KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Your company doesn’t have an innovation problem, it has a curiosity problem. Nic is obsessively curious and carried this trait through into every business that he has built over the past 20 years.
My flagship keynote helps businesses understand that innovation is an outcome, not an action.
The future of work is inclusive, diverse and experimental and Nic can help you realise this future.
Problems are most effectively solved when people believe they have the opportunity to speak freely, engage honestly and contribute in a meaningful way to the direction of the business and the lives of their colleagues, clients and customers
Nic is an experienced entrepreneur who believes that an effective and inclusive company culture can drive positive change in the world. Cohesive teams produce elegant solutions to complex problems.
A compelling company culture attracts the best talent and over more than 20 years as an entrepreneur and consultant Nic has learned that above all else, the right people, doing the right work, pointed in the right direction can overcome any problem and produce profitable results.
Nic has multiple startup exits behind him and a lifetime of business experience that shines through in his keynote presentations. He started coding at 11, built his first website when he was 12 and started his first business at age 16. Nic is a best-selling author and startup investor. Click here for more about Nic.
KEYNOTES
CREATING A CULTURE OF INNOVATION
How Curious Companies Outperform, Outmanoeuvre and Out-Think Their Competitors
The simple act of promoting curiosity in a company can grow profits, increase team retention and reduce group conflict. In this empowering presentation, Nic unearths the lessons, failings, and triumphs of the most curious and innovative businesses in the world.
Curiosity is the foundation used by successful startups to build disruptive businesses, hire the best people and solve the biggest problems we face in the world today.
In this revealing keynote, Nic unpacks the CURIOSITY CATALYST that leads teams and organisations towards the innovative outcomes they are looking for.
Audiences will leave this talk:
Understanding the role they play in finding innovative solutions to unique problems that your business is facing
Excited to discover their own curiosity and how it can change their working environment.
Motivated to engage with their colleagues and find new problems to solve in interesting ways.
THE FUTURE OF COMPANY COLLABORATION
Turn Your Team Into A Collaborative Powerhouse
Innovation is longer border-bound or location-specific.
Talent is evenly distributed around the globe and opportunity is finally catching up. Your business was once bound by borders in the hunt for talent. If you were hiring an engineer you were looking at local universities, local competitors and border-bound hiring options.
With the global pandemic of 2020/21 talent has been uncovered across the globe. Hiring has become a world-wide endeavour and the people that can take your business to the next level are no longer found in your back yard.
How will businesses find, hire and retain the best in the world in 2022 and beyond?
How is your company catering for the distributed opportunity that exists?
This talk will cover key concepts and insights, including:
How technology and catastrophe came together to show us that we can tap into genius globally
The shifting notion of work and how businesses need to adapt accordingly.
Why do we care if it takes someone 8 hours or 1 hour to complete a task?
Legacy management principles that need to end
How to set better goals, intentions and outcomes for our teams and businesses
How do we find talent in this new world?
How do we nurture talent?
How do we retain talent?
Case studies of companies doing smart things to find and utilize global talent
BEATING THE BURNOUT BEAST
How Leaders Can Create a Culture That Celebrates and Prioritises Mental Health
A culture that promotes burnout cannot be a profitable culture.
A business that puts the team’s mental health above everything else is going to attract the best talent in the world. Digital fatigue and chronic burnout are plagues on modern business and without realising it, teams underperform and drive each other to the edge of sanity. We believe we are working better thanks to digital tools but these same tools cause digital fatigue and lead to chronic burnout.
Historically, mental health has been an unknown and often avoided topic for businesses and individuals trying to build something of value.
For a business to attract the best talent and operate at the highest level, mental fitness must become a central part of company strategy.
Through deep research and personal experience, Nic unpacks chronic burnout and helps businesses and individuals unlearn the habits that are starving them of a good night’s sleep. Digital fatigue and the onslaught of negative news leave us helpless to the technology meant to make our lives more efficient.
In this keynote you will unlearn certain habits and discover hacks to help you:
Identify digital fatigue
Build a culture that embraces mental fitness
Use the right tools to create mental resilience and agility
Unlock a creative mindset through rest and intentional boredom
Your team will leave this keynote with the skills to fight burnout and take back their mental health.
HEALING AND NURTURING COMPANY CULTURE
How to turn trauma and chaos into opportunity and profit
It’s been a tough and painful pandemic over the past two years but trauma is the root of progress.
Perfect conditions are bad for progress while bad conditions are perfect for progress. This only holds true if you and your team know how to turn trauma into profit.
This talk shows you the way.
Your team will leave this talk with:
Tools to see trauma for what it is
Mental models to overcome the struggles and obstacles being faced
Concrete examples of others who have used trauma to improve their lives and businesses
The ability to be objective, see potential in pain and figure out how to attack the line of least expectation.
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