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Nikki R. Lanier

Labor Attorney, Racial Equity Strategist & Federal Reserve “Insider”

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Nikki R. Lanier Biography

Nikki Lanier is an experienced leader with over 25 years of career achievements that span Banking, Labor and Employment Law, Collective Bargaining, Human Resources, and State Government. A Private and Public Sector CHRO adept in a multitude of HR disciplines, Lanier is experienced in managing multi-site operations, ensuring compliance with all federal and state employment laws and employing comprehensive approaches that effectively align human capital priorities with the overall organizational strategy. Lanier is a collaborative leader who is skilled in building synergetic teams in multi-cultural and cross-functional environments. An Executive Management Committee veteran with site and functional leadership responsibilities with the Federal Reserve Bank, Philip Morris USA, Georgia Pacific, ADP, Charter Schools USA and the country’s largest community college system, Maricopa Community Colleges, Lanier is a dexterous division executive having led teams in a number of settings including, manufacturing, government, higher education, HR consulting, healthcare, k-12 and central banking.

As CHRO of three organizations, Lanier drove accelerated cultural change, created and implemented innovative organizational development, strategic planning, employee relations, community engagements and partnerships, training and development, succession planning, recruitment and retention, labor negotiations and union avoidance, all directed toward driving strong operational outcomes. A consummate leader of leaders, Lanier has led HR departments with more than 200 HR practitioners serving employee populations as large as 33,000 and; pulling from her critical, abstract and liner thinking styles, has managed broad and trajectory “resetting” HR departmental transformations.

Lanier is deeply involved in the community and has served on more than 25 nonprofit boards, commissions and civic committees. Through her work and strong local and national board memberships, she is widely recognized as an accomplished thought leader and compelling keynote and plenary speaker on topics related to in progressive HR strategies, transformational leadership, organizational effectiveness, community and economic development, economic education and advancing diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-racism, corporately and civically.

Lanier earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Miami School of Law, a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Hampton University and holds a certification in Collective Bargaining from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She has served as an adjunct MBA professor for the University of Louisville College of Business where she also serves on its Board of Advisors.

Speaking Topics
    • Transforming HR by Any Means Necessary
    • Women Working Work-Balance and Boundaries:
    • The DEI Debacle: Making the case for thoughtfully paced and sequenced exclusion in furtherance of DEI
    • Audacious HR• A lesson in HR Transformation from Beyonce
    • list text hereThe Leadership Lens-How my Story has shaped my lens and how my lens shapes everything else
    • DEI Dialogue and Dimensions
    • Inclusive Inclusion
    • The Economics of Racial Equity
    • The Garden-The Ecosystem of DEI

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  • How do I book Nikki R. Lanier to speak at my event?

    Our experienced booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure speakers like Nikki R. Lanier for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment since 2002. Click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page to check availability for Nikki R. Lanier, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get speaking fee information and check availability for Nikki R. Lanier or any other speaker of your choice.
  • What are the speaker fees for Nikki R. Lanier

    Speaking fees for Nikki R. Lanier, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The estimated fees to book Nikki R. Lanier are $20,000 - $30,000 for live events and $10,000 - $20,000 for virtual events. For the most current speaking fee to hire Nikki R. Lanier, click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak directly with an experienced booking agent.
  • What topics does Nikki R. Lanier speak about?

    Nikki R. Lanier is a keynote speaker and industry expert whose speaking topics include Business, Diversity Speakers, Empowerment, Human Resources, Law, Leadership Speakers, Personal Growth, Speakers by Industry, Virtual Speakers.
  • Where does Nikki R. Lanier travel from?

    Nikki R. Lanier generally travels from Louisville, KY, USA, but can be booked for private corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. For more details, please contact an AAE Booking agent.
  • Who is Nikki R. Lanier’s agent?

    AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully booked keynote speakers like Nikki R. Lanier for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Nikki R. Lanier for your next private or corporate function.
  • What is a full-service speaker booking agency?

    AAE Speakers Bureau is a full-service speaker booking agency, meaning we can completely manage the speaker’s or celebrity’s engagement with your organization from the time of booking your speaker through the event’s completion. We provide all of the services you need to host Nikki R. Lanier or any other speaker of your choice, including offer negotiation, contractual assistance, accounting and billing, and event speaker travel and logistics services. When you book a speaker with us, we manage the process of hosting a speaker for you as an extension of your team. Our goal is to give our clients peace of mind and a best-in-class service experience when booking a speaker with us.
  • Why is AAE Speakers Bureau different from other booking agencies?

    If you’re looking for the best, unbiased speaker recommendations, paired with a top-notch customer service experience, you’re in the right place. At AAE Speakers Bureau, we exclusively represent the interests of our clients - professional organizations, companies, universities, and associations. We intentionally do not represent the speakers we feature or book. That is so we can present our clients with the broadest and best performing set of speaker options in the market today, and we can make these recommendations without any obligation to promote a specific speaker over another. This is why when our agents suggest a speaker for your event, you can be assured that they are of the highest quality with a history of proven success with our other clients.
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Labor Attorney, Racial Equity Strategist & Federal Reserve “Insider”

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Nikki R. Lanier Biography

Nikki Lanier is an experienced leader with over 25 years of career achievements that span Banking, Labor and Employment Law, Collective Bargaining, Human Resources, and State Government. A Private and Public Sector CHRO adept in a multitude of HR disciplines, Lanier is experienced in managing multi-site operations, ensuring compliance with all federal and state employment laws and employing comprehensive approaches that effectively align human capital priorities with the overall organizational strategy. Lanier is a collaborative leader who is skilled in building synergetic teams in multi-cultural and cross-functional environments. An Executive Management Committee veteran with site and functional leadership responsibilities with the Federal Reserve Bank, Philip Morris USA, Georgia Pacific, ADP, Charter Schools USA and the country’s largest community college system, Maricopa Community Colleges, Lanier is a dexterous division executive having led teams in a number of settings including, manufacturing, government, higher education, HR consulting, healthcare, k-12 and central banking.

As CHRO of three organizations, Lanier drove accelerated cultural change, created and implemented innovative organizational development, strategic planning, employee relations, community engagements and partnerships, training and development, succession planning, recruitment and retention, labor negotiations and union avoidance, all directed toward driving strong operational outcomes. A consummate leader of leaders, Lanier has led HR departments with more than 200 HR practitioners serving employee populations as large as 33,000 and; pulling from her critical, abstract and liner thinking styles, has managed broad and trajectory “resetting” HR departmental transformations.

Lanier is deeply involved in the community and has served on more than 25 nonprofit boards, commissions and civic committees. Through her work and strong local and national board memberships, she is widely recognized as an accomplished thought leader and compelling keynote and plenary speaker on topics related to in progressive HR strategies, transformational leadership, organizational effectiveness, community and economic development, economic education and advancing diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-racism, corporately and civically.

Lanier earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Miami School of Law, a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Hampton University and holds a certification in Collective Bargaining from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She has served as an adjunct MBA professor for the University of Louisville College of Business where she also serves on its Board of Advisors.

Nikki R. Lanier Speaking Topics

    • Transforming HR by Any Means Necessary
    • Women Working Work-Balance and Boundaries:
    • The DEI Debacle: Making the case for thoughtfully paced and sequenced exclusion in furtherance of DEI
    • Audacious HR• A lesson in HR Transformation from Beyonce
    • list text hereThe Leadership Lens-How my Story has shaped my lens and how my lens shapes everything else
    • DEI Dialogue and Dimensions
    • Inclusive Inclusion
    • The Economics of Racial Equity
    • The Garden-The Ecosystem of DEI

Nikki R. Lanier Videos

  • Harper Slade@12 Nikki Lanier and Dane Holmes Interview - YouTube
    Dane. E. Holmes is the Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Eskalera, Inc., an enterprise software company that builds inclusive, ...
  • Minorities in Banking Conference: The Banker - YouTube
    Nikki R. Lanier, Senior Vice President and Regional Executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Louisville Branch Brian E. Argrett, ...

FAQs on booking Nikki R. Lanier

  • How do I book Nikki R. Lanier to speak at my event?

    Our experienced booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure speakers like Nikki R. Lanier for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment since 2002. Click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page to check availability for Nikki R. Lanier, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get speaking fee information and check availability for Nikki R. Lanier or any other speaker of your choice.
  • What are the speaker fees for Nikki R. Lanier

    Speaking fees for Nikki R. Lanier, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The estimated fees to book Nikki R. Lanier are $20,000 - $30,000 for live events and $10,000 - $20,000 for virtual events. For the most current speaking fee to hire Nikki R. Lanier, click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak directly with an experienced booking agent.
  • What topics does Nikki R. Lanier speak about?

    Nikki R. Lanier is a keynote speaker and industry expert whose speaking topics include Business, Diversity Speakers, Empowerment, Human Resources, Law, Leadership Speakers, Personal Growth, Speakers by Industry, Virtual Speakers.
  • Where does Nikki R. Lanier travel from?

    Nikki R. Lanier generally travels from Louisville, KY, USA, but can be booked for private corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. For more details, please contact an AAE Booking agent.
  • Who is Nikki R. Lanier’s agent?

    AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully booked keynote speakers like Nikki R. Lanier for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Nikki R. Lanier for your next private or corporate function.
  • What is a full-service speaker booking agency?

    AAE Speakers Bureau is a full-service speaker booking agency, meaning we can completely manage the speaker’s or celebrity’s engagement with your organization from the time of booking your speaker through the event’s completion. We provide all of the services you need to host Nikki R. Lanier or any other speaker of your choice, including offer negotiation, contractual assistance, accounting and billing, and event speaker travel and logistics services. When you book a speaker with us, we manage the process of hosting a speaker for you as an extension of your team. Our goal is to give our clients peace of mind and a best-in-class service experience when booking a speaker with us.
  • Why is AAE Speakers Bureau different from other booking agencies?

    If you’re looking for the best, unbiased speaker recommendations, paired with a top-notch customer service experience, you’re in the right place. At AAE Speakers Bureau, we exclusively represent the interests of our clients - professional organizations, companies, universities, and associations. We intentionally do not represent the speakers we feature or book. That is so we can present our clients with the broadest and best performing set of speaker options in the market today, and we can make these recommendations without any obligation to promote a specific speaker over another. This is why when our agents suggest a speaker for your event, you can be assured that they are of the highest quality with a history of proven success with our other clients.

Nikki R. Lanier is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as. The estimated speaking fee range to book Nikki R. Lanier for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Nikki R. Lanier generally travels from Louisville, KY, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Dr. Bernice King, Kylar Broadus, Lydia X. Z. Brown, Anthony C. Thompson and Sage Ke'alohilani Quiamno. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Nikki R. Lanier for an upcoming live or virtual event.

Nikki R. Lanier Speaking Topics

    • Transforming HR by Any Means Necessary
    • Women Working Work-Balance and Boundaries:
    • The DEI Debacle: Making the case for thoughtfully paced and sequenced exclusion in furtherance of DEI
    • Audacious HR• A lesson in HR Transformation from Beyonce
    • list text hereThe Leadership Lens-How my Story has shaped my lens and how my lens shapes everything else
    • DEI Dialogue and Dimensions
    • Inclusive Inclusion
    • The Economics of Racial Equity
    • The Garden-The Ecosystem of DEI

Nikki R. Lanier Speaker Videos

  • Harper Slade@12 Nikki Lanier and Dane Holmes Interview - YouTube
    Dane. E. Holmes is the Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Eskalera, Inc., an enterprise software company that builds inclusive, ...
    Minorities in Banking Conference: The Banker - YouTube
    Nikki R. Lanier, Senior Vice President and Regional Executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Louisville Branch Brian E. Argrett, ...

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This website is a resource for event professionals and strives to provide the most comprehensive catalog of thought leaders and industry experts to consider for speaking engagements. A listing or profile on this website does not imply an agency affiliation or endorsement by the talent.

All American Entertainment (AAE) exclusively represents the interests of talent buyers, and does not claim to be the agency or management for any speaker or artist on this site. AAE is a talent booking agency for paid events only. We do not handle requests for donation of time or media requests for interviews, and cannot provide celebrity contact information.

If you are the talent and wish to request a profile update or removal from our online directory, please submit a profile request form.

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