Creating Leaders For Indigenous Futures.

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What I Offer

  • Let’s reimagine and reshape the systems that impact Native communities. Book a discovery session with me.

  • Personalized and professional development to enhance skills and effectiveness as a leader: through my one-on-one leadership coaching will provide:

    Guidance, feedback, and support to help leaders identify their strengths and weaknesses, set goals, and build support for leaders to improve their leadership abilities.

    Leadership Areas

    · Communication

    · Decision- Making

    · Team Building

    · Emotional Intelligence

  • I speak on Native American Maternal Health issues, Indigenous midwifery, maternity care deserts, innovation in maternal health, starting a Native American maternal and reproductive health clinic, and home birth practices.

  • In Native program development and policy reform, the written word is a formidable tool for driving progress. Explore my passion for writing, as I use it to fuel initiatives, advocate for justice, and reshape the future.

  • Through Changing Woman Initiative, we champion maternal health, celebrate our culture, and serve rural communities with care, respect, and reverence for tradition.

    · Indigenous Midwifery

    · Native American Maternal Health

    · Reproductive Justice

    · Health Policy

Investing in Indigenous Futures

By investing in maternal health, personal leadership development, and Indigenous policy reform, we are sowing the seeds for a more equitable and prosperous future for all.

Let’s Rewrite the Script Together.

Let’s build the roadmap to a brighter, more inclusive world where Indigenous cultures thrive and policies evolve.

“As a grassroots community member who found herself a Founder and Executive Director with minimal training or support, I can not emphasize enough how much I benefited from working with Nicolle.”

— Annita Lucchesi, Founder, ED, Sovereign Bodies Institute-

Who is Nicolle?

I’m a Diné (Navajo) Nurse-Midwife, maternal‑health strategist, and policy advocate who has spent the past  18  years building Native‑led systems of care. My work braids ancestral birthing wisdom with evidence‑based medicine to untangle the structural inequities our families face. As founder of Changing Woman Initiative—the first Native‑women‑led, culturally rooted maternal‑health nonprofit in the United States—I helped raise more than $2 million to protect reproductive sovereignty and restore birth as ceremony for Indigenous communities.

Today, I lead Transcending  Strategies  LLC, a Native‑women‑owned consulting firm that guides tribes, nonprofits, and health systems in designing community‑defined birth centers and governance models. From the Senate floor—where I serve as a Robert  Wood  Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow—to United Nations hearings on Indigenous midwifery, I translate frontline experience into policy that advances sovereignty, safety, and joy in childbirth.

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