Jan Bowen-Nielsen

Will technology, robots and artificial intelligence replace financial advisers, accountants, lawyers and other advisers? In this popular, thought-provoking and positive keynote Jan explores how clients’ expectations are shifting and how advisers’ roles need to evolve to remain relevant and continue to add value. Advisers need to make more of their innate human abilities to make clients feel understood and to become a trusted adviser. But this means building a new skill set around having quality conversations with clients, a skill set which are absent from most professions’ technically focused curriculum. Jan will leave the audience with a number of practical tips they can apply in their conversations with clients to add more value and build stronger relationships.

The sessions are based on a book which Jan is in the process of writing. The book is expected to be published in 2020.

The keynote (or related masterclass) will be tailored to the profession of the audience and the client’s goals for the event.

For partners and client facing staff in professional services firms such as financial adviser practices, law firms, accountancies, consultancies and other advisory firms.

Do you struggle to attract, motivate and retain Millennials and Generation-Z team members? In this keynote Jan explores how Millennials’ and Gen-Z’s expectations of the workplace, how they are developed and their career hopes, don’t relate well to outdated management styles and company values.

However, it is just as important to recognise that organisations need to also attract and retain the Baby Boomers and Generation-X populations for longer, as the younger generations can only fill half of the jobs being vacated over the next decade. The talk will therefore look at what leaders need to consider and develop to effectively attract, lead and retain four generations of team members.

For Boards, CEOs, HR directors and senior leaders

A command and control leadership style will little time and space to grow and develop people doesn’t work anymore. The reasons for creating a coaching culture are compelling – it improves business results, it develops talent, it fosters innovation, it increases resilience, and it is what Millennials and Gen-Z now demands from their leaders in a 21st Century work environment. But many organisations struggle to implement it successfully.

Jan is an award-winning coach, coaching trainer and culture change expert, and in this keynote he explores what benefits a coaching culture brings, the implementation challenges and how to successfully transform a business. The audience will leave inspired and with practical steps to make coaching part of their culture.

(This keynote is also available as a Masterclass)

For Boards, CEOs, Business Owners, HR Directors and senior leaders.

Time is often a scarce commodity in businesses. If we just had more hours in the day, more resources, we could achieve so much more. We could grow our businesses faster, see more new customers, create more opportunities, develop that great idea we have and so on. Instead many leaders feel they are on a hamster wheel and not making much of a difference. Some people respond to this pressure by working longer hours to get things done, but that approach reaches some natural limitations eventually.

In this keynote Jan explores how we often get in the way of our own success and shares practical tools and tips for getting off the hamster wheel to become more effective and purposeful, so we can make a real difference where it actually matters to us!

(This keynote is also available as a Masterclass)

For leaders and managers at all levels.