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People do too.</p><a class="inline-block px-6 py-3 rounded-md font-semibold text-sm transition-opacity hover:opacity-90" style="background:hsl(var(--primary));color:hsl(var(--primary-foreground))" href="/connect" data-discover="true">Inquire About Booking</a></div></div></section><section class="bg-background py-10 px-6 border-t border-border"><div class="max-w-3xl mx-auto"><p class="text-muted-foreground leading-relaxed" style="white-space:pre-line;font-size:1rem">Whether it's an organization moving through cultural change or a person moving through a life transition, the hardest part is never the start or the finish. It's the space in between, where the old way no longer applies and the new one hasn't yet taken hold. Drawing on her doctoral research and 25 years of leading change from the inside, Dr. Nicole Yeldell Butts speaks to corporate and women's audiences about exactly this moment, giving them language for a place they've been but couldn't previously name, and a way to move through it.</p></div></section><section class="bg-secondary py-10 px-6 border-t border-border"><div class="max-w-4xl mx-auto text-center"><p class="text-xs font-semibold tracking-widest uppercase mb-8" style="color:hsl(var(--primary))">Where Nicole Has Spoken</p><ul class="flex flex-wrap justify-center gap-x-8 gap-y-3"><li class="text-sm text-muted-foreground font-medium">SHRM Annual Conference & Expo</li><li class="text-sm text-muted-foreground font-medium">
31American Council on Education (ACE) Women's Conference</li><li class="text-sm text-muted-foreground font-medium">International CHRIE</li><li class="text-sm text-muted-foreground font-medium">The Claremont Colleges</li><li class="text-sm text-muted-foreground font-medium">California State University</li><li class="text-sm text-muted-foreground font-medium">The Ebell of Los Angeles</li></ul></div></section><section class="bg-secondary py-10 px-6 border-t border-border"><div class="max-w-4xl mx-auto"><p class="text-xs font-semibold tracking-widest uppercase mb-8 text-center" style="color:hsl(var(--primary))">Two Tracks. One Idea.</p><div class="grid grid-cols-1 md:grid-cols-2 gap-0 border border-border rounded-xl overflow-hidden"><div class="p-8 flex flex-col gap-4 md:border-r border-b md:border-b-0 border-border"><p class="font-bold text-foreground leading-snug" style="white-space:pre-line;font-family:var(--font-heading);font-size:1.125rem">Culture & Change Leadership</p><p class="text-sm text-muted-foreground leading-relaxed" style="white-space:pre-line">For corporations, conferences, and professional associations navigating cultural or strategic change. How systems and the people leading them move through change without stalling or fracturing.</p><a class="text-sm font-semibold underline underline-offset-4 transition-opacity hover:opacity-70 mt-1" style="color:hsl(var(--primary))" href="/speaking-org" data-discover="true">View Keynotes â</a></div><div class="p-8 flex flex-col gap-4 "><p class="font-bold text-foreground leading-snug" style="white-space:pre-line;font-family:var(--font-heading);font-size:1.125rem">Women, Identity & Transformation</p><p class="text-sm text-muted-foreground leading-relaxed" style="white-space:pre-line">For women's conferences, associations, and corporate women's events. How a woman moves through an identity threshold (job, relationship, self) without losing herself in the uncertainty.</p><a class="text-sm font-semibold underline underline-offset-4 transition-opacity hover:opacity-70 mt-1" style="color:hsl(var(--primary))" href="/speaking-women" data-discover="true">View Keynotes â</a></div></div></div></section><section class="bg-background py-10 px-6 border-t border-border"><div class="max-w-3xl mx-auto"><h2 class="font-bold text-foreground mb-4 leading-snug" style="white-space:pre-line;font-family:var(--font-heading);font-size:clamp(1.1rem, 2vw, 1.375rem)">What Makes Nicole's Keynotes Different</h2><p class="text-muted-foreground leading-relaxed" style="white-space:pre-line;font-size:1rem">Nicole doesn't arrive with generic inspiration. She arrives with SHIFT, a framework built from research on how organizations and people actually move through change. And she delivers it with a presence audiences trust within minutes. The result is a room willing to tell the truth about what's ending, and ready to move toward what's next.</p></div></section><section class="py-10 px-6 bg-secondary border-t border-border"><div class="max-w-2xl mx-auto flex flex-col items-center gap-8"><p class="text-xs font-semibold tracking-widest uppercase self-start" style="color:hsl(var(--primary))">What Event Organizers Say</p><figure class="w-full"><blockquote><p class="text-foreground leading-relaxed italic mb-3" style="font-size:1.0625rem">"<!-- -->Nicole rocked the house at our conference! ... I so appreciate her ability to get important and difficult conversations going and how she focused the group on the real issues at hand. Nicole did her homework in advance and really connected with the audience.<!-- -->"</p></blockquote><figcaption class="text-sm text-muted-foreground font-medium">Lea R. Dopson, Ed.D.<!-- -->, <!-- -->President, International CHRIE</figcaption></figure><img src="/airo-assets/images/speaking/nicole-amplify-influence" alt="Dr. Nicole Butts speaking at the Amplify Your Influence event" class="rounded-lg object-cover w-full max-w-lg" style="height:360px" loading="lazy" width="512" height="360"/><figure class="w-full"><blockquote><p class="text-foreground leading-relaxed italic mb-3" style="font-size:1.0625rem">"<!-- -->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!<!-- -->"</p></blockquote><figcaption class="text-sm text-muted-foreground font-medium">Dr. Reginald S. Blaylock<!-- -->, <!-- -->Vice President, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona</figcaption></figure></div></section><section class="bg-background py-10 px-6 border-t border-border"><div class="max-w-3xl mx-auto"><p class="text-xs font-semibold tracking-widest uppercase mb-4" style="white-space:pre-line;color:hsl(var(--primary))">Audiences Walk Away With</p><ul class="flex flex-col gap-3"><li class="flex items-start gap-3 text-sm text-foreground leading-relaxed"><span class="mt-1.5 shrink-0 w-1.5 h-1.5 rounded-full" style="background:hsl(var(--primary))"></span><span style="white-space:pre-line">A shared language for the threshold that teams and individuals keep using long after the event.</span></li><li class="flex items-start gap-3 text-sm text-foreground leading-relaxed"><span class="mt-1.5 shrink-0 w-1.5 h-1.5 rounded-full" style="background:hsl(var(--primary))"></span><span style="white-space:pre-line">A way to recognize whether they're freezing or dissolving, and what to do instead.</span></li><li class="flex items-start gap-3 text-sm text-foreground leading-relaxed"><span class="mt-1.5 shrink-0 w-1.5 h-1.5 rounded-full" style="background:hsl(var(--primary))"></span><span style="white-space:pre-line">The SHIFT framework, a practical way to move through change with intention.</span></li><li class="flex items-start gap-3 text-sm text-foreground leading-relaxed"><span class="mt-1.5 shrink-0 w-1.5 h-1.5 rounded-full" style="background:hsl(var(--primary))"></span><span style="white-space:pre-line">Permission to tell the truth about what's ending, which is where real change begins.</span></li></ul></div></section><section class="bg-secondary py-10 px-6 border-t border-border"><div class="max-w-3xl mx-auto"><p class="text-xs font-semibold tracking-widest uppercase mb-2" style="white-space:pre-line;color:hsl(var(--primary))">Keynote Formats</p><p class="text-sm text-muted-foreground leading-relaxed mb-6" style="white-space:pre-line">Opening, closing, and featured keynotes. 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