Natalie Nixon

Natalie Nixon can help you get unstuck and unlock the work that you were born to do.

She’s like a personal trainer for your creativity muscle!

Brava, Brava, Natalie! I just loved your word choices, gestures, and accessible explanations. Similarly, your slides were top notch and reflected your topic!

Natalie spoke to a select group of our most valued business partners and employees at our annual meeting, and she hit an absolute home run. Centered on change and what is required in a fast paced, high growth environment to adapt and thrive, Natalie was on point and impactful. As a speaker, Natalie is warm, engaging, thoughtful and funny all while having absolute command of the audience based on her background and experience in both academia and the corporate world. Virtually every attendee declared Natalie “the best hour of the entire conference!

Working with Dr. Natalie Nixon has been a true pleasure! The virtual keynote was insightful, engaging and inspirational, and the topic – “What to do when there is no playbook” – so well aligned with this moment in time.  We particularly appreciated Dr. Nixon’s collaborative approach and interest in understanding our company and aligning with our global audience.

Natalie Nixon brought experience and insights to help our team focus on the incredible possibility that wonder and rigor can bring to our organization. Our entire team was energized by the session and continue to infuse her teachings in our day to day culture.

Natalie is an engaging and insightful leader in the design thinking space.  She curated a weeks-long idea sprint for a group of attorneys and non-attorneys representing a cross-section of our firm.  Everyone involved was in complete agreement – both the process and its outcomes were transformative on an individual and institutional level.  None of this would have been possible without Natalie’s stewardship.

Natalie’s workshop gave our team an energetic and creative boost as we navigate these messy moments in time. Ninety minutes flew by! People were deeply engaged, curious and imaginative. It accomplished our near term goal and sets us up perfectly for reimagining possible futures. Department leads are already asking for more as they evaluate their specific plans and ensure that we remain a “Future Ready” company.

Recently, Steelcase and Corporate Interiors had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Nixon on a webinar where she discussed the key themes from the research she conducted for her upcoming book, The Creativity Leap. Not only was Dr. Nixon able to engage over 40 people for an hour but she was able to relate to the audience with great storytelling and images that made us all feel as if we too had the ability to be super-creatives. She’s obviously passionate about her research and what drives human behavior and inspired us all to deeply understand ourselves and how we can all thrive in times of uncertainty and change.

Natalie worked closely with us to pilot design thinking training for our lawyers. The lawyers were out of their comfort zone and Natalie helped them overcome their natural skepticism and coached our teams through the growth process. The result was 4 inspiring ideas that are in various phases of implementation at our firm and we could not be more pleased.

Natalie’s talk with our team expanded the aperture of how creativity can be amplified and what we can do to enhance the creativity we foster with our professional staff. She provided tangible action steps Ansira can take to ensure we are bringing the best and most creative ideas to serve our clients.

As Natalie describes in her important new book, creativity requires holding both wonder and rigor in productive tension. She shared this and other actionable wisdom recently with our team at SYPartners. Natalie dismantles the idea that creativity is the domain of the few, and shows how everyone can take the creativity leap.

Natalie brought a level of energy, engagement and broad thinking to the PTM board retreat. Her capacity to inspire people to embrace their inner wonder and to push to new approaches and ways of thinking was just what our board needed. As we get comfortable with new levels of uncertainty post-COVID, our job is to also break perceptions of how we operated pre-pandemic while aligning with mission, and exploring new experiences for our visitors and staff. With Natalie’s guidance we have identified ways to be a children’s museum that is flexible and can evolve through both wonder and rigor.

Natalie’s keynote on creativity was more than a leap, rather she took our learners on a journey into the depths of creativity, unearthing captivating examples across a number of industries.  Her engaging, thoughtful, and witty delivery left audiences with a desire to put in the work to unleash their own creativity.

Natalie’s Creative Leap Strategy helped our audience of marketers see the importance of creativity of all stripes, and how improvisation, inquiry and intuition will guide their businesses and work forward. Natalie is a skilled storyteller and presenter, and great partner in the process. Thank you, Natalie!

Natalie Nixon brings a unique blend of scientific, evidence-based insight with practical, put-into-use-today advice on leadership and the future of work. Our audience highly rated her keynote which kicked off our 27th annual venture capital conference with energy and a well-woven story of creativity, design and innovation as applied to the 4th industrial revolution. I highly recommend Natalie as a keynote speaker for an audience of any size. She will WOW!

Natalie is a wonderful scholar-practitioner; she is able to connect the dots between theory and practice. Her remarkable, diverse background allows her to be a unique contributor to the new global, interdisciplinary world that is rapidly emerging.

Natalie’s presentation on creativity was engaging, inspiring, and practical! Her framework and practical suggestions for creativity were incredibly valuable.

Natalie facilitated a learning session with the Affirm legal and compliance teams. She was stimulating and engaging. The entire team found her concepts easy to implement. Rave reviews!

Natalie's message for the leaders of Trane Technologies Commercial business could not have come at a better time. Her message about the power of creativity to drive innovation, deeply connected with our leadership team. Natalie brings a data-based approach combined with rich storytelling that creates a compelling case for change for leaders who are committed to unleashing the full potential of their teams and unlocking growth.