YOU'RE BRILLIANT. SO WHY DO YOU FEEL LIKE A ZOMBIE DROWNING IN THE MISSION YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO LOVE LEADING?
YOU DIDN'T SIGN UP FOR THIS.
You got into this work to change the world. To build power. To create justice.
But somewhere along the way, leading a mission-driven organization started feeling like survival.
You're working 60-hour weeks, skipping meals, checking email at midnight. Your board is either absent or overbearing. Your staff is burned out and you're trying to hold it together for everyone. You're doing the job of three people. And you can't remember the last time you took a real day off.
Grrrl, you know you're underpaid. You know you're overworked and it's NOT sustainable.
But you don't know how to change it without feeling like you're letting everyone down.
Well, Boss In Total Control of Herself . . . HERE'S WHAT I KNOW FOR REAL:
You're not failing at leadership. The model is failing you. Nobody taught you how to power-map AND lead with financial abundance AND enforce boundaries AND actually rest without guilt AND reclaim your pleasure!
Nobody gave you a roadmap that works for women of color, working moms, and marginalized leaders building movements all in one thoroughly transformative year-long program.
Not until I built this for you!
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WHAT THIS IS:
Superhuman Leadership & People Power isn't another workshop or retreat you'll forget in a few weeks or months.
This is year-long transformation.
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26 bi-weekly 90-min coaching and work sessions.
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Weekly Power Hours with a small, intimate cohort.
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Two spring and fall 2.5-day luxury waterfront retreats where you actually rest.
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And a complete framework that covers everything they didn't teach you
in organizing school, somatic training, management or grad school.
Through my rigorous program, you'll learn to...
Think like an organizer
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Conduct Power Mapping for winning strategies.
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Move decision-makers with authenticity.
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Build coalitions and strong teams with simple tools and practices.
Act like an executive
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Create and direct Emergent Living Plans that will earn you legendary respect.
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Delegate to your team with clarity, alignment, trust and accountability.
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Build simple systems that scale resources and build wealth
without losing your values.
Rest like a human
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Commit to a morning ritual you'll actually keep.
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Practice pleasure as soul restoration and active resistance.
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Set and enforce boundaries and self-care practices; lose the savior and martyr-like behavior.
WHO THIS IS FOR
This one-of-a-kind, transformative program is for you if:
✅ You're a woman of color (Black, Indigenous, Latina, Asian American, or from another marginalized identity)
✅ You're an Executive Director, Deputy Director, or Director at a nonprofit, union, foundation, or mission-
driven organization or small business.
✅ Your organization's budget is $500K or higher.
✅ You're underpaid, overworked, and tired of it!
✅ You're excellent at organizing but struggle with "executive" skills like budgets, boards, and boundaries.
✅ You know you need to rest but struggle to do it without feeling guilty.
✅ You're ready to invest in yourself—even if it feels uncomfortable.
This program is NOT for you if:
❌ You want a quick fix (this is deep, year-long work towards embodied leadership)
❌ You're not ready to look at your money story, mental blocks, and rest practices (we go there!)
❌ You want corporate leadership coaching (this is for mission-driven leaders building democracy, economic,
racial, educational, and environmental justice)
❌ You're not willing to be vulnerable in a small cohort (we build trust by being and getting really real)
HOW IT WORKS
Here's what you actually get in Superhuman Leadership & People Power:
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26 Bi-Weekly Coaching Sessions with Nikki M.G. The Power Expert (90 minutes each) Not the rushed 15-to-60-minute sessions other coaches offer. Deep, customized work and real dedicated time to work on YOUR challenges!
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Weekly Power Hour (60 minutes) Small-group coaching with 5-6 other women leaders. Hot-seat coaching, accountability, real talk, and the peer support you've been missing.
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TWO 2.5-Day Luxury Waterfront Retreats (Fall, Mid-Atlantic Region; Spring New England region) Sound bathing. Sailing. Gourmet Meals. Mastermind sessions. Unstructured time and rest. All costs included except travel. You'll leave with your inner-fire and vision powered up!
Living Deliverables We'll Build & You'll Implement:
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Your R.E.C.L.A.I.M. daily ritual (Read Daily, Eat Healthy, Center Often, Love & Affirmations, Intentional Movement, Mindful Journaling).
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Your Ideal Week. Boundaries that liberate you from the grind and all the extra unnecessary meetings!
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Your Power Map and Living Plan. For your policy, development, or electoral campaign.
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Your Power Toolbox. Winning proposals, grant templates, simple management tools, effective communications templates you'll actually use.
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Your Joy Calendar. Because pleasure is revolutionary for people from historically oppressed backgrounds.
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Your Money Story Rewrite and Bold Ask Scripts. To serve you your next major vacation, sabbatical, dream project funding, or dare I say a RAISE!
The Three Program Pillars:
Pillar 1:
R.E.C.L.A.I.M. Your Superhuman Mindset (Months 1-3)
Stop running on empty. Build rituals, set boundaries, rewrite your money story, and learn to ask for what you're worth.
Pillar 2:
Direct Energy Like a Winning Legend (Months 4-10)
Master power mapping, strategy, team leadership, and communications. Think like an organizer, act like an executive.
Pillar 3:
Relax & Retreat - Even During The Zombie Apocalypse! (Months 11-12)
Release saviorism, plan your next major vacation or sabbatical; schedule joy, and literally sail into the next season at these waterfront retreats.
WHY THIS WORKS
I built the program I needed when I was you . . .
I'm Nikki M.G. Cole. Campaign strategist. Small business owner. Mother. Breadwinner.
I've run many campaigns, built coalitions, and led many diverse teams.
I've organized for racial justice, economic justice, and environmental justice. And I've burned out doing it. I know what it's like to be the only Black or Brown woman in the room, carrying the weight of the movement on your shoulders while wondering how you'll pay your student loans.
I know what it's like to make 5-figures while your white male peer makes 6-figures for the same work. I know what it's like to feel like you're drowning and have to show up as "the strong one" anyway.
I built Superhuman Leadership because all of the leadership programs I've done gave me a taste of what's possible, but I needed more. I needed strategy AND rest. I needed money skills AND boundary-setting. I needed a program that understood that for women of color, leadership isn't just about skill—it's about survival in an industry struggling with contradictions and double-standards.
Superhuman Leadership and People Power combines and adapts the essential core lessons I learned from:
- 12 years of BOLD Director's Training and Annual Retreats
- The Management Center training
- National Jobs with Justice strategy training and teaching
- People's Action Electoral Leadership Training
- Phil Stutz's tools for managing resistance
- adrienne maree brown's Emergent Strategy and Pleasure Activism
- Rachel Rodgers' wealth-building and communications systems for women
- 16 years of my own winning organizing, campaigning, and power-mapping practices
- 21 years of hospitality in creating space for connection, beauty, bodily and spiritual restoration.
Nobody else is putting all of this in one place. That's why I did.
"Thanks Nikki for crafting workshops for folks we work with within states, in a way that responded to their pressing campaign and strategy needs. I appreciate so much your attentiveness to our ask, and openness to shifting and changing workshop content as a result of our feedback. We appreciate so much the tools you shared which we know will be much loved and used going forward. We look forward to working with you again in the future!"
-Toni F.
National Women's Law Center
I have worked alongside and for Nikki Cole going on 6 years. Her ability to lead, mobilize, and run strategy on issue campaigns are respected nationally. She is the go to person for strategy due to her impeccable reputation as she is a trusted messenger and surrogate.
-Trupti Patel
