Nadine Inspires® Inspiring Leaders. Transforming Futures™
Nadine Inspires® Inspiring Leaders. Transforming Futures™
Leadership that liberates. Strategy that sustains. Coaching that transforms.
At Nadine Inspires®, we partner with bold leaders, schools, and organizations who are ready to lead with purpose—not performance.
Our work helps you:
"Innovation demands disruption. Strategy requires courage. Let’s move beyond the old playbook." ~Dr. Nadine Richards
Decades of Impact Across Sectors. Grounded in Strategy, Equity, and Vision.
Dr. Nadine N. Richards brings more than two decades of experience leading and transforming organizations across public, independent, and international sectors. She is a trusted advisor to boards, superintendents, executive teams, and education networks worldwide.
We help leadership teams and organizations:
Where Lived Experience Meets Leadership Design
Our consulting and coaching work is rooted in three signature, research-informed frameworks designed to help you lead with clarity, alignment, and power:
We don’t just build leaders. We restore wholeness, rebuild trust, and design legacy. This is what legacy looks like. I don’t just talk about impact—I walk it, lead it, and build it.
For: Superintendents · Executive Directors · Heads of School, Founders, and C-Suite Leaders
Focus: Individual alignment, strategic clarity, identity-rooted leadership
✔️ Powered by the Orchid-Fire™ and BFLM™ frameworks
✔️ Includes optional P.A.I.R.™ storytelling + pitch support
For: School Boards · Senior Teams · Nonprofit Leadership Groups · Cabinet Teams
Focus: Vision alignment, team trust, inclusive leadership, DEI-to-strategy planning
✔️ Grounded in BFLM™, PAIR™, and consensus-to-commitment principles
✔️ Tailored 2-hour to multi-day formats (virtual or in-person)
For: School Systems · Nonprofit Organizations · Philanthropic Networks
Focus: Governance, infrastructure, DEI alignment, recruitment, policy redesign
✔️ Often paired with data analysis, stakeholder engagement, and talent system reviews
✔️ Past clients include: Roland Park, AISA, Singapore American School, GEMS Education
Service Areas:
Dr. Nadine N. Richards delivers keynotes and talks that move audiences from reflection to action. Her sessions blend lived leadership, research-informed frameworks, and deep strategic insight—equipping leaders to navigate disruption with clarity and purpose.
Designed for executive teams, boards, school leaders, and nonprofit networks, Nadine’s talks are grounded in practice and powered by story.
Signature Topics Include:
📧 Email: Hello@nadineinspires.me
Dr. Nadine N. Richards is a globally recognized strategist, equity architect, and founder of Nadine Inspires®, LLC. With over two decades of executive leadership across public, independent, and international schools, she helps leaders and organizations bridge vision and action through inclusive, future-ready strategy.
Author of Roses from Concrete and creator of the Black Feminist Leadership Model™ (BFLM™), Dr. Richards designs frameworks that move leadership from performance to purpose. She is also the author of the forthcoming peer-reviewed article Cultivating Liberatory Leadership: A Black Feminist Model for Mentorship in Schools and the designer of a mentoring program for aspiring BIPOC leaders in international education.
Her work lives at the intersection of belonging, strategy, and systems change—and has helped boards, school leaders, and nonprofits around the globe lead with impact and integrity.
“You saw what I couldn’t see in myself. Now I lead with conviction, not fear.”
— Independent School Leader & Director of Learning, Middle East
📍 Based in Atlanta. Working globally.
📧 Email: Hello@nadineinspires.me
🌐 Website: www.nadineinspires.me
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🌹 Roses from Concrete
A Black Feminist Leadership Model Rooted in Herstories, Strategy, and Liberation for Reform
In Roses from Concrete, Dr. Nadine N. Richards brings forward the lived experiences of Black women superintendents and heads of school, illuminating how intersectionality, identity, and resistance shape powerful leadership. Grounded in original research and rich storytelling, the book introduces the Black Feminist Leadership Model™ (BFLM)—a transformative framework born from real-world insight and collective strength.
For scholars, practitioners, and changemakers seeking justice-centered leadership, this book is both a roadmap and a reclamation.create a plan to achieve success.
To purchase group sets for academia course work or worshops, order directly from publisher, Peter Lang Publisher.
How to Live, Lead, and Love with Sensitivity, Power, and Purpose
Coming 2027
A deeply personal leadership manifesto and memoir, The Orchid and the Fire explores what it means to lead with wholeness in a fragmented world. Through stories of loss, legacy, resilience, and rebirth, Dr. Nadine N. Richards introduces the Orchid-Fire Model™—a powerful new framework for transformational leadership rooted in vulnerability, vision, and truth.
The Orchid and the Fire™ is a call to leaders, mothers, artists, and changemakers—those brave enough to bloom where they were never meant to grow.
You don’t have to wait for the book’s release to activate this work—elements of the Orchid-Fire Model™ can be integrated today through Nadine’s executive coaching and leadership development experiences.
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