Keynote Speaker · Host & Moderator · Award-Winning Author
The space between what's ending and what hasn't yet formed is where leadership is actually tested.
At the threshold of change, most people go quiet. Dr. Nicole Yeldell Butts is the voice that helps leaders, organizations, and audiences tell the truth about what's ending and move toward what's next.
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Keynotes
Nicole's keynotes give audiences language for the threshold, a place they've been but couldn't previously name, and a way to move through it.
culture & change Leadership
How systems and the people leading them move through change without stalling or fracturing.
Women, identity & Transformation
How a woman moves through an identity threshold — job, relationship, self — without losing herself in the uncertainty.
"Nicole has the unique ability to move people forward, including people who may not want to be moved forward, without them realizing they are being moved. That is a rare gift!"
Host & Moderator
Nicole is the host executives trust with the hard questions. As a conference host, fireside chat interviewer, and panel moderator, she creates the conditions for leaders to say something real on stage, and for audiences to hear it.
"Her ability to foster a supportive and trusting environment allowed me to speak openly and share my experiences authentically during the discussion."
Books & SHIFT
Nicole's work is grounded in research, not just experience. Her doctoral study of organizational change at the University of Southern California, paired with 25 years leading change from the inside, became SHIFT: a five-step framework for moving through the threshold with intention. SHIFT comes to life in two award-winning, bestselling books: one for organizations transforming their culture and one for high-achieving women transforming their lives.
The Room Between
Nicole is the founder of The Room Between, a platform and community for high-achieving women navigating life's major transitions. On The Room Between: Navigating Life's Transitions, she hosts candid conversations about the moments that reshape who we are, the space between who we've been and who we're becoming.
About Nicole
Planners book Nicole for the ideas. Audiences remember her for the room she creates. People trust her within minutes, and after she speaks, there's almost always a line waiting to talk with her. She makes it safe to tell the truth, and then she helps people move. For your event, that means an audience that engages, and keeps talking long after she leaves the stage.
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