David Hamilton Nichols is a transformational speaker, author, impact investor, and producer.
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Transformational Speaker
David uses energy, consciousness, wisdom, and humor to inspire people and organizations to find balance and thrive in a world of extremes.
Transformational
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He has been a featured personality, panelist, and keynote speaker at some of the largest spiritual expos and festivals throughout the United States, such as the Conscious Life Expo and the Zen Awakening Festival.
Also, he has addressed locally both clinicians and laypeople in Southern California as a lecturer at the death and dying symposium All Day Immersion Into Death at La Casa de Maria in Montecito and as a workshop presenter at Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura.
Recently, he has been a college and university keynote speaker in India on both economy and climate change, was a panelist at the Nobel Peace Center during Nobel Prize Week, and keynoted on impact investing for the United Nations Association (Young Professionals). He has also presented at family office and private wealth conferences and for the international think tank Horasis at their Global Meeting.
Events
The Power of People
Harness the human resource to alter the course of lives, organizations, and economies.
Impact Investing and Climate Change
Bring money makers and change makers together to invest in our climate future.
F*** the Fear, Seize the Power
Turn your fear into power; use it to accomplish your goals; it’s all energy.
David’s unique style is dynamic, straightforward, and at times shocking. Interested?
David is a published poet, an article writer, and a skillful raconteur.
Author.
He is currently finishing his book —
Mastering the Madness: Live Your Best Life, and Create a Better World
This upcoming book guides people to recognize the madness of the world and take their responsibility amidst it in order then to reclaim the energetic charge and ground it as raw energy for conscious creation of a better life in a better world.
Social Impact and Producer
Having begun with a real estate investment portfolio, David now concentrates on investing in companies that add value to the planet and her people. In addition to extensive media features, he has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, listed among the Top 10 Investors and Investment Companies to Follow in the International Business Times, and awarded Global Impact Champion by India Needs You for his efforts in the impact investing space.
“Making good money may be satisfying, but making great money doing good is gratifying.”
—David Hamilton Nichols
Social impact
investor.
Investments
David’s recent startup investments include companies taking bold, unique approaches towards shifting our world’s future.
The CHOOOSE platform provides tools for integrating climate action into any customer experience through automated emissions calculations, dynamic sustainability scores, climate program reporting, and customized portfolios of carbon removals, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), and high-integrity offsets.
Ovanova’s mission is to add as much value as possible to as many lives as possible. This led it to solar and storage, especially in low-income, rural communities and those most negatively affected financially from the clean energy transition. Ovanova has originated projects installed in 23 states while working with 60+ utility companies. A Skoll World Forum attendee, Ovanova has been noted for “critical impact in alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.”
Resource Renewables is a developer, owner, operator of clean energy assets tailored to empower local communities and decarbonize companies. Resource Renewables harnesses optimal mixes of power generation and energy storage into safe, resilient, total energy solutions. Founded by a Caltech PhD intent on bringing green development to communities and placing beneficial facilities next to end users.
Aō Air Is building the next generation of respiratory protection wearables, protecting users from pollution micro particles. Aō Air devices are equipped with sensors that detect threats, providing preventive system level compliance for personal and industrial protection. Aō Air’s mission is simple: to empower the world to live and work without fear of the air they breathe.
Ahura AI is the only AI technology that boosts employee development, productivity, and engagement. Ahura’s simple to use product helps learners optimize their training and upskilling time. It accomplishes this by acting as a digital tutor and learning assistant to increase the efficacy of existing LMS and content sources and to keep the user focused on learning materials.
Aether, an award-winning climate tech company and the first B Corp-certified diamond company, is advancing humanity’s transition from fossil fuels through development and commercialization of advanced materials made from captured carbon. Aether introduced the world’s first diamonds made from atmospheric CO2 with its fine jewelry line in 2020. Its technology sets a new standard for ethical, sustainable diamond production.
Virtual Control creates trusted data ecosystems for big industries starting with aviation and logistics to track cargo containers with valuable cargo like medical products. AI, IoT, and blockchain solutions and IATA industry regulator partnership let Hong Kong-based Virtual Control connect disconnected stakeholders and ensure risk mitigation. EXIT RECEIVED IN 2022.
CarePoint (formerly Africa Health Holdings) is an Africa-focused healthcare company committed to delivering excellent affordable patient care and to preparing local communities to appreciate the importance of preventive healthcare. Through technology and industry expertise, CarePoint is building a high quality, effective and sustainable healthcare system across Africa. Presently, it operates approximately 40 facilities in Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya
NFTpay (formerly Creatify) empowers humans to buy NFTs quickly, easily and securely – with credit card or crypto, no crypto wallet needed! It eliminates the KYC process and crypto wallet requirement and does the work behind the scenes to help bring mainstream adoption so everyone can benefit from NFT technology. People and businesses typically multiply revenue by 2-10X with NFTpay.
5ireChain is a layer-1 EVM-compatible sustainability-oriented smart contract platform that focuses on developing a sustainable, for-benefit ecosystem based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. 5ire’s mission is to make Blockchain sustainable and accessible for 1 billion+ people by 2030.
Kena’s music creator marketplace redistributes wealth back to creators. Kena’s artificial intelligence allows creators to monetize on their music by automatically teaching the music to learners and practitioners.
FinanEx is a fintech that provides trade finance services to underserved food exporters in Latin America. Growing 20% month-over-month, FinanEx has originated 400+ transactions for $50M+ during the first 18 months while generating a sustainable impact in vulnerable rural communities.
Cognit is crafting a cross-cell, cross-species Large Genomic Model (LGM) that enables high-resolution functional genomics through closed-loop, in-silico, gene expression, and cell engineering, redefining the drug discovery paradigm and precision medicine.
Zindi is the leading professional network of data and AI practitioners in Africa. Zindi is helping over 70,000 young people from across 190 countries build their skills and careers. Companies join Zindi to hire top vetted talent, upskill their own teams, and crowd-source tailored machine learning and AI solutions for their business.
Waterfall is a fast flowing, scalable, decentralized, EVM-compatible proof-of-stake smart contract platform that is solving the blockchain trilemma. Waterfall uses DAG technology which allows it to be highly scalable through parallel and simultaneous block production.
David is an advisor to many startups and also to the VC fund Alpha Impact 8.
David is executive producer on multiple entertainment projects such as series and documentaries. Due to the effects of COVID-19 on the industry and the nascent stages of these projects, they are either no longer in production or are delayed/disrupted.
David is currently executive producer on a soon-to-be-released, pop-culture-friendly series about people who are standing for solutions to some of society’s largest issues. Details to be released as available.
David is currently executive producer on a soon-to-be-released, pop-culture-friendly series about people who are standing for solutions to some of society’s largest issues. Details to be released as available.
Producer.
These projects include a pop-culture-friendly series about people who are standing for solutions to some of society’s largest issues and solutions-oriented documentary on child sex trafficking and slavery.
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