We are volcanoes.
When we women offer our experience as truth, as human truth, all the maps change.
There are new mountains.
- Ursula K. Leguin

About Nina
Nina Simons is Co-founder and Chief Relationship Officer at Bioneers, and leads its Everywoman’s Leadership program. Throughout her career spanning the nonprofit, social entrepreneurship, corporate, and philanthropic sectors, Nina has worked with nearly a thousand diverse women leaders across disciplines, race, class, age and orientation to create conditions for mutual learning, trust and leadership development.
She co-edited Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart, and authored Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership, with an accompanying discussion guide and embodied practices. The first edition won Gold Nautilus awards in the categories of women, intersectionality and social justice. Both books are being used to inspire and ignite learning in individuals, circles and classrooms.
Nina serves on the Advisory Council for Daughters for Earth, and in 2017, received the Goi Peace Award with her husband and partner Kenny Ausubel, for “pioneering work to promote nature-inspired innovations for restoring the Earth and our human community.” Past honorees include Bill Gates, James Lovelock, and Deepak Chopra.
Speaking
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Writing
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Events
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Nina in Print
Podcasts & Interviews
The Recent Edition of
Nature, Culture & the Sacred:
A Woman Listens for Leadership
is available to purchase!
The world seems to be divided into two kinds of people—those who divide everything into two, and those who don’t. Reading Nature, Culture and the Sacred is a step toward melting this false division into “feminine” and “masculine,” and allowing each of us to become fully human again and at last.
— Gloria Steinem
Earth Altar by Laura Loescher
Incorporating Nature, Culture, and the Sacred by Nina Simons into our graduate-level leadership course has been profoundly transformative. The text invites students to engage with leadership not as a theoretical construct but as an embodied, lived practice which is an expression of how we show up in the world, how we listen, how we relate to and learn from one another, and how we connect with the living systems that sustain us.
Through this book, along with a collection of interviews and talks by Nina Simons, our students explore leadership as a dynamic, relational process rooted in presence, deep compassion, curiosity, and love. The narratives and reflective practices encourage future nurse leaders to discover and move with their own authentic leadership gifts.
In a time of immense complexity in health and healthcare, this approach to leadership is essential. Grounded in reciprocity, humility, and care, it prepares practitioners to help weave an emerging future in which all people and the natural world can flourish.
Heidi Honegger Rogers
Associate Professor, University of New Mexico College of Nursing