About Nicole

I create clarity.

I learned leadership in the Army, where coaching was a very specific thing: teaching someone the technical knowledge they needed to do the job. Later, in strategy consulting, it became more about showing people how to do the thing and navigate stakeholders. In corporate strategy, I saw coaching as influencing people to get things done.

Then I went through Georgetown’s coaching program, and my perspective shifted again. Coaching became less about having the answer and more about believing that the people I work with know the right answer. My job is to help them uncover it. I love being an enabler. I want to make the people around me better, and I believe they have it in them. Sometimes they just need space to explore and someone to ask the right questions.

I’ve also spent 15+ years doing the things I thought were important for my own career growth. Along the way, I realized how much I value having room for the rest of my life too: family, friends, travel, fulfilling work, and balance. I’m still figuring out that balance myself, and that’s part of why this work matters to me. I want to help other ambitious people figure out what they actually want, both at work and outside of it, and make intentional choices about what comes next.