A scholar, speaker, entrepreneur, and pastor, Dr. Nicholas Pearce is an award-winning professor of management and organizations at the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, the Founder & CEO of The Vocati Group, a boutique organizational development consultancy, and a respected faith leader. He is the author of The Purpose Path: A Guide to Pursuing Your Authentic Life’s Work.
Dr. Pearce is a globally-recognized expert on values-driven leadership, diversity & inclusion, and organizational transformation. Through his global executive advisory practice, The Vocati Group, Dr. Pearce has been privileged to serve as a trusted executive adviser, leadership coach, organizational strategist, conference speaker, and retreat facilitator, for several of the world’s premier organizations, including Fortune Global 500 corporations, national governments, philanthropic organizations, and faith-based institutions on six continents, including:
We partner with top-level and high-potential leaders who are growth-minded and hungry for focused development in six and twelve-month coaching relationships to drive self-discovery, boost confidence, and facilitate greater human flourishing.
We partner with leaders of teams, organizations, and boards who are looking for honest, objective thought partnership in the face of a particular strategic leadership or organizational challenge. Drawing on our rich insight into organizational behavior and experience with organizations on six continents, we serve as a trusted problem-solving partner for leaders navigating sensitive challenges. Different than coaching, which is focused on the leader, strategic advising is focused on partnering to solve the organizational challenge(s) at-hand.
We offer keynote, quarter-day, half-day, and full-day sessions that integrate cutting-edge insights from the social & behavioral sciences with proven practical strategies to create transformative light-bulb moments for leaders and teams in corporations, social impact organizations, and governments. From annual conferences, to leadership retreats, to year-long talent development programs, we partner with organizations to invest in developing the leadership capacity of their people. These sessions draw extensively on Dr. Pearce's Leadership in Organizations course, one of the highest-rated courses at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
Gifted with a shepherd’s heart and a scholar’s mind, Dr. Nicholas Pearce is an internationally sought-after preacher, teacher, and leadership developer whose ministry has been trusted across cultural, generational, and denominational boundaries. A passionate preacher, thoughtful biblical expositor, and proven leadership developer, God has used Dr. Pearce to touch tens of thousands of lives around the world.
A proud native of Chicago’s South Side, Dr. Pearce was raised in the historic Apostolic Church of God (ACOG), where he learned how to serve God and God’s people beginning at the tender age of three. He was baptized at age six, called to the ministry at the age of seven, and entered public ministry at age 17 under the tutelage of his childhood pastor and spiritual father, the legendary Bishop Arthur M. Brazier. In 2012, Dr. Pearce was appointed to the office of Assistant Pastor by Dr. Byron Brazier, making him the youngest minister to serve ACOG in that role since the church’s founding in 1932. Following his tenure at ACOG, Dr. Pearce was privileged to serve Bishop Horace Smith and Chicago’s Apostolic Faith Church In a one-year assignment as their Associate Pastor. His commitment to loving God, loving God’s Word, and loving God’s people has made Dr. Pearce one of his generation’s most beloved and influential Christian voices.
