Communication That Strengthens Leadership
We partner with mission-driven institutions to strengthen internal and external communication. We help leaders align their messaging, build trust, and communicate effectively, whether navigating change, driving growth, or leading day to day.
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It Starts With Me! is a strategic communications firm partnering with mission-driven organizations to build trust, strengthen alignment, and design communication systems that sustain clarity and shared meaning.
How We Work
Our work includes communications strategy and narrative frameworks, systems design, alignment workshops, capability-building learning labs, advisory partnerships, and speaking.
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We build trust by centering real-world context
We support clear, credible communication by grounding decisions in audience reality, lived experience, and institutional constraints, so your work reflects how people actually think, live, and decide.
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We prioritize alignment over optics
We work with teams to move beyond surface-level messaging by developing communication frameworks that support shared understanding among staff, leadership, partners, and stakeholders.
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We focus on work that holds over time
Rather than one-off campaigns, we develop practical strategies and tools that teams can actually use, designed to adapt as priorities, funding, or conditions change.
Hi, I’m
Nicole
Nicole is an award-winning social impact and communications strategist and speaker with nearly 20 years of experience working at the intersection of strategy, storytelling, and systems in complex, real-world contexts.
She founded It Starts With Me! to support mission-driven organizations and public-sector partners by focusing on the thinking behind communication. She helps teams navigate complexity, clarify priorities, and design approaches that build alignment, credibility, and trust over time.