Meet The Founder

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Nicola McFadden

MSc, PMP®,ITIL®, CSSBB, CSCP

Nicola is a bestselling author, a highly-rated international transformation consultant, business strategist, executive coach, visionary, servant leader, and doctoral scholar at Liberty University.

She is a multi-certified specialist and well respected for her thought leadership, as she consistently inspires others with innovative insights and creative solutions to facilitate paradigm shifts. Everyone who has gotten to experience Nicola's passion, strategic execution, emotional intelligence, brilliance, and talent first-hand can validate her exceptional ability to deliver objectives, lead by example as an effective leader, and motivate and challenge her team to grow personally and professionally.

Nicola has demonstrated the wisdom, knowledge, and expertise to conceptualize, plan, implement, and lead global enterprise-wide digital and business transformation initiatives enabled by modern technology. She has successfully transformed many executives, entrepreneurs, leaders, teams, and individuals into excellence.

She influences industry best practices in project management (PMP), business transformation (Lean Six Sigma, CMMI, ISO), change management (ACMP, ADKAR), IT Service Management (ITIL), It Governance (COBIT), and Supply Chain Management (CSCP).

Experiences with various enterprises and entrepreneurs, to mention a few:
Air Canada; Empowered Services; Marvin Phillips Creations LLC; Oregon School of Supernatural Ministry (OSSM); Ignite Nations; Knight, Junor & Samuels; CAC 2000 Limited; Loving Life Coaching & Consultants; HC4; DH Recycle; BC Government; Walmart; City of Toronto; The Woodbridge Group.

 TRANSFORMING BUSINESS

Nicola has over 20 years of unconventional experience as a Project Management and Change Management Specialist, successfully demonstrating her well-developed technological, financial, political and business acumen. She possesses the unique capabilities to provide innovative solutions from concept to market, then to end-of-life. She often leads in complex, multi-product, omni-channel, multi-vendor business environments where local decisions often have global implications. 

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As an International Business Strategist and Transformation Consultant, Nicola is well-known for the people she works with for solving ambiguous, complex supply chain networks, digitization, and challenging business problems. Nicola has transformed global organizations, leaders, teams, and processes using industry best practices in Lean Six Sigma, Product Management, Lean Portfolio Management, Business Agility, and Organizational Change Management, enabled by technology, innovation, information, strategy, and digitization.

Nicola is an expert at planning and executing mission-critical business transformation initiatives distinguished by triple-digit revenue gains, cost savings, cost avoidance, and income generation to yield profitability objectives despite facing a rapidly fluctuating global economy.

Nicola is an attentive leader with a solid track record of delivering results that directly impact the organization’s bottom line, market share, brand value, products/services, quality, operational efficiency, customer experience, and employee engagement. She helps organizations exceed performance, productivity, profitability, and sustainability targets.

 


TRANSFORMING LEADERS

Nicola is an experienced and authentic Servant Leader, Transformation Change Agent, and Problem Solver. She has exceptional personal skills, emotional intelligence, and business acumen in diversified cultures, multiple industries, and organizational complexities. Nicola inspires and influences individuals, leaders, teams, and organizations to accept and grow through significant transformative changes. She defines and delivers Change Management at the organizational, departmental, and individual levels, overcoming the barriers to change, managing the adoption, and accelerating the transformation.

Nicola challenges the status quo to identify and implement creative and innovative solutions to address business, relationship, leadership, cultural, and social concerns. She brings energy, passion, hope, inspiration, and enthusiasm to every challenge with a focus on successful, timely, and focused execution, delivering high-quality, innovative “right-fit” solutions to yield satisfaction, profitability, and exponential growth.

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Nicola delivers the Transforming Leadership pillar through mentoring, coaching, facilitation, and training, transforming the leaders, managers, teams, and the business to be future-ready in Mastermind Cafe, an executive development and collaboration platform. She supports the business client, developing their leadership, culture, talent, and organizational capabilities. She equips servant leaders to love, serve, and lead magnificently, inspire followers to experience fulfilled and purposeful lives, serve communities, and transform their businesses into world-class organizations. 

Nicola engages and encourages each client to uncover their purpose and identity.

She equips, educates, nurtures, and develops servant leadership skills for improved performance and success to attain business excellence. Nicola empowers, energizes, and elevates others to pioneer innovative opportunities.

She positively impacts society with the intentional focus of leaving a mark behind, a social impact that outlasts and outlives us, thereby transforming life, leaders, and business!

 


TRANSFORMING LIFE

An international bestselling author, an experienced Transformation Consultant, Coach, and Servant Leader, Nicola actively demonstrates Bass three moral aspects of transformation leadership:

  • Her moral character, virtue, and integrity as a Christian.

  • Her founded company, Nikimac, its vision, the services, and programs are grounded in her ethical value, faith, philosophy, and belief (which are either rejected or embraced by followers).

  • Her intentional goal is to invest her time and resources in empowering and transforming lives - people, organizational cultures, and communities through love, empathy, compassion, spiritual empowerment, inspirational motivation, servant leadership, and digital technology.

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Nicola passionately pursues her purpose to make others feel better, live better, and do better, thereby inspiring them to overcome setbacks and maximize their potential and capacity. She leads with empathy, compassion, and kindness, having faith in God as the foundation of her purpose and legacy.

Nicola is seeking to bring her organizational transformation and change management capabilities into people's lives by mentoring, coaching, and empowering the individual to wellness (mind, soul, body), maximizing individual potential, building their capacity, and challenging their performance by enabling them through paradigm shifts, business evolution, life transitions, social challenges, or other significant changes and setbacks.

Nicola contributes her expertise and passion to the non-profit subsidiary, 'U Power UP,' as the Black Empowerment and Social Responsibility pillar. These services are provided in the community through the Chayah Club. Individual Change Management, Women Empowerment, Men Millionaire Mindset Club, Youth Entrepreneurship, Life Coaching and Mentoring, Training and Personal Development, Daily Devotion, Inspirational Blogs, Book Publishing, Branding, Business Solutions, Speaking Engagements, Events, and Social Enterprise solutions are all available. She also collaborates with other holistic health specialists, such as HC4, to help people with their financial, physical, occupational, mental, emotional, social, environmental, and spiritual wellness.