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A trusted voice on leadership, culture, and the transitions that reshape us.
Dr. Nicole Yeldell Butts offers expert commentary on organizational change, workplace culture, women's leadership, and the space between who we've been and who we're becoming, for journalists, producers, and podcast hosts seeking insight grounded in research and lived experience.
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By Dr. Nicole Yeldell Butts · Black Enterprise
Black Women Aren't Leaving the Workforce, They're Rejecting Who It Requires Them to Be
A conversation on alignment, burnout, leadership, and the growing shift toward self-directed work.
Read ArticleBy Dr. Nicole Yeldell Butts · Black Enterprise
The Strategic Starvation of Modern Leadership
Why today's leaders are being set up to fail — and what organizations must do differently to develop leaders who can actually lead.
Read ArticleBy Dr. Nicole Yeldell Butts · Essence
Strong, Grateful, and Not Okay: The Truth Black Women Are Not Telling About Mental Health
How Black women use gratitude and resilience as a shield, and why mental health begins with telling the truth.
Read ArticleFeature · Women's Journal
Dr. Nicole Yeldell Butts Helps Women Live Unapologetically
A profile of Nicole's work helping women move beyond shrinking, reconnect with who they're becoming, and live with greater clarity, confidence, and alignment.
Read ArticleExpert Contributor · HerAgenda
Plan a Summer Sabbatical Without Stalling Your Career
Practical guidance on how women can create space for renewal without losing professional momentum.
Read ArticleNicole Can Speak To
- Why organizational change fails in the transition, not the strategy.
- Drift: the gap between what organizations say they value and how they actually behave.
- Building workplace cultures where people can tell the truth.
- Why high-achieving women are rethinking work, success, and ambition.
- Burnout, identity, and life after the role that once defined you.
- Midlife transitions, reinvention, and becoming.
- Black women's leadership, wellbeing, and the cost of always being strong.
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