TEDx Speaker | Keynote Speaker | Founder | Podcaster
Nicole Donnelly creates an experience that will ignite reflection in your audience long after the event ends. Through powerful storytelling, an evidence based, validated framework, and the kind of stage presence that makes people lean in, she makes people feel their burnout was never a personal failure and then gives them a way out.
TEDX Speaker | Keynote Speaker | Founder | Podcaster
Nicole Donnelly creates an experience that will ignite reflection in your audience long after the event ends. Through fierce storytelling, an evidence based, validated framework, and the kind of stage presence that makes people lean in, she makes people feel their burnout was never a personal failure and then gives them a way out.
FEATURED TALK
The Case for Doing Nothing
What if doing nothing is the boldest move you’ll make? This talk is about what becomes possible when we’re brave enough to stop — and why the pause so many of us fear is actually where true leadership begins.
MEET NICOLE
Nicole Donnelly is a speaker, founder, writer and fierce advocate for helping people reconnect with their voice and lead with moxie.
She is the Founder of Hello Moxie — a leadership development company, platform and community. Through mentorship programs, workshops, and community events, Nicole is tapping into the collective power of connection and community to create systemic change and help people lead at every level.
With over 20 years as a marketer, account manager, and entrepreneur leading teams through change, she knows what it means to work hard, lead boldly, and navigate the relentless pressure to perform, even when staying strong comes at the cost of yourself. Her keynotes are equal parts honest, substantive, heart-forward, and unforgettable.
TEDx Speaker · 2026
Founder, Hello Moxie
HEROIC Public Speaking Grad
Host, Hello Moxie Podcast
Andrei Radu
CEO @ GPeC
Signature talks
Keynote
In a season marked by economic uncertainty, AI disruption, and burnout, leadership demands more than strategy and hustle, it requires the courage to be still.
This isn’t just a personal challenge; it’s a cultural one. The constant pressure to prove, perform, and move faster is eroding clarity, creativity, and confidence at every level. And the cost is our humanity — the disconnection, exhaustion, and stagnation we feel individually and collectively.
In this provocative and deeply human keynote, Nicole shares The Moxie Method—a five-stage, evidence-backed framework designed to help leaders reconnect with their instincts, and create work that’s daring, transformative and more human.
In this session, you’ll learn:
Ideal for: Conference keynote, leadership development events and workshops
Keynote
You’ve invested in leadership development. You’ve run the workshops, checked the boxes, promoted the high performers. And yet your women are still burning out. Still shrinking in rooms they helped build. Still doing the work without getting the credit, the visibility, or the voice.
But the problem isn’t effort. It’s disconnection.
In this keynote, Nicole makes the case that burnout is not a productivity problem. It’s a trauma response. And the fastest way to bring out the women in your organization isn’t another skills training. It’s helping them reconnect with the intelligence that already lives in their bodies.
Drawing on her TEDx Cincinnati talk, her own journey from workaholic founder to embodied leader, and the third party validated results from her first Moxie Method cohort, Nicole delivers a talk that’s equal parts neuroscience, personal story, and practical framework.
Audiences leave with:
This session is for women who are tired of being told to lean in harder. And for the organizations smart enough to finally ask a different question.
Ideal for: Women in STEM conferences, Corporate leadership teams
Yamini Naidu
Certified Speaking Professional
What people say
Nicole Teriaca
Director of Digital Strategy, Rave Digital
THE PODCAST
Hello Moxie features the real-life moxie moments of modern trailblazers and the women who inspire them. The show invites listeners to reflect on their own legacy and inspire them to act with confidence and courage.
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Nicole speaks at conferences, leadership summits, company events, and tech gatherings across the U.S. and Europe. Hold your date now — no commitment required.
