Nicole Price wasn’t always an empathy expert.
In fact, she was once deeply skeptical of it.
Trained as a chemical engineer, Nicole was accustomed to solving problems with logic, data, efficiency, and accountability. Feelings were real, certainly—but they didn’t always seem particularly useful when there was work to do.
Then experience began challenging that assumption.
Nicole started noticing something she couldn’t engineer around: people don’t leave their humanity at the door when they come to work. Logic alone couldn’t explain why talented teams struggled to communicate, why good leaders sometimes caused harm they never intended, or why people could hear the exact same words and walk away with completely different experiences.
I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
Nicole began studying empathy—not as sentimentality or “being nice,” but as a skill that could be understood, practiced, measured, and applied. What began as skepticism became years of research, teaching, experimentation, and work with leaders and organizations across industries.
That journey ultimately became the foundation of Lively Paradox and Nicole’s work as the Empathy Revolutionary.
Today, she helps people understand something she once had to learn herself:
Empathy and accountability aren’t opposites. Understanding people doesn’t require lowering standards. And sometimes the shortest path to better results is getting genuinely curious about the humans responsible for producing them.
That same curiosity now shows up everywhere Nicole does—from executive boardrooms and keynote stages to books, comedy clubs, and church pulpits.
Different rooms. Same question:
How do we understand people well enough to do better with one another?
Today, Dr. Nicole knows that empathy can and should be taught to even the most dyed-in-the-wool cynics corporate boardrooms have to offer. Her company is responsible for success stories across the country. Through empathy, these organizations have created and retained powerful workforces and boosted their bottom lines.
Dr. Nicole holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, a Masters in Education from Park University, an Educational Doctorate in Leadership from Capella University, and postdoctoral studies at Stanford University.
