About Crighton Nichols

Crighton Nichols enjoys helping organisations figure out what they should be doing, and how to do it better. He is passionate about harnessing the creative potential of diverse stakeholders when collaborating on inspirational challenges that benefit society at a systemic level. He leverages his deep understanding of agile, (complex) systems, computational, and design thinking when doing so, and is inspired by Indigenous ways of knowing, doing, and being. For over fifteen years, he has been enabling global industry, government, community and research leaders to understand, design and develop their strategy, innovation, leadership and culture, building on a decade before this in more technical roles in the software industry. He has learnt that leadership provides the foundation upon which to cultivate an organisation’s strategy and culture. As such, connected leadership provides the foundation for how he works. Crighton has also founded, advised and invested in a number of deep-tech startups that are aiming to change the world for the better. He has a PhD in Cross-Cultural Design & Innovation, a Masters degree in Development Studies, a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons I – Computer Systems), and a Bachelor of Science (Physics). He is an Honorary Associate Professor with the School of Cybernetics at the Australian National University.

Do you want to achieve more than you ever imagined was possible? In this talk, Crighton Nichols will share five leadership lessons for nurturing high performing teams and a sustainable world – lessons that will help you achieve the impossible! These lessons are based on more than a decade of research and practice combining the best of Indigenous and Western science and wisdom. After all, as Sir David Attenborough said: “We’ve come this far because we are the smartest creatures that have ever lived. But to continue, we require more than intelligence. We require wisdom.”