Nicole Angiel is Carbon Cutout’s founder and director. 

She’s passionate about sustainability and health and is always seeking ways to cut carbon and waste from her life while influencing her friends and family to follow her lead.

Coach – With training from Inner Life Skills, Nicole has an extensive toolbox for life, health, business, leadership and executive coaching. Her core values are integrity, well-being, environmental responsibility and fulfilling one’s potential. She will guide you to find your inner wisdom, strength and motivation. In partnership with Nicole, you can be empowered to dream big, clear major obstacles, and reach new heights.

Counselor – As a Certified Plant-Based Nutritionist, Nicole has the expertise to advise and coach you at any life stage as you add more plant-based whole foods to your diet. She has a wealth of delicious and wholesome recipes to share, along with tons of tips for eating out, dinner parties and holidays. Eating more plants not only supports your own health, but your family’s, community’s and planet’s health, too.

Consultant – Nicole brings over 20 years of sustainability expertise and scientific training to advise you. She is creative and flexible with a knack for forging paths to success when things are feeling stuck or inefficient. She sees the big picture and then hones in on the little details. 

Her career began as a guide and educator to small businesses and schools to reduce waste and set up recycling and composting. Later, as a management consultant to USEPA and other state and federal agencies, she continued to provide public outreach and develop effective environmental management systems for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, energy and water use, and solid waste in offices and facilities. Nicole then spent 8 years developing innovative new programs for a local climate action nonprofit to support residents and businesses in reducing their carbon footprint through food waste reduction, choosing the healthiest foods for people and planet, and electrifying buildings and vehicles.

Nicole has a master’s in aquatic science and a bachelor’s in biology, as well as a certificate in business strategy. With specific training in ecology, statistics and behavior change, she has a unique perspective and a natural curiosity that leads her to collect information and deeply analyze it. She asks thoughtful questions, thinks about all the possibilities and brings valuable insights that might otherwise be overlooked when problem-solving.