Make it matter.
Lead boldly.
Think creatively.
When everything around us is shifting, so must we.
The World of work is uncertain, fast and tech-led. Every previous shift gave us time to prepare and to catch up. This one is different and it’s likely we will never be afforded those luxuries again.
ShakerMakers: this is your time to create the opportunities and shape the future. Lead your own personal shift or lead a business pivot. You already know that:
The thinking, behaviours and strategies that carried people this far have now become the professional hangovers. Business is changing, so are our aspirations.
The old playbooks are worn out.
AI is rewriting almost everything.
Uncertainty is the new normal.
That means disruption.
For many, that means displacement.
For the few, it’s the biggest opportunity in working history.
Welcome to the future. It’s messy, complex and undefined.
Where humanness is the new premium.
And your next move will mean going three steps deeper to go three steps forward.
ShakerMakers exists to close the gap between how fast the world is changing and how fast we’re able to change with it - so that the people and organisations who could make this world better are equipped to do exactly that.
What We Do
We spark and support significant shifts and pivots through Workshops, VIP days, Masterminds, Retreats, Programmes and experiences.
Designing what’s next is not a linear process but involves:
A Rethink, Refocus, Reset, Reinvent, Reposition.
Turning disruption into direction, overthink into opportunity and status quo into a creative strategy.
Doing the inside-out work that makes the external shift happen.
Three steps deeper to go three steps forward. This is how you create what comes next.
Our Core ShakerMaker Experiences
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A 12-month accelerator for ambitious professionals who are ready to reset their direction and rise into what’s next.
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An in-house accelerator for teams and leaders needing to deeply influence and create complex cultural shifts.
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A one-day workshop to reframe identity, sharpen confidence, and reignite your creative advantage.
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High-energy events where ambitious people collide with bold ideas.
Who It’s For
ShakerMakers is for anyone curious about, on the verge of, in the midst of or currently creating whats next.
Ambitious and purposeful professionals compelled to not just settle.
Business Owners and Leaders who need to create real shifts in thinking, mindset, belief and behaviour.
L&D & HR Professionals developing the skills and behaviours across their Organisation.
If you’re reading this and nodding, you’ve found your place.
ShakerMakers isn’t for everyone. It’s not a playbook or step-by-step system. It is an intuitive environment - exactly what is needed against a challenging backdrop.
We’re talking your language
Underbelly, not thick skin. Growth rather than performing competence.
Wobble well, not stiff upper lip. We become better not just more resilient for the wobble. It’s not about learning to cope with more or bouncing back unchanged.
Wise, not clever. Clever adds or repeats. Wise waits. Stopping the workshop mid-afternoon rather than filling the space.
Owning your wiring. Giving an air supply to the drivers that unconsciously sit beneath your behaviours so that you get to choose.
Shedding skin. Out with the old enables space for the new. Done regularly we become more adaptable and able to learn - at scale - it changes cultures.
Driving in the fog on an unknown road. Creating new relationships with uncertainty, clarity and control. Instinct and real time data rather than reaching for the out of date map.
Bold and brave, not loud. The honest questions, personal leadership, conviction, courage and confidence to do the right things, often against the grain.
Foraging, not forcing. Creativity doesn’t respond to deadlines and brainstorms on demand - it responds to curiosity. Opportunity works the same way. Both light us up, even in people who’ve decided they’re not creative. Neither one is standardised, and neither one is owned - they’re unique.
Intelligences, not simply intellect. Offices across the globe have for years seen the smartest and most technically sound get promoted into roles they then weren’t skilled for. Those same workplaces are changing - they need EQ to read what’s not being said, AQ to harness business opportunities, PQ to tell us what our heads are too busy to notice and now the ability to work with an artificial intelligence. Intellect was never wrong - it is just not the whole answer.
None of us are our finished product, the fun is in the making. It underpins everything we do and everyone that’s a true ShakerMaker.
You’ll Know If You
Belong Here
Why Now
Everything is shifting and so must we.
This isn’t about keeping up. It’’s about redefining everything from identity to our relationship with uncertainty. Discomfort may not be the warning signal anymore, it might be the green light.
AI just made you more human whether you’re ready or not.
Many of us are dabbling with AI, organisations are racing to adopt it. But there are skills that cant be automated augmented or agented - your purpose, your wisdom, your vision, your judgement, your ideas, your creativity, your integrity, your empathy, your connection - those have just become THE most valuable commodity. The question is whether you’re developing them intentionally.
The future stopped looking familiar.
Change used to feel manageable and even then it often failed. Now it’s relentless, we can no longer think about change in the same way. When everything is shifting, so must we. It’s not about having a plan that goes out of date as soon as its written. Its about knowing where you’re headed and being adaptive and confident enough to make it happen.
Standing still is a risk.
Moving forward is an opportunity.
If any of this landed, we could be your kind of people.
Meet Kerry Nickols
Founder of ShakerMakers.
Chief Mischief Maker.
For over a decade, Kerry has helped ambitious professionals, high-performing teams and business leaders unlock clarity, change direction, and lead with conviction.
“The people who thrive in uncertain times aren’t the loudest - they’re the clearest, the most creative, the most adaptive and the most human. That’s what makes ShakerMakers impossible to ignore.”