Influential Women honors career coach Nicole Hicks for helping professionals own their next chapter

Influential Women is spotlighting Nicole Hicks, a Career Ownership Coach at The Entrepreneur’s Source, for guiding professionals through layoffs, burnout and career uncertainty. Hicks draws on 25 years in finance and executive leadership to help clients weigh career shifts, business ownership and life design in Utah and beyond.

Why it matters: - Nicole Hicks works with professionals at a time when layoffs, burnout and uncertainty are forcing more people to rethink their careers. - Hicks’ coaching emphasizes not just income, but whether a job or business fits a person’s values, lifestyle and long-term goals. - The approach matters for workers weighing a next step in a changing job market shaped by artificial intelligence and cost-cutting.

What happened: - Influential Women acknowledged Nicole Hicks, a Career Ownership Coach at The Entrepreneur’s Source. - Hicks helps clients navigate career transitions with clarity, confidence and purpose. - Her work focuses on business ownership exploration, career ownership coaching, and second-chapter careers. - Hicks is based in Bicknell, Utah.

The details: - Hicks spent more than 25 years in finance, credit management and executive leadership before becoming a coach. - Her background includes roles at Elite Roofing Supply, Allied Building Products and Intermountain Wood Products. - She earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business. - Hicks also holds Certified Business Fellow and Certified Business Associate credentials. - Her coaching process helps clients explore careers, business ownership and additional income opportunities. - Hicks says her coaching is grounded in real-world experience rather than theory. - She also says a business can be financially sound and still be misaligned with how a person wants to live. - Hicks spent a season caring for her father while he lived with Parkinson’s disease after leaving corporate leadership. - She is raising four children and says those experiences shape how she defines success. - Hicks says her children inspire her to choose courage over fear and build an authentic life. - A former supervisor told Hicks not to assume a job would always be there, advice she says pushed her to live below her means and keep building financial stability and skills. - Hicks advises young women to understand their strengths, values and definition of success before making major career decisions.

Between the lines: - Hicks’ message reflects a broader shift from traditional career planning toward personal ownership of work, income and lifestyle. - Her focus on stewardship, resilience and long-term planning matches the values she says guide both her coaching and her family life. - The emphasis on clarity before action is meant to counter fear-based decisions in a fast-changing labor market.

What's next: - Hicks plans to keep helping clients define goals around income, lifestyle, wealth and equity before they accept their next opportunity. - She will continue her service work through the Restored Heart Collective and the Fremont River Back Country Horsemen of Utah. - Hicks and her family will keep running their off-grid ranch in rural Utah with a focus on regenerative agriculture. - More information is available through Nicole Hicks’ Influential Women profile and her website.