Mimi Nicklin changes the emotional gravity of the room. Every keynote is neuroscience informed, data driven and built to shift mindsets, with tools your audience can use the next morning.

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The Empathy Algorithm: AI + HI = ROI The Human Skills AI Can’t Compete With

A compelling data driven keynote helping leaders and entrepreneurs understand why listening, influence and connection are today’s most critical strategic capabilities. Drawing on research and her work with leaders and communities across 30+ markets, Mimi makes the commercial case for human intelligence and shows why the age of AI demands stronger human skills than ever before.

YOUR AUDIENCE WILL:

– Understand the data linking listening, empathy and connection to trust, retention and performance.

– Learn the A.L.U.R. framework: Authenticity and Presence, Listening, Understanding and Recognising.

– Understand why human intelligence is the advantage AI cannot compete with.

– Leave with practical tools, from bestseller ’40 Ways To Connect With People’, to use the next morning.

IDEAL FOR Entrepreneur events. Leadership conferences, executive offsites, HR and people summits, and AI and future of work events

Everyone Needs A Connection Prescription – The New Rules for Leadership, Influence and Success

Your people are disengaged. Your customers are walking away. Your leaders are running on empty. This is a connection crisis, and it is costing you every day. Drawing on her forthcoming book, The Connection Prescription, Mimi hands your audience the cure. Leadership, influence and success start with how you connect. This keynote shows them exactly how.

YOUR AUDIENCE WILL:

– Discover why connection drives performance for people and for business.

– Explore the new rules of influence in a busy, automated world.

– Leave with practical tools, from bestseller ’40 Ways To Connect With People’, to use the next morning. – Commit to connection as a daily practice

IDEAL FOR Association events. Leadership and entrepreneur conferences, client facing and sales teams, and culture and engagement programs.

The Human Advantage – The Entrepreneur’s Secret to Winning in the AI Era

Every feed is full. Every inbox is flooded. Every competitor has AI. So why would anyone choose you? Mimi shows entrepreneurs what makes people pay attention, trust a vision, follow and keep coming back. Influence begins when people feel heard. Earn that, and you build a business people stay loyal to for years.

YOUR AUDIENCE WILL:

– Understand why influence begins when people feel listened to.

– Move from invisibility to influence by mastering Listening-Led Leadership and empathetic engagement on and offline.

– Build a personal brand, social influence and lasting loyalty with customers, teams and communities.

–  Leave with practical tools, from bestseller ’40 Ways To Connect With People’, to use the next morning.

IDEAL FOR Founder and entrepreneur summits, content creator events, business owner networks, accelerators and women in business events. Personal branding summits.

The $9 Trillion Leadership Gap Why Empathy Is the New Currency

Disconnection is costing your organisation every day, and it shows up on your balance sheet. Only 23% of employees are engaged at work (Gallup). Performance is stalling. Talent is walking out the door. Gen Z remains disconnected. 52% people are lonely. Mimi puts a number on it: a $9 trillion global empathy gap. Then she hands your leaders the human tools to close it, from the inside out.

YOUR AUDIENCE WILL:

– Unpack the real commercial cost of disconnection on performance, retention and collaboration.

– Understand why High Stress + Low Time = No Empathy, and how to break the cycle.

– Learn Listening Led Leadership™ as a practical way of leading teams

– Leave with practical tools, from bestseller ’40 Ways To Connect With People’, to use the next morning.

IDEAL FOR Boards and executive teams, HR and CHRO conferences, and industry and government summits

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Mimi Nicklin speaks to the challenges every organisation faces today: leaders feel disconnected, Gen Z feels disengaged, belonging is in decline and loneliness is at an all-time high. Gallup data shows that only 23% of employees are engaged at work. Mimi puts a number on the cost: a $9 trillion global empathy gap that drains performance, retention and collaboration.

She is the world’s #1 Empathy Advocate, a bestselling author of four books and the founder of The Empathy Letters, the global movement reconnecting people through empathy and listening.

Her answer is simple: AI + HI = ROI. Her neuroscience informed keynotes, leadership programs and

masterclasses are built on Listening Led LeadershipTM and her A.L.U.R. framework, teaching the practical application of human skills and social connection needed for our workplaces and world.

Recent engagements include keynotes to HR audiences of 4500, masterclasses for over 500 Shell leaders across three cities, 500 hospitality leaders at HSMAI, an experiential dialogue session with Conscious Capitalism leaders in New York, and opening keynotes in Florida, Dubai, Prague, Hanoi, Singapore, India and Sri Lanka. In the last year alone she has spoken in 25 countries.

She has reached 5 million people and trained over 45,000 professionals for organisations including Shell, Standard Chartered, SAP, SHRM, Capgemini and Unilever, and worked with governments in Singapore, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, the Maldives and the EU. She has shared stages with some of the world’s leading voices, including Bill Gates, Steven Bartlett and Steve Wozniak.