Nick Jankel

Keynote Speaking - Creativity and Innovation

Nick is chief executive and creative director of wonderinc, a company dedicated to designing and producing multi-platform and immersive learning experiences focused on creativity and innovation. Their flagship product is a peer-to-peer creative leadership programme called wecreate™. It helps organisations build innovation and leadership behaviours without the need for expensive training or coaching. Customers include MTV, Co-op, WWF and the NHS. He has spearheaded multi-platform projects for BBC Learning, Disney, BBC TV and Radio, NESTA, the Learning and Skills Council; and has received major funding from the European Social Fund and the Arts Council UK. He has directed experiences at The Big Chill, The Big Weekend and Burning Man. Recently he was invited to give the keynote at the European Commission’s social entrepreneurship launch event in Brussels and has been giving leaders from the influential global community of Young President’s Organization leadership training and coaching.

Ethical Innovation

He is the co-founder of an influential global community of 1500+ ethical innovators called Disruptive Social Innovators and has worked on social innovations in many countries, consulting to, and collaborating with, the Young Foundation, the National Council of Voluntary Organisations, the Carbon Trust, the World Wildlife Foundation, the Social Enterprise Coalition, Mars Sustainable Innovation and the British Heart Foundation amongst others. He has been a Science Teacher in rural Zimbabwe and spent 2 years as a Trustee of international development charity Interact Worldwide.

Before this, Nick ran a global innovation and strategy consultancy (which he founded aged 24, without any funding or investment of any kind) and grew it to a world-class organisation with 35 staff and millions in billings. Here he worked with the senior management of many of the world’s most successful companies - such as Orange, PepsiCo, Arcadia, Nokia, Diageo, PlayStation, Disney and Microsoft - to create ideas and strategies key to their future. He designed the first major in-house creativity and innovation programmes for Tesco and Cadbury - the inspiration for the creation of wecreate™ - and other training programmes for Shell, Unilever and many others. He started his career as creative strategist, specialising in applied psychology, at global ad agency TBWA Chiat / Day, where he won an award for creative strategy from the industry body, the Account Planning Group.

Nick Jenkel - Keynote Speaker and Lecturer

Nick has taught on the MBA programmes of 3 of the UK’s top 5 business schools, including Oxford and Warwick. He has delivered talks and keynote addresses for over 30 conferences worldwide including for: The Arts Council, on creativity in business; the Scottish Institute for Enterprise on social innovation; the UK’s annual social enterprise conference ‘Voice’; Gordon Brown’s social business conference ‘Chain Reaction’; the unofficial social enterprise conference ‘Shine Unconference’; the digital collaboration event ‘2gether’; and for the NHS Employer’s Annual Conference. Nick is a Fellow of the RSA and a Visiting Research Fellow at Exeter and Bath Universities.

He is currently writing a book on collaborative mindsets.

Speaking Topics

• Everyday leadership
• Leadership & creativity
• Having work / life balance
• Social innovation
• Disrupting systems with big ideas
• Social entrepreneurship
• The power of the mind
• The mind of a leader
• The psychology of happiness
• How to capture hearts and minds
• Ethical choices in a fast-moving world
• Ethical business leadership
• Ethical brand leadership
• The soul of business
• Peer-2-Peer web and business ideas
• Social Media and political and social change
• Collaboration IQ (the intelligence needed for collaboration)
• Collaborative Innovation
• Leadership in times of crisis

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