Hello
I’m a project management leader, author, and business strategist focused on one mission: fixing the broken systems that drain productivity and exhaust your team.
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For years, I’ve watched companies waste time and talent on bloated processes, chaotic workloads, and leadership models that mistake micromanagement for strategy. I’ve made it my business to change that - building scalable structures, aligning KPIs with real business outcomes, and proving that you can run a thriving company without burning out your people.
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My first book, A Project Manager’s Revolution, challenged traditional project leadership and gave leaders a practical, values-aligned framework to build from. My latest, Strategic Workload: Building Structure for Productivity, goes even deeper - teaching you how to design roles, reshape workloads, and create systems that scale sustainably.
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Whether you're an executive, a team lead, or someone tired of carrying invisible labor, I’m here to help you build a business that works - because your people do.
About Me
I fix the structural chaos that burns teams out. I work at the intersection of strategy, leadership, and project management to cut noise, clean up roles, and build organizations where productivity and people can both win.
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Over the last decade-plus, I’ve led multi-year change initiatives, stood up PM practices, and rebuilt ops for teams from fast-growing startups to established enterprises. I’ve seen what happens when structure is missing and leaders lean on heroics: duplicated work, quiet burnout, and slow-motion failure. The antidote isn’t more status meetings—it’s clarity, smart workload design, and leadership systems that don’t rely on exhaustion to function.
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My most important success: creating the Anchor Point Method - a practical, human-centered framework that helps companies redesign roles, rebalance workload, and protect their people while improving performance. I’ve used it to untangle scope, stop “mystery work,” and give leaders a clean, executable plan. Earlier in my career I also built a project cost system from scratch at Velocity, giving leadership visibility they’d never had—and decisions got better overnight.
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I’m the author of A Project Manager’s Revolution, a no-nonsense guide for building high-performing teams without bureaucracy, and Strategic Workload: Building Structure for Productivity, which turns the Anchor Point approach into a clear playbook for role design, capacity, and sustainable scale.
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If you’re ready to lead with purpose and build systems people don’t have to recover from, let’s talk.
Elizabeth Young, CA
“Nicki came in at the 11th hour of our deadline, and like a fairy godmother turned our pumpkin into a carriage"
Michael James, NY
"It's rare to find someone as reliable and cheerful as Nicki is, and I feel incredibly fortunate to work with her. Nicki's organizational skills have not only improved our efficiency but have also made the culture brighter."
Shannon Driver, MI
“Nicki is the bodyguard everyone needs in their life. She stood her ground on our engagement by protecting the teams capacity and gracefully deflecting scope creep without damaging the client relationship."
A Project Manager's Revolution
Project management isn’t just about timelines and task tracking—it’s about leading real change. Too many organizations are drowning in inefficiency, pointless meetings, and rigid processes that kill productivity. It doesn’t have to be this way. In A Project Manager’s Revolution, I challenge outdated project management thinking and introduce a bold, practical approach that puts people, productivity, and profit on equal footing. This book isn’t another dry manual—it’s a call to action for leaders who are ready to cut the chaos, fix broken systems, and create high-performing teams that thrive.
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315-651-9021