Natalie Fikes

Emcee, Leadership Coach & Bestselling Author of Empowered To Prosper

Natalie is a champion for personal responsibility. She is a #1 best-selling author, named one of John Maxwell’s Top 100 Leaders, Best Speaker of Today by Northstar Meetings Group, The founder of Code Next Generation (now Teen Vocal), and recently named the 73rd Georgia Mother of the Year by Americanmothers.org. Natalie is a fiery speaker on a relentless mission to improve the conditions of clients, audiences, and youth transitioning into adulthood.

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  • Natalie Fikes Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

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  • Languages Spoken

    English

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UNQUITABLE LEADERSHIP: IGNITING ENGAGEMENT, EMPOWERING GROWTH

Leadership is more than the obligations of a role; it is one of the most rewarding opportunities to drive organizational success, inspire people, and lead with resilience and purpose. However, many leaders become so caught up in daily tasks that they miss the broader, ...

Leadership is more than the obligations of a role; it is one of the most rewarding opportunities to drive organizational success, inspire people, and lead with resilience and purpose. However, many leaders become so caught up in daily tasks that they miss the broader, transformative impact of their role-leading to burnout disengagement, and missed opportunities for growth. Unquitable™ Leadership redefines leadership as a commitment to resilience, a clear vision, and a purpose that strengthens with each challenge, evolving to benefit everyone involved.

In this keynote, Natalie Fikes equips leaders with strategies to align teams, foster genuine collaboration, and create a culture where everyone feels, “I Am Necessary.” Leaders will learn how to empower individuals to contribute meaningfully, embrace innovation, and build a resistance-proof environment where unwavering commitment to the vision ignites engagement and drives sustainable success.

Perfect for leaders who want to reignite a passion for their role, seek a healthy work-life balance, and for organizations that strive to cultivate a motivated, resilient workforce, this keynote offers a transformative approach to building a thriving, missiondriven organization.

OBJECTIVES

  • Align Teams with a Shared Vision: Discover how to create a clear and compelling vision that aligns individual goals with organizational objectives, fostering a unified sense of purpose at every level.
  • Cultivate Resilience In Leadership: Learn strategies to strengthen resilience as a leader, allowing you and your team to grow stronger with every challenge and navigate setbacks as opportunities for growth.
  • Empower Meaningful Contributions Through Alignment: Learn how to align each team member’s personal aspirations with organizational goals, creating shared responsibility in executing the vision. This fosters a culture where everyone feels, “I Am Necessary.”
  • Build a Resistance-Proof Culture: Gain insights on how to create an adaptable, innovative culture that embraces challenges as opportunities for resilience, collaboration, and sustainable growth.

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Employees/ Leaders/ Teams

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THE RED NOSE EFFECT: INNOVATING THE FUTURE WITH RESILIENCE and COLLABORATION

Creating sustainable success requires more than individual talent: it demands cross-functional collaboration and resilient leadership. The Red Nose Effect™ is a transformative keynote that demonstrates how innovative solutions emerge when diverse teams unite under a shared ...

Creating sustainable success requires more than individual talent: it demands cross-functional collaboration and resilient leadership. The Red Nose Effect™ is a transformative keynote that demonstrates how innovative solutions emerge when diverse teams unite under a shared vision, turning challenges into opportunities for growth that drive both collective success and personal fulfillment.

Natalie Fikes provides practical strategies for applying the principles of resilience and collaboration emphasizing that true innovation happens when individuals adapt, align, and contribute to a vision that transcends roles and titles. This keynote is designed for organizations seeking to foster a resilient, collaborative culture that drives innovative change.

Attendees will gain a fresh perspective on how aligning individual strengths with organizational goals can ignite sustainable growth and innovation, creating a workplace where each challenge fuels greater success for both the team and the individual.

OBJECTIVES

  • Align Individual Strengths With Organizational Goals: Learn how to connect personal ambitions with a shared vision, fostering both professional growth and individual fulfillment.
  • Cultivate Resilience Through Challenges: Develop strategies to turn obstacles into opportunities, building confidence and adaptability within teams.
  • Empower Crosss-Functional Collaboration: Implement methods to break down silos and foster a culture of collaboration that drives innovative solutions and sustainable growth.
  • Create a Vision-Centered Culture: Gain insights into building an environment where alignment with broader organizational goals fosters personal growth, belonging, and a shared sense of mission.
  • Shift from Role-Defined Worth to Value-Driven Contribution: Cultivate a mindset focused on adding value to the organization rather than defining oneself by a role or title, empowering individuals to see each position as an opportunity to grow and make meaningful contributions.

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Employees/ Leaders/ Teams

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Unquitable Success: Crafting a Career Path with Vision and Purpose

Today’s workforce can be overwhelming for professionals, especially when trying to balance personal fulfillment with career expectations. In this transformative keynote, Natalie Fikes addresses the key challenges employees face unclear career paths that don’t align...

Today’s workforce can be overwhelming for professionals, especially when trying to balance personal fulfillment with career expectations. In this transformative keynote, Natalie Fikes addresses the key challenges employees face unclear career paths that don’t align with personal ambitions, misconceptions about success being solely defined by titles or salaries, and the pressure to balance career growth with a fulfilling life outside of work. She emphasizes that the real key to creating a life worth living isn’t about landing the perfect job, it’s about connecting to a shared vision that transcends any one role or position.

Through meaningful storytelling, Natalie provides practical strategies for navigating the modern workforce, helping professionals align with organizational goals to ignite a shared vision, purpose, and sense of belonging. She offers guidance on building resilience by turning challenges into opportunities and focusing on adding value to the role, rather than allowing the role to define their worth.

This engaging keynote is perfect for both emerging and seasoned professionals as well as organizations seeking to attract and retain top talent, increase engagement, and foster a mission-focused culture. Participants will leave with a renewed sense of value and direction, understanding how to turn any job into an opportunity to contribute, grow and build a purposeful career.

OBJECTIVES

  • Identify and connect personal ambitions with organizational goals, crafting a career path that promotes both professional growth and personal fulfillment.
  • Learn to cultivate resilience by transforming challenges into opportunities, building confidence and adaptability to navigate a rapidly changing workforce.
  • Develop and implement strategies to add value to roles, shifting shared vision and collective purpose.
  • Gain insights into creating a vision-centered workplace, where alignment with broader organizational goals fosters a sense of belonging and mission among team members.
  • Explore methods to foster a growth-focused culture that attracts and retains top talent, creating an environment where personal growth and professional success coexist seamlessly.

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Exmployees/Leaders/Teams

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About Keynote Speaker Natalie Fikes

Natalie Fikes was born in Kingston, Jamaica on June 6, 1980 during a time when government troops were called out to restore order after riots broke out due to political violence to. At nine days old, in the wee hours of the morning, Natalie’s cry awakened her young parents who noticed someone was in the home, causing them to avoid a fatal home invasion. A few weeks later, she moved to Queens, NY. It wasn’t long before her parents split and Natalie was raised as an only child by her single mother. As a latch key kid, Natalie had to brave the streets of NY on her own. As a habitual new kid, Natalie never seemed to fit in with her peers. She excelled academically but was constantly reprimanded for talking too much. Overwhelmed by environments filled with verbal and physical abuse, Natalie found solace in the arts. After gaining some stability at school, becoming the captain and MVP of the girls track team, Natalie’s home life became unbearable. At 16 years old, she decided to leave home. After gaining employment through her school’s DECA program, Natalie interviewed and was selected to enter corporate America as a customer service presentative for the launch of Geico’s Emergency Road Service. Two years after graduating high school, Natalie attended a job fair where she was hired as a sales and service representative at the Verizon call center. While she found peace in the stability that her job provided, she started to feel a profound emptiness inside. Realizing that she had no standard by which to measure success, Natalie started on a self-development journey.

In 2003, Natalie became the youngest, African American female in management for Verizon’s Southeast Region. She is most noted for leading a team of underperforming sales and service associates to the top of the sales district in six short months. As office sales champion, Natalie helped her peers excel, moving the office from 5th to 3rd place.

Despite leaving home at 16 years old, Natalie’s resilience to keep going was because she believed deeply in her ability to overcome her circumstances. Following her desire to do meaningful work, Natalie started Code Next Generation (now Teen Vocal), a youth organization that successfully transitions youth to adulthood. In 2015, she was named one of John Maxwell’s Top 100 Leaders, with participants of her program receiving White House recognition from President Barack Obama for exceptional community service.

In 2016, Natalie became the Central Regional Manager for The International Association of Women (IAW) where she was responsible for training and developing chapter leaders and membership retention. In three short months, Natalie increased member engagement by 63% and increased that number to 81% within one year. In collaboration with Star Jones, Natalie is responsible for contributing to the successful implementation of IAW’s largest online chapter serving more than 20,000 members.

In 2018, seven months after winning a speaker’s competition, Natalie was named “Best Speaker of Today” by Northstar Meetings Group. In 2019, she received the ACHI Magazine’s Orator of the Year award.

Natalie is the CEO of Breakthrough to Millions LLC, a training and development firm that creates entrepreneurial opportunities that facilitate an improved quality of life. In 2020, when the world as we know it changed, Natalie launched The Greater Purpose Society (GPS) to help individuals resolve their own problems by building mental tenacity to overcome obstacles and achieve higher goals.

In 2021, Natalie was inducted into the Marquis Who’s Who of America. She has served as the COO for The African American Association of USA, and the Central Regional Director of Training and Development for Black Wallstreet USA. Her greatest accomplishment to date is overcoming an unstable childhood of verbal and physical abuse to become a committed mother to her two hilarious son’s Elijah and Jayden. She was recently named the 73rd Georgia Mother of the Year by AmericanMothers.org

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