Speaker · Host · Moderator
Nicky O'Malley
"A better future isn't just possible. It's already being built."
Positive · Uplifting · High Energy
Hope
Nature
Future-Ready
Systems Change
Leadership
Speaker · Host · Moderator
"A better future isn't just possible. It's already being built."
Positive · Uplifting · High Energy
Speaking engagements
Ideas Fest
Original Thinking in the Age of AI · September 2026
Festival
UK
New York Climate Week
The Sidebar · Transformative conversations with global leaders, changemakers and innovators · September 2026
Conference
New York
Keble College, Oxford
University of Oxford · October 2026
University
Oxford, UK
The Conduit Club
Sustainability specialist private members' club · Covent Garden, London
Members'
Club, London
International University Training Programme
Career Readiness for the Nature Era · Delivered to students across multiple universities · September 2026
Education
International
London Climate Action Week
Annual flagship climate conference, London
Conference
London
SXSW London
South by Southwest · London
Festival
London
Sustainable Ventures
London's leading green tech and sustainability community
Industry
London
EDIE Sustainability Leaders Forum
Industry-leading sustainability conference for business leaders
Industry
Conference
The Purpose Summit
Leadership summit for purpose-driven founders and executives
Summit
Leadership
Global Good Awards
Awards and summit celebrating impact-led organisations
Awards
Summit
The talks
This talk is an invitation to find reasons for hopeful optimism. From her own experience surviving the 7/7 London bombings to her career in sustainability and impact, Nicky shares a powerful reframe: hope isn't just a feeling. It is something you can actively do. She leaves audiences with tools that shift the way they see what's possible and sends them back into their work and lives with the optimistic energy to do something about it.
Leadership conferences · Summits · Networking events · Wellbeing days · Festival stages · Universities
England's largest rewilding project under single ownership. The world's largest marine protection zone. Landscape-scale peatland restoration. These things exist, and Nicky has worked on all of them. This talk takes audiences behind the scenes of some of the most ambitious nature recovery projects of our time: what made them possible, what it takes to turn an idea this big into something real, and what that teaches us about the future we are still capable of building.
Sustainability conferences · Nature organisations · Corporate ESG · Investment & philanthropy
The most important question facing forward-thinking investors today is how they can play a part in securing a thriving future for a thriving planet. This talk explores what it means to genuinely steward wealth for the natural world, not just as a risk management exercise and definitely not as an ESG tick box, but as a profound reorientation of what capital is for. Grounded in Nicky's work at the intersection of nature, entrepreneurship and investing, it offers a new frame for what responsible wealth looks like in this decade.
Family offices · Impact investors · UHNW networks · Business leadership forums
A legal revolution is underway. Rights of nature are being recognised in courts, constitutions and boardrooms across the world, and the implications for corporate governance, regulation and risk are significant. As one of the first thirty people trained as a Global Fellow of the Nature Governance Agency and Earthlaw Center, and a member of the Rights of Nature Finance and Risk Working Groups, Nicky is one of the UK's most informed voices on what this shift means for business leaders.
Corporate governance · Legal & compliance · Consulting firms · Boards & executives
The green economy is the fastest-growing opportunity of this generation, but most young people don't yet know how to find their place in it. This talk gives students and early-career professionals a clear, hopeful and practical guide to building a career that matters. Drawing on an impressive track record at the frontline of nature, business and systems change, Nicky maps the landscape of what's emerging, names the skills and mindsets that will matter most, and sends young people away with the confidence and direction to take their next step. Currently delivered to international student audiences across multiple universities.
Universities · Colleges · Student career events · Early-career professionals · Youth leadership programmes
Credentials
Nature Proxy
One of the first thirty people in the world trained as an official Nature Proxy, speaking for nature on company boards and representing the voice of future generations.
Emblehope
Instrumental in launching England's largest rewilding project under single ownership, an aspiring UNESCO biosphere and a landmark moment in UK nature recovery.
Marine Protection
Supported the creation of the world's largest marine protection zone at Tristan da Cunha, a model for ocean conservation at scale.
Cambridge CISL
Executive Education alumni, Women Leading Change Programme at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.
Rights of Nature
Global Fellow, Nature Governance Agency and Earthlaw Center. Member, Rights of Nature Finance and Risk Working Groups. Collaborating with Southampton University academics on expanding nature governance across sectors.
30x30 UK
Founder CEO of 30x30 UK, a movement organisation connecting businesses to nature conservation and volunteering opportunities across the UK.
What people say
"Nicky is doing incredible things in incredible ways. If you haven't seen her work, look her up."Andy George · Founder, Common Ground
"Nicky is an inspiration. So impressed with everything she is creating. Keep up the great work."Zoë Arden · Fellow, CISL, University of Cambridge
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Available for keynotes, thought leadership sessions, panel discussions and in-conversation events as a speaker, host or moderator.
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