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Why Nicholas?
“Organisations are facing seismic shifts: digital overload, AI transformation, generational change, and widespread disengagement.”
Nicholas helps leaders cut through the noise and lead with soul, clarity, and human connection. He brings a rare mix of:
🔹Psychology & Neuroscience – BSc in Psychology, MIT-certified in Neuroscience for Leadership.
🔹Business Impact – Track record of driving measurable improvements in engagement, culture, personal effectiveness and customer experience.
🔹Theatre & Storytelling – Making ideas unforgettable and practical through lived stories, metaphors, and interaction.
Nicholas is known for helping leaders and teams:
🔹Create cultures where people thrive and perform
🔹Humanise technology and AI adoption
🔹Communicate with clarity, presence, and impact
🔹Build emotionally mature, digitally fit leadership habits
Speaking Themes
🔹 Humanising AI – Seven Principles for Successful AI Adoption
AI is changing everything. Yet 95% of investments ($30-40 billion per annum) fail to deliver on expectations. Nicholas shares seven practical principles that help leaders integrate AI without losing the human connection that drives performance, trust, and innovation.
🔹 The Mindful Communicator
Based on his book and CPD-accredited coaching programme, Nicholas introduces seven principles that transform the way leaders and their teams show up, speak, and connect. Audiences leave with micro-habits they can apply immediately.
🔹 Driving Business with Soul
In an age of uncertainty and disengagement, organisations need more than process and metrics — they need soul. Nicholas shows how values, purpose, and presence can transform leadership, brand, and customer experience.
🔹 Speaker Coaching – Speaking with Impact and Presence
Nicholas brings his background as a theatre director and award-winning facilitator to help senior leaders, executives, and emerging speakers own the stage, the room, or the screen.
world class coaching
Whether preparing for a keynote, investor pitch, board presentation, or TED talk, he helps clients:
🔹 Harness presence and gravitas under pressure
🔹 Align voice, body, and energy with intention
🔹 Tell stories that land emotionally and intellectually
🔹 Handle nerves and sharpen delivery through proven stagecraft techniques
🔹 Transform from competent presenters into compelling communicators who inspire action
This is not generic presentation skills training — it’s world-class speaker coaching that blends performance psychology, theatre direction, and corporate insight.