Nik Wood
Senior leadership events rise or fall on the person holding the room. A weak moderator turns a strong agenda into a series of disconnected sessions. A strong one extracts the argument from each speaker, manages tempo across a long day, and gives the audience a reason to stay engaged after lunch.
Nik Wood is a former BBC business broadcaster who hosts, moderates and chairs senior corporate events, interviewing leadership panels and integrating live film content into the running order.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Nik Wood
- BBC business desk credibility on stage. Years anchoring Working Lunch, Business Breakfast and Wake up to Money mean he reads board-level interviewees with the calibration of a working business journalist, not a hired host.
- He produces as well as presents. Through Good Call Media he brings his own camera and editing capability into the event, so live film inserts, recorded interviews and stage content are built and run by the same team that hosts the day.
- He is equally comfortable interviewing a CEO and a frontline employee. The marketing and communications grounding at Hammonds before broadcast journalism shows up in how he handles mixed-seniority panels.
- A working journalist’s instinct for the unscripted moment. He has interviewed four UK prime ministers and a string of African heads of state across his career, which translates to composure when a corporate panel goes off-script.
Biography highlights
- Former BBC business correspondent and presenter on Working Lunch, Business Breakfast and Wake up to Money.
- Co-founder and director of Good Call Media, an independent corporate film and event production company established in 2007.
- Career interviews include four UK prime ministers and several African presidents.
- Reporting background covers the Northern Ireland conflict and financial markets across London, Asia and the United States.
- Earlier career as Director of Marketing and Communications at Hammonds law firm.
- Corporate and not-for-profit clients include the Eden Project, CQI, IMLPO and Build Africa.
Biography
The host of a senior corporate event has a narrow job and a wide one. The narrow job is timekeeping and introductions. The wide job is reading the room, extracting the argument from each speaker, and giving the audience a reason to lean in after the third panel of the morning. Nik Wood does the wide job.
His credibility on stage comes from the BBC business desk. As a business correspondent and anchor on Working Lunch, Business Breakfast and Wake up to Money, he interviewed chief executives, regulators and policymakers as a working journalist, not as a meeting facilitator. Earlier reporting work spanned the Northern Ireland conflict and financial markets in London, Asia and the United States. Four UK prime ministers and several African presidents sat across the desk from him.
In 2007 he co-founded Good Call Media with producer Fiona Molloy. The company is a working film and event production house, not a personal speaking vehicle. That matters operationally: when Nik hosts an event, the same team builds the film inserts, runs the recorded interviews and edits the day’s content. The audience gets a single coherent production rather than a host bolted onto someone else’s running order.
He began his career as Director of Marketing and Communications at Hammonds law firm. The combination of in-house corporate communications experience and broadcast journalism explains the range he is booked for: investor and analyst events, awards ceremonies, internal town halls, board-facing panels, and client engagements at organisations from the Eden Project to Build Africa.
Key speaking topics
- Conference moderation and event chairing
- On-stage interviewing of senior executives
- Awards ceremony hosting
- Panel facilitation
- Live broadcast interviewing
- Corporate film and video production
- Business journalism
Ideal for
- Companies running investor days, AGMs or analyst events that need a host who can interview a CFO with credibility.
- Internal leadership offsites and town halls where the chair needs to draw out both board and frontline voices.
- Awards ceremonies and recognition events requiring a confident master of ceremonies.
- Conference organisers who want host and production handled by a single team.
Audience outcomes
- A running order that holds together across a full day, with each session building on the last.
- Interviews with senior speakers that surface the actual argument, not the prepared statement.
- Live film and video content integrated into the stage programme, used to set up sessions and shift pace.
- A panel discussion that stays on the question the audience came to hear answered.