Our team of expert speakers and trainers brings a combined 100+ years of leadership expertise in leadership training, olympic-level performance improvement, and engineering team concepts into the workplace.

Dr. Nicole Price

CEO, Lively Paradox – former engineer

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Originally trained as an engineer, Dr. Nicole Price later found her true calling in leadership development as a keynote speaker, training leader, and CEO of Lively Paradox. She believes that leadership is personal. Her goal is to always balance courage with caring as she helps clients face and overcome the most challenging leadership development obstacles. Nicole’s technical background enhances her objective approach to solving process problems, flipping dilemmas, and helping people focus on solutions. She prides herself on helping leaders lead well — while honoring who they are as individuals.

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Lisa Gunderson

Customer Service Czar, Leveraging Your Leadership Style

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For over 20 years, Lisa Gunderson has helped teams and individuals enhance their ability to work together and communicate effectively. She emphasizes that the things we protest the most about are usually the areas where we need some support. Lisa is a master at ushering leaders to build a keen self-awareness that impacts everyone in their sphere.

David Bell, J.D.

Thought Partner, Mindfulness

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Mr. Bell has significant experience in criminal matters at the local, state and federal level. When combined with his educational background and other life experiences, Mr. Bell is uniquely situated to help individuals and companies with investigations and charges that could result in serious personal and professional consequences. Combining his desire to help people with his love of the law, Counselor Bell served as a trial attorney in the Missouri Public Defender’s System. After representing thousands of clients in matters ranging from misdemeanor assault to first degree murder, Mr. Bell has had first-hand experience with how leadership injustices can happen when we aren’t mindful.

Stacey Brown

Executive Coach, Operational Excellence

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Stacey is an efficiency driver but also a natural coach. He has the uncanny ability to cut through the confusion and see a clear path forward. His experience includes decades of leading supply chain operations and conducting performance enhancing business transformation initiatives. He is Green Belt Certified and uses process improvement tools to build high performing teams and organizational capabilities in order to achieve superior results. Stacey specializes in organizational behavior, process standardization and enterprise-wide process improvement. He also has direct experience in non-profit leadership and has a relentless focus on achieving desired results.

“Dr. Price guided our staff through an excellent workshop, helping us understand more about how each of our colleagues think and interact, and learn how we can better work with each other. Dr. Price is fun, skilled, engaging, interesting, and knows her work very, very well. I would be excited to attend any workshop facilitated by Lively Paradox and Dr. Price or any of her staff..”

“Dr. Price and her team were insightful and engaging! They moved us farther, faster than I could have imagined as we worked to develop our preliminary leadership plan and integrate [effective practices] throughout our organization.”

“The Lively Paradox team is a pleasure to work with and helped our organization understand and adopt practices that we are utilizing to achieve daily results. If you want to increase workplace cooperation and production, improve collegial, cultural and environmental conditions, their workshops maybe the answer for your company.”

“Fantastic trainings! Dr. Price and the entire team at Lively Paradox perfectly balance humor and deep, critical conversations. Highly recommend..”

“It was so much better. I like "talking about feelings" in general, but I thought a room full of engineers might be resistant to it and the audience might hamper the potential of the training. But that wasn't the case. I felt like everyone genuinely participated and earnestly wanted to develop new skills. The instructors put us all at ease in a way that made us comfortable sharing. There was enough humor and enough concrete examples to make the content approachable.”

“Thank you both so much! I wish everyone could take this training. I've been recalling different things I learned and sharing with my husband and co-workers since I took the training!"