Dr. Danielle ‘Nell’ Thompson, CCC-SLP

Danielle “Nell” Thompson, PhD, CCC-SLP, is a literacy leader with a language bias, leadership coach, and founder of The Transformative Reading Teacher Group and its high-impact Big Sky Literacy Summit. She develops educators and leaders who recognize language as the foundation of literacy and champions the paradigm shift needed to align assessment and instructional systems accordingly. A former SLP and educator whose journey spans Alaska to Mississippi, Dr. Nell brings clarity, humanity, and scientific rigor to helping schools rethink and elevate practice. Certified in Maxwell Leadership and Brendon Burchard High Performance Coaching, she is committed to building schools where people thrive and every child becomes a reader.