Nick Jankel

With almost 30 years of experience on the front lines of disruption, he is a world authority on leading and unleashing meaningful change, innovation, and transformation to adapt to an increasingly volatile, uncertain, and complex world. A seasoned professional futurist, he explores how to shape the Future of Work, Leadership, and Business.

Nick is the co-founder of leadership consultancy SOL and is one of the world’s preeminent practitioners and theorists of transformational, adaptive, and future-fit leadership—and transformative and breakthrough innovation. He is an expert in designing, delivering, and guiding leadership development and breakthrough innovation programmes that transform leadership teams, business units, business models, and cultures.

Nick has trained and coached c.100,000 leaders, designed and delivered 250+ leadership development programs, and driven 100+ breakthrough innovation programs for Fortune 500s—working with organizations like Microsoft, Diageo, Novartis, Genentech, BBC, Google, Pfizer, LEGO, No.10 Downing, Schroders, Nike, Intel, Unilever, Zalando, HSBC, and NHS. He is a master facilitator and transformation catalyst, highly skilled at running workshops with large groups, multiple stakeholders, or small teams that drive high-impact outcomes, using every minute to unlock results.

Often described as a polymath, Nick’s life’s work has been to unfold BTX®, a rigorous science-based method for unlocking change in individuals, organizations, and systems as fast as humanly possible. It is woven from the latest neuroscience, complexity theory, and psychology, and is the foundation of SOL’s Self-to-System™ leadership curriculum, innovation programs, and systemic change programs.

Nick attended two universities in the global top 10. He studied Medicine & Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University (Triple 1st / summa cum laude) and Clinical Medicine at UCL. He has since taught at Yale, LBS, SciencesPo, UC Berkeley, Oxford, Warwick, and many other institutions, and he co-authored an academic paper on innovation that ranks in the top 1% by citations. A pioneer of purpose-led enterprise, he has trained impact entrepreneurs on four continents, served as a UK Ambassador for Entrepreneurship, and has advised No. 10 Downing Street, various UK ministries, and the European Union.

Nick is a highly sought-after global mainstage keynote speaker, booked by ambitious and discerning corporations, institutions, conferences, associations, and nations—LEGO, Unilever, WWF, Pfizer, Abu Dhabi, Neom, Google, HP, No. 10—who want exquisitely customized, experiential, and wow!-inspiring keynotes that captivate hearts, ignite minds, and unlock change.

Nick is a renowned thought leader, appearing on international news, writing for the FT, and being interviewed on broadcast radio and 100+ podcasts. He has coached celebrities and addicts on global TV shows (BBC, MTV). He is the author of several well-received books on creativity, leadership, wisdom, and transformation, including Now Lead The Change: Regenerate Our Crisis-Hit World By Mastering Transformational Leadership (2020). As a thinker, he has spoken at the Aspen Ideas Festival, TOA, SAND, Science of Consciousness, Economist, SOCAP, and SciFoo.