Nicole Nevarez (she/her) "helps things run better." Be it organizational culture and functionality, personal or professional development or group dynamics, Nicole offers guidance, feedback and tools to move people and processes forward. Nicole is a trainer, facilitator, coach and educator. Currently, she serves as the founding CEO of Ta'amod, a multi-pronged initiative dedicated to fostering safety, equity, accountability and holistically well culture in Jewish communal workplaces. Before her current role, Nicole served as New York director for Moving Traditions, a national organization that applies a gender and Jewish lens to engage and empower healthy teens. Nicole has held multiple leadership and professional lead roles for local and National Jewish organizations and nonprofit NYC theaters. She is a graduate of the UpStart Venture Accelerator program and sits on the board of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family JCC.
In her personal practice, she provides independent consulting and coaching to individuals and mission-critical organizations to support them in reflecting their values in action. A longtime Jewish educator, facilitator and spiritual seeker, Nicole combines her experience in theater with her years of teaching adolescents and adults, facilitating groups, coaching and leading empowerment programs to develop and deliver dynamic and accessible content on a myriad of topics and with varied interactive modalities. Nicole believes that when we do the work to reflect on ourselves and our organizations, we have the power to impact deep systemic change.
After 40+ years in NY, as of 2020 Nicole lives in San Diego, CA with her partner, Rabbi Jason Nevarez, their two children, and Sadie the dog.
