Public Speaking
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Each year, I accept a small number of speaking engagements, including keynote conference speeches, corporate events and private boardroom functions. My focus is on the critical importance of long term thinking in a fast-moving world, and on how to make short term decisions that will stand the test of time. This includes a particular emphasis on the implications of disruption, the need to "burn the base case" and give up the widespread addiction to the status quo, "the most dangerous white-collar drug in use in boardrooms today", making use of a new generation of quantitative big data/analytics tools to do so.
With 30 years experience in strategic, corporate and financial advisory work, I have the privilege of a huge range of practical examples of successes and failures of corporate and government decision-making, covering most major economies, and most of the larger countries in the Asia Pacific region, and I have extensive personal experience of cross-border, cross cultural negotiation and business development. |
Small data, big decisions...
Recent engagements:
APP Conference, Gold Coast, Australia - May 2018 Myriad, Brisbane, Australia - May 2018 |
Live from techday NYC |
Financing High speed rail |
Australia - finance hub |
If you would like to enquire in relation to potential speaking opportunities, please provide brief background to the event below.
Biographical information
Short form: Co-founder of global advisory business Pottinger and B2B Tech start-up collaborator. Participant in the B20 and
China's One Belt One Road initiative. Author of The Long Term Starts Tomorrow and a leading global thinker on "The Future of Society".
China's One Belt One Road initiative. Author of The Long Term Starts Tomorrow and a leading global thinker on "The Future of Society".
Biographical notes
Nigel Lake is an investment banker, strategic advisor, sustainability expert, entrepreneur and author. Founder and Executive Chair of Pottinger, he has lived and worked in most of the world’s top thirty economies and across all major industry sectors. He has an insider’s view of Board decision-making at dozens of the world’s largest companies and has advised on hundreds of billions of dollars of M&A transactions and numerous strategic assignments. He co-founded Pottinger in 2003, Atomli in 2015 and Runway 41 in 2017.
From an early age, he has had a fascination with how things work, and a passionate belief that with the right perspective there is (nearly) always a more insightful alternative to conventional wisdom. He has also been at the forefront of developing new decision-making methodologies for 30 years, including the application of big data analysis to boardroom decisions.
Nigel has been a member of various B20 Task Forces, leads Pottinger's involvement in China's Belt and Road Initiative, and was previously a Senior Associate of the Cambridge University Institute for Sustainability Leadership. In Australia, he has been one of the key advisors to Federal Government on a number of the most sensitive financial system, foreign investment and infrastructure matters over recent years.
He is author of The Long Term Starts Tomorrow and The Confidence Tree (to be released shortly), Pottinger's white paper related to the future of work "The Future of Society", and is a regular contributor to the highly rated Pottinger Perspectives series. Nigel is a regular commentator on leading business TV programs.
Nigel graduated with a Masters degree from Cambridge University in Natural Sciences, where he studied both physical sciences as well as History and Philosophy of Science. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. He has three children, two cats and an amazing wife.
Nigel Lake is an investment banker, strategic advisor, sustainability expert, entrepreneur and author. Founder and Executive Chair of Pottinger, he has lived and worked in most of the world’s top thirty economies and across all major industry sectors. He has an insider’s view of Board decision-making at dozens of the world’s largest companies and has advised on hundreds of billions of dollars of M&A transactions and numerous strategic assignments. He co-founded Pottinger in 2003, Atomli in 2015 and Runway 41 in 2017.
From an early age, he has had a fascination with how things work, and a passionate belief that with the right perspective there is (nearly) always a more insightful alternative to conventional wisdom. He has also been at the forefront of developing new decision-making methodologies for 30 years, including the application of big data analysis to boardroom decisions.
Nigel has been a member of various B20 Task Forces, leads Pottinger's involvement in China's Belt and Road Initiative, and was previously a Senior Associate of the Cambridge University Institute for Sustainability Leadership. In Australia, he has been one of the key advisors to Federal Government on a number of the most sensitive financial system, foreign investment and infrastructure matters over recent years.
He is author of The Long Term Starts Tomorrow and The Confidence Tree (to be released shortly), Pottinger's white paper related to the future of work "The Future of Society", and is a regular contributor to the highly rated Pottinger Perspectives series. Nigel is a regular commentator on leading business TV programs.
Nigel graduated with a Masters degree from Cambridge University in Natural Sciences, where he studied both physical sciences as well as History and Philosophy of Science. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. He has three children, two cats and an amazing wife.
