The strategist
behind Axiom.
No junior associates. No 200-page reports that sit in a drawer. You get Nicole — 15+ years of enterprise strategy, applied to businesses like yours, at a pace you can actually act on.
Axiom Advisory
- Wharton School — Chief Strategy Officer · Executive Presence & Influence · Corporate Governance Certificates
- CPA — Certified Public Accountant (TX), Active
- Google AI Essentials — 7-Course Certificate
- AI Fundamentals & Prompt Engineering — Abbott
- Research Methodologies — Queen Mary University of London
- Ernst & Young | Financial Accounting Advisory Services — Management Consultant
- Grantham & Grantham — Founder & Principal
- Abbott Laboratories — Head of Strategy, Growth & Operations
- Wharton School — Executive Education
CSO · Executive Presence & Influence · Corporate Governance - Rice University — MBA, Strategy & Finance
- University of Miami — Master of Accounting
- Florida State University — Dual B.S., Economics & Finance
Nicole Grantham founded Axiom Advisory on a straightforward premise: the financial clarity and operational discipline that make large organizations run well shouldn't be reserved for companies that can afford a Big Four retainer. She built Axiom to bring that same rigor — and the AI tools that now power it — directly to SMB owners and leadership teams who are ready to grow with intention.
Her path to Axiom started the hard way. She founded and ran her own consulting firm before her career in enterprise strategy — which means she knows what it actually feels like to make payroll decisions at midnight, wear every hat, and wonder whether the strategy in your head will ever become reality in your business. That experience never left her, and it shapes how she works with every client.
From there, she spent seven years within Ernst & Young's specialty Financial Accounting & Advisory Services practice in Austin, advising clients from high-growth startups to Fortune 500 companies on strategic transformation, IPO readiness, and operational scaling. It's where she developed the financial discipline and analytical frameworks — paired with her Rice MBA, Master of Accounting, and active CPA license — that underpin everything she does today.
Most recently, Nicole served as Director of Global Strategic Innovation & Operations at Abbott Laboratories, directing $1B+ in global investment assessments, building the in-house analytics infrastructure that eliminated $1M in annual vendor spend, and leading the operating cadences that kept a high-growth medtech division aligned across three continents. She also earned three Wharton executive certificates — Chief Strategy Officer, Executive Presence & Influence, and Corporate Governance — and became a hands-on AI practitioner, deploying automation and analytics tooling across enterprise workflows long before it was a buzzword.
She's not a theorist. She's a numbers person who speaks plain English, builds things that actually get used, and has worked inside enough businesses — from scrappy startups to billion-dollar divisions — to know the difference between a strategy that looks good in a deck and one that works on the ground. If your business has a visibility problem, a margin problem, or an "I'm the bottleneck" problem, that's exactly where she starts.
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I started my career as a small business owner. I know what it's like to wear every hat, make payroll decisions at midnight, and wonder whether the strategy in your head will ever become reality in your business. Austin owners get this. We didn't move here to grind ourselves into the ground.
After years advising billion-dollar portfolios and building enterprise analytics functions, I realized something that kept me up: the mid-market was being profoundly underserved. Smart, ambitious owner-operators — the ones actually building Austin's economy — were getting generic advice from firms that didn't know their business or their city.
Big-box consulting firms weren't built for founders. Their models assume unlimited time, unlimited budget, and a team of internal operators ready to absorb a 200-page report. Most growing businesses have none of those things.
I founded Axiom to bring that same precision — the financial rigor, the strategic frameworks, the AI-powered execution — to founders and CEOs who are ready to grow. Without the enterprise price tag. Without the shelf-ware. Without the condescension.
Axiom isn't the right fit for everyone. If you're looking for a vendor to hand things off to and disappear, that's not us. We work best with owners who are ready to engage, move fast, and actually implement.