Jade Ashley Nikolaou

Jade is the Global Head of People Operations at SecondMuse. As a member of the leadership team, Jade owns the global inclusive growth strategy work and creates full end-to-end plans to achieve success for all employees at SecondMuse. She also leads the global social impact programming, internal stakeholder engagement, measurement, and thought leadership design framework.

Jade serves as a strong partner to fellow executive leadership and senior management teams in developing goals, skills, competencies, training, and strategies that increase the impact of their people across all SecondMuse entities. As a link between management and employees, she proactively identifies issues and navigates solutions to all people-operations challenges.

She provides strategic and creative leadership at all levels to advance SecondMuses’ inclusion and diversity goals and cultivate an inclusive environment for people from all backgrounds as well as provide meaningful consultation to build a steady cadence around inclusion and equity.

As an activist for systemic change, Jade believes that fostering empowerment within communities promotes true authenticity and acceptance. She values herself as a strategy activator, culture shifter and change maker, whose methodology is rooted in moving at the speed of trust and empowering others to lead and engage authentically.

A little fun fact: Most people call her Queen Jade.