About Nikole

Nikole Brugnoli Sheaffer is dedicated to making the world a brighter place. She is a dynamic partner committed to organizations and leaders in nonprofits and education that need a gentle nudge, a clear plan, or confidence boosting to get unstuck. She approaches organizational challenges in unconventional ways to reignite passion and purpose so that leaders can innovate solutions to make a lasting impact on their community.  She reframes challenges, builds new perspectives, and develops new habits of mind that feed joy and recommit leaders and organizations to the complexity ahead. With a knack for turning visionary concepts into actionable strategies, Nikole is a creative, social innovator and advocate (and capacity-builder) for leaders doing important work for impactful change.

As the Founder of The Thinking Lab, LLC in 2022, Nikole has been building leadership capacity and program development. Through insightful listening sessions, meticulous research, and data analysis, she crafts processes and develops strategy and tactics for project implementation. Her expertise in project management ensures clarity, consistency, and transparency, while her exceptional relationship-building skills foster strong internal and external partnerships.

Nikole's talent for grant writing and program creation transforms ideas from sketches on a whiteboard into fully realized, impactful initiatives, and, because of her background in other spaces, Nikole can provide an advisory role for budget development, human resource needs, and change management.