What you know is trapped in your head

You’ve been doing this for 20 years. You’ve explained it at dinner parties, on panels, and to your hairdresser, who only asked if you were going anywhere nice. You’ve started writing it down more times than you dare admit.

You’ve assumed the problem is finding time to write it. It isn’t.

The shape only becomes clear once you’ve said it out loud to someone, in order. Someone asking questions in the right places.

That’s hard to do alone. It needs someone you trust enough to keep asking until it’s there.

What it’s costing you

The book stays a folder of notes. The talk gets rebuilt from scratch every time. Your method only works when you’re in the room, so it can’t grow without you. And someone with half your knowledge, but a finished book, gets the keynote.

Who this is for

• Leaders with a book in them, a folder of notes, and no clear run at it
• Coaches and practitioners whose method is the asset – and currently only works when they’re in the room
• Technical founders whose expertise is the differentiator, and who lose people about ninety seconds in
• Executives writing keynotes, essays or thought leadership between everything else
• Anyone sitting on something important, looking for someone safe to untangle it with

What I do

• Turn complex expertise into something people can understand, remember, and use: a book, keynote, essay, framework, or body of thought
• Ghostwrite books, from interviews to finished manuscript
• Co-author, where my name sits alongside yours
• Developmental editing on a draft that’s stalled
• Keynotes and signature talks
• Long-form essays, blogs, whitepapers, and articles for publication
• Turn the method you use instinctively into a framework other people can follow

How we get there

I ask the questions. You think out loud. I listen for what matters – and for the thing you say in passing that suddenly makes everything else make sense.

Then I draft, you react, we refine. It ends with something tangible that goes out under your name.

What this looks like in practice

Eight books: six published, two in development. Ghostwriter or developmental editor on seven, co-author on one.

First Aid for Feelings. Co-written with Thor A Rain: a Kickstarter-funded manual for everyday emotional first aid, with each chapter anchored in a lived-experience story.

Next up. A growth mindset book with Anand Chulani, whose work spans IPL cricket and Forest Whitaker’s Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative.

See the work →

‘Nicki has an uncanny knack of taking content that is well-researched but not readily accessible to readers and editing it in a way that retains the depth but increases the readability significantly.’ – Glenn Wallis, founder of Exigence and co-author, Leader iD: Discover your leadership profile

Started a draft with AI? Bring it. We’ll put back what only you know.