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Keynotes and sessions for leadership gatherings, conferences, and teams — practical, encouraging, and grounded in real leadership experience.
The Fuller Way Group is a leadership development company founded by Nicky and Mike Fuller. We work with leaders in every sector who want to build healthy, trusted cultures — and the systems that sustain them — where people are known, supported, and growing.
“To cultivate leaders who create environments where every person can flourish.”
That is the heart of The Fuller Way™. We believe flourishing isn't an accident — it's cultivated, over time, by leaders of character who build culture on purpose, develop systems that sustain it, and pay attention to the people in their care.
The Fuller Way Group was founded on a simple conviction: healthy organizations grow from healthy leadership. When leaders lead with character, nurture culture intentionally, and develop systems that support it, people do more than perform — they flourish, and the results follow.
Our work brings together decades of experience in education, human resources, military service, strategic planning, and organizational leadership. We speak, coach, and consult with leaders and teams who want to strengthen how they work together — starting with the partnerships at the heart of every organization, including the leader and the executive partner who helps that leader's work succeed.
At the heart of our work is The Fuller Way Tree™, our framework for how healthy leadership grows: character as the roots, culture as the trunk, relationships as the branches, people as the leaves — and results as the fruit. It gives leaders a shared picture of what they are tending, and where to look first when something isn't growing.
“Everyone communicates — few connect.” — John Maxwell
This insight from Dr. John C. Maxwell sits at the center of our work with teams. Talking is easy; connecting — being heard, understood, and trusted — is what makes a team actually work together. Our Maxwell Leadership training and DISC certification give leaders and teams a shared language for doing exactly that.
Nicky and Mike are Maxwell Leadership Certified Team Members, taught and trained by Dr. John C. Maxwell — an authority on leadership for more than 50 years. Nicky is a John Maxwell Certified Speaker, Trainer and Coach, bringing Maxwell’s time-tested leadership teaching into keynotes, training, and coaching for leaders and their teams.
Nicky is a Certified DISC Trainer and Consultant. DISC helps each person on a team understand their own communication and behavior style — and, just as importantly, the styles of the people they work with every day. That understanding changes how teams talk, decide, and handle tension.
Keynotes and sessions for leadership gatherings, conferences, and teams — practical, encouraging, and grounded in real leadership experience.
One-to-one and team coaching that helps leaders see clearly, lead with confidence, and grow the people around them.
Support for organizations working on culture, the systems that sustain it, leadership capacity, and how their teams work together — tailored to your context and season.
Our flagship learning experience brings The Fuller Way Tree™ to life for leaders and the executive partners who help their work succeed — the pairing where healthy culture either takes hold or breaks down. We share full details directly with organizations ready to explore bringing the Academy to their team.
Two different careers, one shared conviction: people flourish under leaders who cultivate them. Nicky brings senior educational leadership and human resources; Mike brings military aviation, strategic planning, and federal service.
Nicky is a senior educational leader whose career spans the classroom, the principal's office, and district leadership. She has been an educator for over 29 years, with 17 of those years in leadership roles. She works as Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources for a large Southern California school district, and brings that people-first experience — how leaders are developed, how teams are supported, and how culture is built on purpose — to The Fuller Way Group.
Email Nickynicky@thefullerwaygroup.com
Mike brings the discipline of the cockpit and the strategy room. A retired Naval Aviator and retired IT Cyber Security Program Manager with the Department of Defense and the Federal Government, he pairs strategic planning and coaching with experience in organizational transformation and operations improvement — helping leaders think clearly and act decisively. Across more than 40 years in consulting, military service, and the federal government, he brings 30 years of leadership experience to that work.
Email Mikemike@thefullerwaygroup.com
What we’ve learned from John Maxwell — his introduction of us, and each of us sharing a little about what we bring to the teams we work with.