Nick Leighton is an agency entrepreneur, business strategist, bestselling author, and global speaker with more than 25 years of experience in marketing, communications, and business leadership.
He has built and led international marketing and communications agencies, managed client-side teams, advised global organizations, and coached agency owners and business leaders on how to communicate with greater clarity, authority, and impact.
Nick is the author of the Amazon #1 bestseller The AI Effect: How Artificial Intelligence Is Rewriting the Rules of Public Relations, which explores how AI is changing communications, marketing, and the way organizations build credibility and influence.
His work increasingly focuses on what happens when AI makes polished, competent content easy to produce — and why authority, evidence, specificity, genuine expertise, and a distinctive point of view become even more important in earning attention and trust.
In addition to his work with organizations and agency leaders, Nick is an adjunct professor at Chapman University and a regular guest speaker at universities including UCLA and USC.
Through his speaking, consulting, and writing, Nick helps professionals understand how to use emerging technologies without losing the expertise, credibility, and perspective that make communication genuinely influential.
