Flagship Keynotes

Modern work rewards constant availability, fast replies, and full calendars while quietly destroying focus, decision quality, and health. Most teams aren't failing from lack of effort. They're drowning in reaction. This talk helps leaders and teams regain control of their attention without disconnecting from their work or the internet.

Most organisations want innovation but run systems built for caution: approvals, meetings, process drag, and fear of failure. This talk shows leaders how to build entrepreneurial teams that learn fast, act with agency, and turn failure into progress especially in the AI era.

Most organisations don't have an innovation problem.

They have a curiosity problem.

In this keynote, Nic challenges the myths of "innovation theatre" and reactive change, and shows why real progress doesn't come from hackathons, buzzwords, or panic-driven ideas but from deliberately designing curiosity into how teams think, work, and experiment.

Through powerful stories, research-backed insights, and live audience interaction, this talk helps leaders and teams break out of stagnation by replacing fear, efficiency obsession, and short-term thinking with curiosity, experimentation, and long-term perspective.