Story & Voice and a Sugar Daddy? Oh my! New Leadership Paradigm with Nikki Innocent - 003

In this episode, Keisha Shields has a Conversation with a Friend, Nikki Innocent. Keisha & Nikki talk about the experiences of being a young "black" woman in corporate, about that feeling of being silenced and seeing other women with brilliant visions being silenced in the workplace. Keisha & Nikki also dig into coping and getting out from underneath narcissistic "leaders" and venturing out into their own independent coaching & consulting companies as well as various other entrepreneurial ventures. 

Keisha & Nikki also talk about the hardships that can come with being the coach in friendships and in finding and owning their stories and voices.

 

Nikki Innocent is a humanity activist, keynote speaker, and social entrepreneur with a focus on women’s leadership and diversity & inclusion. After over a decade of experience in the corporate world, at companies like Bain & Company and Bain Capital, Nikki left her corporate career and ventured into the entrepreneurial world to find a solution to the challenges she faced in the workplace. She is a certified new paradigm women’s leadership coach and diversity & inclusion facilitator who works with both individuals and groups.

Her company, Story & Voice, offers both small and large-scale training implementations for organizations who are looking for an action based approach to overcome diversity & inclusion hurdles in a shame-free environment.

Nikki is a two-time TEDx speaker who dives into topics of belonging, inclusion and leading authentically. Her first TEDx talk is about embracing the times in life where you feel like you don’t fit in, the times you feel “other” and her second TEDx is all about rewriting the rules in your life to thrive fully as you. Nikki also speaks about the next generation of leadership, recognizing and overcoming burnout, betting on yourself, finding and following your purpose and so much more. 

Nikki’s podcast, Checkbox Other, explores a variety of topics and features guests who discuss times in their lives where they have felt "other" or that they didn’t belong. The power of witnessing these stories is that we experience empathy and shared humanity. We see that despite the ways we differ, we are much more alike than we are different.