About Nicole

Hi! I’m Nicole, a Technology/Data/Analytics/AI CxO who has helped companies grow from $10M to $100M+ and now working to get to $1B! I am an author, keynote speaker, data scientist, enterprise architect, Unicorn (92), casual meteorologist & storm chaser (PSUmeteo 95!), and Burner (look for “Unacceptable” in the Tokyo sector; iykyk). I am an expert in quality and organizational excellence, and care about co-creating simple, elegant, transparent work systems (people + processes + data) that leverage emerging technologies in smart, compelling ways… while advancing the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

As of April 2024, I’m looking for keynotes, consulting contracts, and/or contracts building data/AI teams, aligning data strategies with the business, or participating in other initiatives that require interdisciplinary expertise. Inquire on LinkedIn.

If you are in tech, data, or quality and care about feeling purpose and joy in your work, friend me on LinkedIn!

Professional Bio:

Dr. Nicole Radziwill has served as a Chief Data Officer, Chief Data Scientist, VP & SVP in software, ecommerce, and professional services organizations, including VP of the Global Quality & Supply Chain Practice at Intelex in Toronto, Ontario. She has almost 30 years of experience in software, telecom, manufacturing, aerospace/research instrumentation, and food & beverage industries, and spent 9 of those years in higher education as a (tenured) Associate Professor at James Madison University (JMU). She serves on the Advisory Boards of Great Expectations (formerly Superconductive) and LinkOT (occupational therapy for neurodivergent workers), and is a Partner of and Advisor to Ultranauts, Inc.

Nicole is also an Academician with the International Academy of Quality (IAQ), a Fellow of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), Certified by ASQ as a Manager of Quality and Organizational Excellence (CMQ/OE), and an ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB). She was Chair of the ASQ Software Division from 2009 to 2011, a 4x national Examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA), and has a PhD in Technology Management and Quality Systems from Indiana State University. She also has an MBA and a BS degree in Meteorology from Penn State.

Nicole was recognized by Quality Progress in 2011 and 2016 as one of the 40 New Voices of Quality. She has been one of ASQ’s Influential Voices bloggers since 2012, and blogs at http://qualityandinnovation.com. Her applied research solves practical problems for medium and large enterprises using data science and machine learning for improvement.

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I am a first-generation American, directly descended from Prince Mikolaj (Nicolas) Faustyn Radziwill of Niasvizh (Belarus), Prince Antoni Heinrich Radziwill and Princess Louise Hohenzollern of Königsberg (East Prussia), and Prince Mikolaj the Black (Niasvizh) which makes QE2 my 7th cousin and Prince Phillip my 4th cousin. I have confirmed DNA connections through Pac, Romer, Tyszkiewicz, Rola, Morawski, Narbutt, Hempel/Hemple, Czaplicki, Nowakowski, Popiel, Pociej, Potocki, Radvila, Sollohub, Zakrzewska, Danielowicz/Danielevicius, and Stankewicz/Stankevicius – so let me know if we might be cousins. I’m on most of the DNA genealogy sites, and can even provide assistance translating old German documents handwritten in Sutterlin. My East Prussian family came to the US from Königsberg between 1957 & 1969 after losing everything, from hundreds of years, as Fluechtlinge.

My mother is 98% Irish with all ancestors from Ballina, Crossmolina, and Killala, starting with her grandparents. That side of the family came to the US in 1904 and 1911 and pretended to be German in their emigration docs. A certain US President is my cousin once removed through a shared 2nd great-grandmother, Catherine Scanlon.

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(Non sequitur) This is me spinning fire: