Nikki Silvestri, the founder and CEO of Soil and Shadow, LLC., has had a wide-ranging career that has taken her from presentations at the White House and negotiations with the Environmental Protection Agency to intimate workshops with local businesses and small retail organizing. The recipient of numerous awards, including ELLE Magazine’s Gold Award and OxFam America’s Act Local, Think Global Award, she was named one of The Root’s 100 Most Influential African Americans. Her unique approach to inclusion, leadership, and organizational development takes cues from nature and seeks to build models of “social fertility” to weave them into a Joy and Impact™ framework while attempting to balance the triple bottom line (ecology, economy, and equity).