling for leaders/entrepreneurs
- Influencing others without manipulation and coercion
- Building resilience across nine key pillars
- Changing the education paradigm to create tomorrow’s leaders
About Alison McAulay
Alison McAulay is a groundbreaking leadership development theorist and practitioner, executive coach, and trauma-based therapist.
Her mission is to re-humanize businesses — and their teams and cultures — by expanding the consciousness, compassion, creativity, and capabilities of senior leaders and the team members they lead. McAulay is the co-founder and Chief Learning Officer of the boutique leadership consultancy, Switch On Leadership. In this role, she is a coach and advisor to CEOs and teams at organizations like Syngenta, Zalando, Citizen, and LEGO.
McAulay is a former Team USA elite gymnast, professional dancer, and choreographer in Los Angeles and San Francisco; she has a BA in Performing Arts and advanced training in trauma-informed therapies, including Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, ACT, Attachment Theory, and Kundalini Yoga. With this wealth of knowledge and experience transforming hearts and minds, she has spent many years working with her SOL co-founder to unfold the Self-to-System leadership method and the theory that powers it, Bio-Transformation.
Topics with Alison
How to break through — as fast as humanly possible — common blocks to success and happiness from the inside out
Transform self-sabotage, imposter syndrome, perfectionism, stress, overwhelm, and the infamous inner critic. Learn to live and lead life trauma-informed.
How to be a high performer without burning out or losing your humanity
High performers, especially female leaders, face aggressive and competitive cultures, patriarchal colleagues, competing demands like parenting and menopause, and more. How do high performers wake up to well-being at work?
Encouraging kinder workplaces without losing effectiveness
Leaders, managers, and co-workers can leverage more “feminine” qualities like kindness, care, listening, presence, quietness, empathy, and safety to make work and life better.
Plus:
- Psychological safety and trust in teams
- Trauma makes us anti-social and poor team members
- Relationships: dealing with aggression, anger, trust, conflict, gossip
- Compassion and kindness at work
- Anxiety, hypervigilance, and the toxicity of hustle culture
- Keeping strong and compassionate boundaries
- Identifying and breaking through self-sabotaging patterns
- Toxic femininity
- Building resilience across nine key pillars
- Metabolizing problems into creativity and growth
- The pros and cons of well-being/mindfulness at Work
- Having high-stakes and difficult conversations
- Collaborating/working with your husband/lover
- Empathy, emotional intelligence, and active listening
- Habit changes
- Trauma-informed leadership, businesses, and society
Inner and Outer Games of Leadership
Nick and Alison can speak about leveraging the latest brain, behavioral, and complexity science combined with embodiment and wisdom technologies.
Inside Out > Mastery of the Inner Game of Leadership
Self-Transformation
Resilience
Purpose
Wisdom
Emotional Intelligence
Outside In < Mastery of the Outer Game of Leadership
Innovation
Performance
Collaboration
Influencing
Storytelling
Nick’s Biographies
With over 25 years of hard-won experience advising ambitious leaders and organizations on the front lines of disruption, Nick Jankel is one of the world’s pre-eminent theorists and practitioners of transformational leadership and breakthrough innovation. He has worked with over 100,000 leaders in organizations like Google, Pfizer, Nike, PlayStation, and LEGO; and has designed and led c.100 breakthrough innovation projects for companies like Disney, Microsoft, Diageo, and Lendlease. He has a Triple First from Cambridge University in Medical Science and Philosophy of Science and studied Clinical Medicine at UCL. Nick is the co-founder of Switch On Leadership and the lead developer of Bio-Transformation®. He is a world-renowned keynote speaker and futurist who has taught at Yale and Oxford and has coached celebrities and addicts on two international TV shows (BBC and MTV). He is the originator of the Self-to-System™ leadership method and author of many books, the latest of which was featured on the cover of Publishers Weekly plus won a global award. To work with Nick Jankel, visit SwitchOnLeadership.com.
BROADCAST
With over 25 years of hard-won experience advising ambitious leaders and organizations on the front lines of disruption, Nick Jankel is one of the world’s pre-eminent theorists and practitioners of transformational leadership and breakthrough innovation. He has worked with over 100,000 leaders in organizations like Google, Pfizer, Nike, PlayStation, and LEGO; and has designed and led c.100 breakthrough innovation projects for companies like Disney, Microsoft, Diageo, and Lendlease. He has a Triple First from Cambridge University in Medical Science and Philosophy of Science and studied Clinical Medicine at UCL. Nick is the co-founder of Switch On Leadership and the lead developer of Bio-Transformation®. He is a world-renowned keynote speaker and futurist who has taught at Yale and Oxford and has coached celebrities and addicts on two international TV shows (BBC and MTV). He is the originator of the Self-to-System™ leadership method and has authored many books, the latest of which was featured on the cover of Publishers Weekly plus won a global award. To work with Nick Jankel, visit SwitchOnLeadership.com. Nick, welcome to the program. Why is it important to lead with wisdom?
IN DEPTH
Nick Jankel is a sought-after and highly-regarded professional international keynote speaker who inspires, motivates, and empowers people all over the world to forge the future — rather than fail it. Nick inspires audiences to eliminate the confusion of our times as a futurist; take the pain out of business/digital/sustainable transformation; blast through the barriers that block innovation; and transform the challenges of teams and cultures by galvanizing creativity, energy, and action where they count most.
Jankel has worked with senior leaders from organizations like HSBC, Boots Walgreens, Unilever, Diageo, Google, Nike, Merck, Wal-Mart, and NHS; led systemic change programs with WWF and Oxfam; worked with entrepreneurs and social innovators on four continents; and lectured at world-class universities including Yale, Oxford, SciencesPo, UCL, and London Business School. He has a Triple First from Cambridge University in Medicine & Philosophy, and helped innovate the most successful TV show in history.
Jankel has been a TV host and transformation coach on two network TV shows, helping celebrities change (MTV) and addicts transform (BBC). Furthermore, Jankel’s been a guest on CBS, Coast to Coast (twice), BBC News (on AI), Aspen Ideas Festival, Huffington Post, Hay House Radio, and much more.
Alison’s Biographies
Alison McAulay is a former Team USA elite gymnast, professional dancer, and choreographer in Los Angeles and San Francisco; she has a BA in Performing Arts and advanced training in trauma-informed therapies, including Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, ACT, Attachment Theory, and Kundalini Yoga. With this wealth of knowledge and experience transforming hearts and minds, she has spent many years working with her Switch On Leadership co-founder to unfold the Self-to-System™ leadership method. She is a groundbreaking leadership development theorist and practitioner, executive coach, and trauma-based therapist. Her mission is to re-humanize businesses — and their teams and cultures — by expanding the consciousness, compassion, creativity, and capabilities of senior leaders and the team members they lead. McAulay is the co-founder and Chief Learning Officer of the boutique leadership consultancy Switch On Leadership. In this role, she is a coach and advisor to CEOs and teams at organizations like Syngenta, Zalando, Citizen, and LEGO.
BROADCAST
Alison McAulay is a former Team USA elite gymnast, professional dancer, and choreographer in Los Angeles and San Francisco; she has a BA in Performing Arts and advanced training in trauma-informed therapies, including Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, ACT, Attachment Theory, and Kundalini Yoga. With this wealth of knowledge and experience transforming hearts and minds, she has spent many years working with her Switch On Leadership co-founder to unfold the Self-to-System™ leadership method. She is a groundbreaking leadership development theorist and practitioner, executive coach, and trauma-based therapist. Her mission is to re-humanize businesses — and their teams and cultures — by expanding the consciousness, compassion, creativity, and capabilities of senior leaders and the team members they lead. McAulay is the co-founder and Chief Learning Officer of the boutique leadership consultancy Switch On Leadership. In this role, she is a coach and advisor to CEOs and teams at organizations like Syngenta, Zalando, Citizen, and LEGO. Alison, welcome to the program. What is embodied leadership?
IN DEPTH
Alison McAulay is a groundbreaking leadership development theorist and practitioner, executive coach, and trauma-based therapist. Her mission is to re-humanize businesses — and their teams and cultures — by expanding the consciousness, compassion, creativity, and capabilities of senior leaders and the team members they lead. McAulay is the co-founder and Chief Learning Officer of the boutique leadership consultancy Switch On Leadership. In this role, she is a coach and advisor to CEOs and teams at organizations like Syngenta, Zalando, Citizen, and LEGO.
McAulay is a former Team USA elite gymnast, professional dancer, and choreographer in Los Angeles and San Francisco; she has a BA in Performing Arts and advanced training in trauma-informed therapies, including Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, ACT, Attachment Theory, and Kundalini Yoga. With this wealth of knowledge and experience transforming hearts and minds, she has spent many years working with her Switch On Leadership co-founder to unfold the Self-to-System™ leadership method.
News & Story Ideas
Switch On: Ignite Your Creativity
Nick Jankel’s been on the frontlines of innovation, leadership, and social change. Learn key takeaways from his book “Switch On,” which details the seven steps anyone can break through any problem, stuckness, and stress with our hidden creativity and innate wisdom.
Embodied & Trauma-Informed Leadership
Self-healing is part of your biology — in other words, your internal operating system. It dictates who you become, and how you relate, work, and perceive reality. Alison McAulay works with fast-track entrepreneurs and world leaders on what she calls “embodied leadership.” Discover how she helps CEOs release trauma and switch on results.
Forging a Future of Work
How do you create a workplace conducive to unleashing your team’s collective potential? Nick Jankel teaches CEOs how to design employee experience to maximize meaning, mastery, majesty, and membership.
Insights From the Top Regenerative Brands in Business
Jankel has worked with senior leaders from organizations like HSBC, Boots Walgreens, Unilever, Diageo, Google, Nike, Merck, Wal-Mart, and NHS; led systemic change programs with WWF and Oxfam; worked with entrepreneurs and social innovators on four continents; and lectured at world-class universities including Yale, Oxford, SciencesPo, UCL, and London Business School. Learn his insights from top business brands.
What Are the Ethical Uses of Digital Technologies?
Discover AI, Blockchain, CRISPR, and other tech leadership challenges. Jankel says, “Every business decision, from spending a few dollars on a new app to investing a few billion in an acquisition, requires a creative harmony between purpose and profit.”
Personality Testing: Do They Work?
Nick Jankel breaks down what is right AND WRONG with personality testing. Learn four main “archetypes” in leaders and teams.
Hybrid Workplaces: Friend or Foe? Four Steps to Befriend.
Nick Jankel is a top motivational keynote speaker who inspires international audiences, whether in person or through virtual keynotes. Discover his four steps to befriend hybrid workplaces.
Well-Being at Work: Your Own Personal Resilience Plan
Develop your own “Personal Resilience Plan.” Loneliness, depression, stress, and addiction have risen due to COVID-19. People cannot be creative and adaptive when stressed and struggling. Keep teams going online and offline by helping them process change, feel safe, and have clarity of what they can do to support projects best. Support customers and colleagues who are confused, overwhelmed, and suffering. Learn eight elements of next-level resilience in your life and workplace.
Psychology, Biology, and Bio-Transformation®
All Switch On Leadership programs and products are underpinned by Bio-Transformation®, an original theory powered by the latest brain, behavioral, and complexity science integrated with trauma-informed therapies and practices from the contemplative and embodiment traditions.
Self-to-System™ Leadership Method
How do CEOs, managers, founders, fast-growth entrepreneurs, mompreneurs, and everyday workers doing their best metabolize problems into creativity and growth, prioritize purpose alongside profit, and deal with burnout, overwhelm, stress, anxiety, and lack of creativity in themselves and their co-workers? Answer: They “switch on” their leadership with the Self-to-System™ leadership method and the theory of change underneath it called Bio-Transformation®. With it, leaders, managers, and everyday folks can wake up their wisdom within and work successfully through the gnarly challenges in our world.
Spiritual Atheism: A Life & Leadership Philosophy for Healing, Belonging, & Purpose
Nick Jankel’s been on the frontlines of innovation, leadership, and social change. Learn key takeaways from his book, “Spiritual Atheist,” which details his own journey of radical self-healing from entrepreneurial burnout, clinical depression, fibromyalgia, and obesity.
Parents & Leaders: Awaken the Wisdom Within; Use Courage, Truth, Creativity, and Love
Nick Jankel’s new book, “Rise, The Four Elementals: Lead Yourself to a Life of Courage, Truth, Creativity, and Love by Awakening the Wisdom Within,” is for his son and all parents or those seeking superhero powers within themselves. Jankel ponders, “What if, inside every one of us, are four ‘superheroes’ — or Elementals — that we can call on in difficult moments to help us find calm, hope, and happiness no matter how tough things get?” Learn this and more and become everyday leaders in life.
Soft Skills: Why Is Soft so Hard?
“There ain’t nothing soft about ‘soft skills,’ states Nick Jankel. “Being empathic, flexible, creative, and collaborative are the hardest skills to develop and the most crucial for surviving, let alone succeeding, in such a fast-changing and complex world.” Learn how he makes change happen as quickly as humanly possible in life, love, and leadership.
Interview Questions
You created something called the “Self-to-System” leadership method. What is that?
Your company is called “Switch On Leadership.” What, or who, are you “switching on”?
My goodness, your global boutique consultancy has developed over 100,000 leaders. What are some of the companies you’ve worked with?
When you teach “Self-to-System” you talk about the inside out and the outside in. That reminds me of the upside-down world, doesn’t it? What do you mean by all these innies and outies?
I’ve read you teach CEOs to “metabolize problems.” That’s a different way of looking at challenges. Can you say more about why you use these terms?
What does it mean to learn to live and lead being “trauma-informed”?
What are the four archetypes every human being can access? What are the superpowers of each?
What are the five key areas of transformational leadership that everyone should seek to master?
You work with your husband/wife; what tips do you have for collaboration with friends or partners?
Your programs and products are powered by Bio-Transformation®. What’s that?
What are the four elements of being human, and why are they important to know?
Tell us about your latest book. I understand it’s won awards and was featured on the cover of Publishers’ Weekly.
How can people work with you?
What’s next for you?
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