Our team of expert speakers and trainers brings a combined 50+ years of leadership expertise in leadership training, olympic-level performance improvement, and engineering team concepts into the workplace.

“We have work to do.”

- Dr. Nicole Price

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Dr. Nicole Price

CEO, Lively Paradox - Empathy Revolutionary

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.

“Everyone deserves multiple chances to get things right.”

-Dr. Ian A. Roberts

Dr. Ian A. Roberts

Olympian, Mastering the Art of Good to Great

Author of Radical Empathy and co-author of Dangerous Indifference (with Lively Paradox founder), Dr. Ian Roberts is a sought-after keynote speaker in the U.S. and internationally.

Integral to his people performance perspective is Ian’s experience as an Olympic track and field star. He knows how to take a team from ‘good enough’ to exceptional, and he exemplifies empathetic and compassionate leadership.

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“When you understand yourself well, there is little need to fear other people.”

- Lisa Gunderson

Lisa Gunderson

Customer Service Czar, Leveraging Your Leadership Style

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.

“Always put a bow on it.”

- Jocelyn Chaunte

Jocelyn Chaunte

Business Development

Combine passionate, relationship driven, and goal oriented, and you have Jocelyn. Serving as a Business Development Director at Lively Paradox, Jocelyn establishes and maintains communications with clients and partners. She also identifies new avenues for sharing the Lively Paradox message.

She is a master enthusiast, professional organizer, and skillful multitasker. Her impressive customer service background allows her to listen well and communicate clearly, while ensuring everyone is on the same page.

Ask her about how to grill (and basketball). It’s her secret talent.

“There is a spark of the divine in each of us.”

- David Bell

David Bell, Esq.

Thought Partner, Mindfulness

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.

“Progress over perfection.”

- Stacey Brown

Stacey Brown

Executive Coach, Operational Excellence

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.

LP Testimonials

“Dr. Price and her team were insightful and engraving! They moved us farther, faster than I could have imagined as we worked to develop our preliminary equity plan and integrate DEI throughout our organization.”

Senior Pastor

National Mega Church

“This course has slowly broken through a lot of that fragility and defensiveness in me. I have a long way to go, but I think you've helped to put me on a far more conscionable path. I'm a middle aged, straight, able-bodied, white male, so I have lived my whole life on the benefiting side of every inequity. I can't imagine the courage that it takes to stand up and tell people like me about racism, but to also directly confront our deeply held beliefs. I am impressed and humbled.”

SMG Employee

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Training Session

“Lively Paradox’s transformational training has helped BV leadership and staff further develop a culture of inclusion and acceptance districtwide.”

Director of Professional Learning

K-12 School District

“I believe leaders of every organization need to have more of this type of training.”

Participant

Diversity & Inclusion Training Session

“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.”

President

the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Kansas City

“I thoroughly enjoyed the exercises you led us through. Wonderful energy.”

Principal, BNIM

High Performance Workshop

Our Clients

Aspire Public Schools
Bayer Pharmaceuticals
Blue Valley School District
Burns & McDonald
City Academy Charter Schools
Community America Credit Union
Des Moines Public Schools EVERSANA
Full Employment Council (FEC)
Harvesters Food Network
International Association of Administrative Professionals
Iron Mountain
Kansas City Public Schools

Lear Corporation
Life Fitness
Martinrea
Mid-America LGBT Chamber of Commerce
Midwest Association of Colleges & Employers
Network of Executive Women
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Planet Fitness
Rappahannock Electric Cooperative Spencer Fane University of Missouri - Kansas City Bloch School
University of Mary Washington
US Food & Drug Administration
Vibrant Health