Kevin Cottam
Empower your teams with Kevin Cottam’s transformative Nomadic Mindset, perfect for navigating uncertainty and unlocking bold, resilient leadership.
Why book Kevin Cottam for your next event
- Leading organizations like Novartis, Haribo, OCBC, and Club Med trust Kevin to spark cultural shifts, unlock leadership potential, and support teams in navigating strategic transitions.
- Kevin’s bestselling book The Nomadic Mindset is grounded in immersive field research across Mongolia, Kenya, and Morocco, bringing authentic, field-tested insights into leadership transformation.
- Through captivating storytelling and global insights, Kevin empowers organizations to shift mindsets, spark creativity, and lead boldly in the face of complex challenges.
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The Nomadic Mindset: Lead Beyond Boundaries.
Olympic choreographer turned leadership expert, Kevin Cottam empowers teams to thrive in change. Through The Nomadic Mindset, his keynotes inspire agility, resilience, and bold thinking trusted by Novartis, Haribo, and Club Med to drive transformation and lasting growth. His storytelling captivates audiences and sparks the mindset shifts today’s leaders urgently need.
Keynote Speaker Kevin Cottam is a globally recognized leadership voice, bestselling author, and former Olympic choreographer who brings a unique blend of performance mastery, cultural insight, and executive coaching to the keynote stage. With a professional journey spanning over four decades across four continents, Kevin has worked with Olympic and World Figure Skating champions, directed large-scale ceremonies, and consulted with global brands—experiences that deeply inform his powerful message on modern leadership.
He is best known for his innovative leadership philosophy, The Nomadic Mindset, inspired by immersive, on-the-ground research with nomadic tribes in Mongolia, Kenya, and Morocco. Through this compelling framework, Kevin helps organizations break out of rigid, outdated structures and develop leadership cultures rooted in adaptability, agility, and bold decision-making.
His proprietary Nomadic Transition Framework equips business leaders with practical tools to manage transitions, navigate uncertainty, and lead with clarity. Kevin’s keynotes are trusted by industry leaders including Novartis, Haribo, Club Med, and OCBC to spark cultural shifts and support strategic transformation.
Captivating, insightful, and deeply relevant, Kevin’s keynotes go beyond inspiration, they ignite action. He combines storytelling, science, and strategy to deliver high-impact experiences that challenge assumptions and spark lasting behavioral change.
Whether your organization is facing disruption, expansion, or reinvention, book Kevin Cottam for your event to inspire your people, elevate leadership capabilities, and create a mindset that thrives in the face of constant change.
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Keynotes
Keynote by Kevin Cottam: Unleash Potential: Perform & Stay Relevant
Potential, Performance, Mobility
In a world moving at hyper-speed, where chaos and uncertainty are constant, many leaders and teams are blocked—trapped by fear, outdated thinking, and declining performance. The cost? Loss of relevance and missed opportunities.
In this transformational keynote, Kevin Cottam delivers an urgent message: to survive, stay relevant, and thrive in today’s polycrisis-driven world, you must unleash your true potential, elevate performance, and master workplace mobility.
Drawing on the Nomadic Mindset and the 5E’s Nomadic Transition Framework, Kevin shows how to shift from fear to courage, stagnation to momentum, and irrelevance to relevance—helping you and your teams break free, ignite ambition, and lead with confidence in an ever-evolving landscape.
Key Takeaways
- Apply the 5E’s Framework to lead transitions with confidence and momentum.
- Connect the dots to uncover growth opportunities in the chaos
- Inspire action and performance by aligning purpose, passion, and values.
- Break mental barriers that limit performance and adaptability.
- Adopt a nomadic mindset to unlock growth, stay relevant and lead with a fresh perspective.
Elevated Outcomes
You will…
- Unlock hidden potential to drive personal and organizational growth.
- Lead courageously and perform at your best, even in high uncertainty
- Ignite ambition and momentum, breaking free from stuck places.
- Build mobility—the agility to shift, adapt, and stay ahead of change
Future-proof leadership by staying relevant, resilient, and ready.
Keynote by Kevin Cottam: The Natural Leadership Cycle: Thrive in Uncertainty
Leadership, Mindset, Movement
A dynamic keynote that empowers leaders to unlock the movement, balance, and adaptability organizations need to thrive in uncertainty—by co-creating ecosystems that, like nature, continuously explore (Nomad), build (Builder), harvest (Settler), and evolve.
Many organizations today are trapped in reactive cycles—focused on short-term outputs, constant problem-solving, and rigid structures—leaving them unable to navigate complexity with agility. Yet nature thrives through adaptability, regenerating and evolving in cycles.
Inspired by nature and nomadic cultures, this keynote introduces the Natural Leadership Cycle—a transformative framework blending Nomad, Builder, and Settler mindsets to help organizations shift from reactive survival to adaptive transformation.
Key Takeaways
- Diagnose where your organization is stuck (Nomad/Builder/Settler imbalance) and create movement.
- Apply the 5E’s Nomadic Transition Framework to navigate transitions with flow and agility.
- Lead conscious cycles of exploration, building, and harvesting
- Introduce nature-inspired leadership principles into your strategy and organizational design.
- Turn uncertainty into innovation, momentum and cultural regeneration.
Elevated Outcomes
- Unlock the power of the 3 mindsets—Nomad, Builder, Settler—as a leadership strategy.
- Create cultures that mirror nature’s resilience.
- Shift from transactional reactions to a transformational and evolutionary mindset.
- Strengthen team resilience and unlock organizational mobility.
Build teams ready to explore, create, and evolve.
Keynote by Kevin Cottam: Unlock your Nomadic Mindset
Perspective, Mindset, Opportunity
The polycrisis is here—and with it, a call to reimagine how we navigate the unknown. In a world demanding fresh thinking, too many leaders still rely on outdated approaches and mindsets.
This keynote invites you to unlock the keys to your Nomadic Mindset—a mindset of adaptability, curiosity, and the ability to see possibilities and opportunities in every challenge. Through powerful storytelling and research with nomadic cultures in Mongolia, Kenya, and Morocco, Kevin Cottam inspires you to expand beyond conventional patterns.
You’ll discover the 5E’s Nomadic Transition Framework, designed to help you shift perspective, spark new ideas, and explore a fresh, dynamic way of leading and living.
Key Takeaways:
- Unlock a fresh perspective and the mindset keys to thrive in uncertainty and seize new opportunities.
- Apply the 5E’s Nomadic Mapping Journey Framework to spark creativity and fresh thinking.
- Identify your dominant mindset—Nomad, Builder, or Settler—and leverage its strengths.
- Build adaptability by cultivating curiosity, courage, and agility.
- Reframe transitions as catalysts for bold, future-ready leadership.
Elevated Outcomes:
You will…
- Feel equipped to navigate uncertainty by applying the Nomadic Mindset to complex challenges.
- Spark fresh creativity and innovation through the 5E’s framework.
- Gain clarity on your personal and leadership journey by recognizing your dominant mindset.
- Transform how you view change—embracing it as possibility and opportunity not limitation.
- Strengthen your resilience and adaptability muscles with confidence and optimism.
