United Kingdom •
$1,501 - $5,000
About
I don't speak from theory. I speak from a decade of building something real in some of the most challenging environments on earth. Every story I tell on stage is one I've lived, and I bring the same energy and passion to a talk that I bring to a race day. Working across four continents with communities actively changing their own futures has given me a genuinely optimistic view of what people are capable of, and that comes through in every session. I tailor every talk to the audience and the brief, I'm easy to work with, and I leave rooms feeling something, not just thinking something. I've held corporate boardrooms, festival stages, school halls and church congregations with equal confidence, and I do it with honesty, warmth and humour. If you want a speaker who's actually done the thing they're talking about, we should have a conversation.
Safe. Great. Epic.
How a rooftop crisis in Guatemala taught me how to build anything that lasts. After a race that went badly wrong in Guatemala, Nick lay on a rooftop staring at the sky for seven hours, fighting the voice that said quit. What emerged was the Impact Pyramid - a simplified framework for building anything meaningful across languages and cultures: safe before great, great before epic. This talk is about the discipline of foundations, the danger of skipping steps, and the leadership it takes to start again when you’ve let people down. Audiences leave with a practical framework and a founder’s honest account of what it costs to get things right.
Run Together, With Others, For Others
What a decade of marathons in developing nations taught me about community and leadership. Impact Marathon doesn’t just organise races. It builds temporary communities that leave permanent change. Over ten years and ten countries, Nick has watched what happens when strangers run together for something bigger than a finish time. This talk unpacks the mechanics of community: how shared physical challenge creates belonging; how trust is built through action rather than words; and why the best organisations are the ones where everyone runs the same direction. A grounded, story-rich talk about what it actually takes to bring people together.
The Hardest Step
On discipline, doubt, and the daily decision to keep going. The hardest step is rarely the one at mile twenty. It’s the one out the door at six in the morning when nobody’s watching. Nick traces the thread from his first run, a broken man circling a London dock, through a decade of building Impact Marathon, to where he is now: rebuilding his life, his body, and his work from Pembrokeshire. This is a talk about endurance as a daily practice and not a dramatic gesture written at a motivational talk. About showing up, falling short, and showing up again. Honest, occasionally funny, and grounded in the reality of what discipline actually looks like when you strip away the highlight reel.
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