Heartwood & Co. — Est. 2025

Human-centered advisory and technology for women, leaders, and organizations finding their footing.

Nicole Collins, founder of Heartwood & Co.

Founder

Nicole Collins

People & Culture · AI Transformation

About

A studio grown from something.

Heartwood & Co. is an advisory and technology studio helping women, leaders, and organizations find stable ground in moments of change.

We believe the best work happens when human judgment and emerging technology meet with care — when strategy is grounded in lived experience, and when transformation is treated as something to be tended, not forced.

Read my story

Two Tracks

01 / 02

01Now serving

Advisory

Interim and fractional People & Culture leadership, AI transformation strategy, and culture work for companies navigating mergers, reorgs, scaling, or reinvention.

Trusted partner to CEOs, boards, and founding teams.

02Launched

Products

Human-centered technology for women rebuilding after loss. Built with the same care we bring to every advisory engagement.

Bea — a financial guide for women in the first year of widowhood.

Founded by

Nicole Collins — a 15-year People & Culture leader at mission-driven tech companies.

Most recently VP at Innovasea. Now building Heartwood & Co. as a home for the work that has always mattered most: helping people and organizations grow into who they are becoming.

Contact

Let's find your footing.

Whether you're navigating change at the helm of an organization, or rebuilding something quieter and more personal — I'd love to hear what you're working through.

Or write directly: nicolepcollins@gmail.com