Nicole Snell

Nicole Snell is an award-winning international speaker, trainer, self-defense expert, and violence prevention educator. She is the CEO/Owner of Girls Fight Back and Empowered Journeys, the world-renowned personal safety and self-defense companies that teach women and people of all gender identities how to live confidently and open up their world while being their own best protector. Nicole is also the founder of Outdoor Defense, her YouTube series that teaches personal safety skills for solo outdoor adventurers. On IG you can find Nicole under her handle @adventuresofnik.
Nicole and her companies have taught millions of people over the last 2 decades through their various interactive programs, keynotes, seminars, and workshops. Nicole’s clients span diverse industries including military, corporate, college, outdoor, tech, Fortune 500, healthcare, athletes, and more both domestically and abroad.

Nicole’s work encompasses a full spectrum of personal safety and self-defense skills, including verbal and physical strategies. What sets her apart is that Nicole emphasizes that self-defense education is about more than physical resistance and provides audiences with a range of applicable strategies that can be used in the outdoors and beyond to set strong boundaries, manage safety, defend oneself, and help survivors heal. Her engaging, compassionate, and evidence-based programs combine audience interaction and research supported strategies to create a safe environment to learn life-saving skills.

Nicole believes that when we are empowered to live our lives freely and confidently, there is no limit to what we can do!