Nicole R. Smith | October 2026
Visionary Speaker: Nicole R. Smith
Join us on October 16 at 9am Pacific | 12pm Eastern for a Visionary Speaker Session with special guest and Impact Table member Roxy Rimmer.
Impact Table Visionary Speaker Sessions are private member and invite-only gatherings that bring respected women leaders in impact to share about their personal leadership and impact journey and important lessons learned along the way.
Our guests share an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at their own leadership and impact journey and share tips and tools they’ve learned, giving members the real talk, connection, and truth we all crave and inspiration you can take with you on your own path.
Following the speaker’s share is an open Q&A with the speaker and time for members to break out into small groups.
About Impact Table Visionary Speaker Sessions
Too many women in social impact are under-resourced and under-supported, navigating their leadership and impact journey alone, or in a silo. We know, doing the world’s most important work isn’t a solo gig. One way we can stop patching together a leadership journey built on trial and error and instinct alone is to listen and learn from others share the truth behind how they’ve navigated own leadership and impact journey, and share about our own experiences. Through Impact Table Visionary Speaker Sessions, we remove the veil and the misconceptions of what it takes to lead an impact journey that truly transforms lives and we inspire and equip Impact Table members to elevate their own leadership.
About Nicole
Nicole is a Panamanian-American workforce development and community engagement specialist, published author of Game On! Relentlessly Pursue Your Dreams and the 101 Note-taking Affirmation Journal Series, internationally known motivational speaker, blogger, and podcast host of From The Suggestion Box: Navigating Feedback, The Good, The Bad, and the Say Whaaatttt???.
She earned her Bachelor's degree via a Division I full-ride track scholarship and after graduating, founded Step It Up! Inc., a non-profit dance organization that allowed her to perform for audiences nationwide and used dance to teach teamwork to kids in after school programs.
Her experience in sports entertainment, radio, TV, the performing arts, and social services has spanned nearly 20 years and covered major markets nationwide including Chicago, Houston, and Miami. She has danced and cheered for four Professional and Semi-Professional sports teams, has prepared nearly 1,000 interns to enter the workforce and has inspired crowds upwards of 2000.
She has been a proud mentor for the Tessitura Network’s Career Accelerator program for the past four years, which is a free program dedicated to diversifying Arts leadership.
She was a contributing writer for The Life of a Single Mom for two years and has been published in several industry journals including The Volunteer Management Report, Human Capital Leadership Magazine and The Chronicle of Philanthropy Magazine.
As a nod to her belief in continuous education, in 2021 she earned her certification Volunteer Administration (CVA) and in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace from the USF Muma College of Business.
She has received several accolades, including being listed as one of Galaxy Digital's Top Names in Volunteer Engagement, receiving an Emerging Leader Award from ALIVE Impact Awards for Volunteer Engagement Professionals, receiving the Amplifying Voices Award from United Latinas, being listed as one of WLRN’s “Local Women Who Inspire You” and being selected as one of Legacy Miami’s Most Prominent and Influential Black Women In Business and Industry of 2019.
She is passionate about giving back to her community. serving as a former Board member of the Association for Leaders In Volunteer Engagement, Ageless CHIC Magazine, and the Arts and Business Council of Miami.
