THE CEO SHIFT
For founders who are ready to become the CEO their business now requires
A six-month leadership accelerator for women who are building teams, scaling companies, and want to lead with clarity, confidence and capacity.
MOST BUSINESS COACHES TEACH YOU HOW TO BUILD A BUSINESS. VERY FEW PREPARE YOU FOR WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
Hiring.
Leading.
Delegating.
Building systems.
Navigating difficult conversations.
Trusting other people with your vision.
Growing a business through people instead of personal capacity.
This is where businesses either plateau or skyrocket.
After helping scale more than 100 businesses from six figures to multi-seven figures and not just in sales but achieving it through creating sustaible, long term deep rooted teams.
I realized I'd unintentionally stopped talking about one of the deepest parts of my work...
TEAM DEVELOPMENT
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And a lightbulb went off. Not only does leading a team require a new level of self-leadership, it also requires new nervous system thresholds to be mastered.
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So instead of drowning in thoughts like 'why don't they care as much as I do?' or 'when are they going to get it?' - we shift those pinch points into your leadership superpower.
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Yes, superpower. All while we develop your nervous system to hold the EMPIRE you are building.
EXPERIENCE
Reduced employee turnover from 22% to 9% by developing stronger leaders, improving hiring practices, and creating a healthier team culture.
Grew organizations from 18 to 85+ team members while building the systems and leadership infrastructure to support sustainable growth.
From 15K to 45K months in less than 6 months
Built multi-million-dollar operational infrastructure designed to support long-term organizational growth.
Developed recruitment systems that maintained a strong hiring pipeline instead of hiring reactively.
Created strengths-based leadership and coaching cultures that increased engagement, ownership, and retention.
Built a launch recruiting campaigns that are still utilized today
Built infastructure that allowed founders to take more time away - goobye hustle
The container opens September 1st, 2026.
Our first call will be on Thursday Sept 10th at 11am.
Your initial intake call will happen before we begin and
will be scheduled upon acceptance into the incubator.
THIS ISN'T JUST ABOUT BUILDING A BUSINESS
Inside CEO Shift, we don't just build your business.
We build the leader who can hold it, lead it, and scale it.
This is where:
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Leadership meets nervous system capacity.
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Strategy meets embodiment.
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Sustainable growth replaces constant hustle.
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Familiarity gives way to courageous leadership.
Together, we'll develop:
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Your leadership identity.
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Your decision-making.
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Your capacity to navigate uncertainty.
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The systems and structures that allow your business to grow beyond you.
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A team that supports your vision and helps bring it to life.
Scaling isn't simply about hiring more people.
It's about becoming the kind of leader who creates an environment where people, performance, and purpose can thrive together.
THE STRUCTURE:
We meet 1x week for 6 months - this is to allow velocity in building out your leadership in real time. A full call schedule will be sent out upon acceptance into the incubator.
All calls will take place Thursdays at 11am PST.
Our kick off call will happen September 10th.
WEEK 1:
Masterclass Session
These sessions will be designed to move through the structured strategies and embodiment practices of how to actually scale through a team; Identity, Recruiting & Hiring, Onboarding & Performance Management, People Ops.
The sessions will focus on closing the knowledge gaps on how what you need to have in place in terms of systems and tracking.
WEEK 2:
Group Mastermind Session
We come together as a group to openly discuss the tension issues that we are experiencing in real time. Not only will Nicola coach but you have a team of advisors that are in the same level of biz building.
We will workshop real life examples and breakthrough nervous system edges together.
WEEK 3:
1 - 90min Private Session.
There will be no group session this week but each member will have a private 1:1. This is where we will dive deep on your business, your personal bottleneck areas and where your nervous system edges are showing up in your business.
Each session will be blended based on where you are at in that moment - an intersection of somatics and strategy based on Nicola's guidance.
WEEK 4:
2nd Group Mastermind Session
We come together again as a group to openly discuss the tension issues that we are experiencing in real time. Not only will Nicola coach but you have a team of advisors that are in the same level of biz building.
We will workshop real life examples and breakthrough nervous system edges together.
TELEGRAM CHANNEL:
Do not underestimate the power of a Telegram channel. We will dive into day to day ops as they are happening to support, coach and offer guidance as you are coming up against your edges (aka your limiting beliefs, nervous system spirals and celebrate your WINS).
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This is where this community will flourish.
Note: This is not your average business mastermind. The work we do together will bring to light the areas that you are not living in your fullest potential and ask to be tended to. We are here to hold ourselves responsible to our potential and we are here to show up fully in the truth of who we are. The energetics of this often means we move quickly while surrendering to let go of the pieces of ourselves that no longer serve us. What we will move through together can feel activating but on the other side, we will create true liberation and freedom
$1000/month for 6 months.
THE INVESTMENT
CEO Shift is intentionally designed as a six-month experience because leadership isn't built in a weekend.
It develops through consistent practice, courageous conversations, real-time decision-making, and having the right people beside you as your business grows.
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More than anything, you're investing in becoming the leader your business now requires.
The way you hire.
The way you delegate.
The way you make decisions.
The way you lead your team.
The way you build a business that no longer depends on you doing everything yourself.
If you're looking for another mastermind, this probably isn't the right room.
If you're ready to become the CEO your business is asking you to be, I'd love to have a conversation.
WHY SOMATICS?
If you've never experienced somatic work before, you're in for something truly extraordinary.
Somatics is the practice of working with the wisdom of the body, not just the thoughts of the mind (the oh so masculine part of us).
Every experience you've had has shaped the way your nervous system responds to the world around you. Over time, those experiences create familiar patterns in how you think, lead, communicate, make decisions, trust others, and respond to uncertainty.
As entrepreneurs, we're constantly stepping into the unknown:
- Hiring your first team member
- Raising your prices
- Delegating responsibility
- Having difficult conversations
- Leading people
- Making riskier decisions
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While your mind may know these are the next logical steps, your nervous system may interpret them as unfamiliar and begin signaling caution through fear, tension, procrastination, perfectionism, overworking, or the need to stay in control.
This is where somatic work becomes transformational.
Rather than trying to think your way through fear, we learn to work with the body to understand what it's communicating, increase your capacity to navigate uncertainty, and create new patterns that support the leader you're becoming.
Inside CEO Shift, we don't separate strategy from embodiment.
We weave them together.
Because strategy tells you what to do.
Your nervous system determines how consistently you'll be able to do it.
When leadership, strategy, and embodiment work together, you don't just build a bigger business. You become the kind of leader who can sustainably hold everything you've been working toward.
For me, this is some of the most meaningful work I do. It creates a relationship with yourself that extends far beyond business and becomes a foundation for how you lead your team, your family, and your life.
MEET NICOLA
I'm a leadership mentor, author, somatic coach, founder, and lifelong student of what it truly takes to build businesses that thrive.
For more than 20 years, I've been immersed in entrepreneurship, leadership, people development, and organizational growth. I've helped scale +100 businesses from six figures to multi-six, seven, and multi-seven figures, not simply through strategy,
but by developing the people who lead them.
Over the years, I've seen the same pattern repeat itself. Founders who know how to build successful businesses often reach a point where their greatest challenge is no longer marketing, sales, or strategy.
It's becoming the leader their business now requires.
Hiring. Delegating. Building trust. Creating culture. Making difficult decisions. Leading people without losing themselves.
This is where my work lives.
Alongside two decades of building teams and organizations, I've spent years studying and practicing somatic coaching, identity transformation, and human behavior.
What I've discovered is that sustainable growth happens when strategic leadership and inner transformation evolve together.
The CEO Shift is the intersection of those two worlds.
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I don't teach from theory alone. I teach from two decades of building businesses, developing leaders, and walking this path myself.
My greatest passion isn't just helping women build bigger businesses.
It's helping them become the kind of leaders who create businesses, teams, and lives where thriving becomes sustainable.
