Nikki R. Lanier, JD

Nikki Lanier is the CEO of Harper Slade, an advisory firm focused on helping organizations advance human capital strategies based on the demographic workforce of the future. An experienced leader with over 25 years of career achievements that span Monetary Policy, Labor and Employment Law, Collective Bargaining, Human Resources, and State Government, Nikki has an extraordinarily unique professional background. Having been reared on a historically black college campus and raised by two parents very steeped in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, Nikki’s voice and perspective on the link between inequity and macroeconomics is a compelling one.  Her musings on these topics have been featured in USA Today, Forbes Magazine, Essence Magazine, Ebony Media, Blavity, PBS and countless webcasts and podcasts. Though based in Kentucky, she has spoken at convenings all over the world in furtherance of this work, Nikki is a dexterous executive having led teams in a number of sectors including, manufacturing, government, higher education, consumer goods & healthcare.

Her advice and counsel have been sought after by governors, mayors, candidates for elected office, Federal Reserve leaders and college presidents.

Nikki 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 and has served on more than 15 non-profit and public boards.