About The Founder
Anjel Hartwell
I created Wickedly Smart Women® as a place for a very specific kind of woman.
She’s the woman who is called to create a bigger impact than she’s ever going to be allowed to make in her corporate position and who is no longer willing to ignore that calling.
I’ve spent over four decades in business: building, leading, advising, and evolving across multiple industries. I understand structure, money and most of all what it takes to create something that actually works. In a world where women in the US weren’t allowed to get business loans without a male co-signer until 1988.
Over the last 7 years I’ve been talking with a lot of women. Women with extraordinary experience reaching a point where the next step wasn’t a promotion or a pivot inside someone else’s system, instead it was the decision to build something of their own.
I created Wickedly Smart Women® as a place for a very specific kind of woman.
She’s the woman who is called to create a bigger impact than she’s ever going to be allowed to make in her corporate position and who is no longer willing to ignore that calling.
I’ve spent over four decades in business: building, leading, advising, and evolving across multiple industries. I understand structure, money and most of all what it takes to create something that actually works. In a world where women in the US weren’t allowed to get business loans without a male co-signer until 1988.
Over the last 7 years I’ve been talking with a lot of women. Women with extraordinary experience reaching a point where the next step wasn’t a promotion or a pivot inside someone else’s system, instead it was the decision to build something of their own.
It’s the decision to build something of their own- not small projects or side ideas, but work that actually reflects who they are and what they know. Work that creates real impact and holds its value over time. The women I’ve spoken with are building consultancies grounded in their thinking, their lived experience, and their way of creating results.
Wickedly Smart Women® exists because that path is rarely supported well. There is plenty of information about starting a business. There are plenty of pathways out of corporate and into another set of constraints working at a big name consulting or advisory firm. What has been missing is a brand intentionally structured for high-achieving women considering consulting after corporate and for women who have decided to build a premium independent consultancy.
This is about answering the question: what comes after corporate, and how to make that transition into work that is owned, viable, and aligned with both practical realities and internal knowing. It is also about continuing to build on the progress women have already made.
Wickedly Smart Women® exists because that path is rarely supported well. There is plenty of information about starting a business. There are plenty of pathways out of corporate and into another set of constraints working at a big name consulting or advisory firm. What has been missing is a brand intentionally structured for high-achieving women considering consulting after corporate and for women who have decided to build a premium independent consultancy.
This is about answering the question: what comes after corporate, and how to make that transition into work that is owned, viable, and aligned with both practical realities and internal knowing. It is also about continuing to build on the progress women have already made.
The Get Started Consulting Clarity Conversation is a private, fee-based strategic assessment for experienced corporate women who believe consulting may be what they want to do after corporate and want professional perspective before committing to that direction.
The Clarity Conversation is designed to discern whether consulting is actually an appropriate path for your experience, circumstances and objectives and concludes with a professional recommendation about the appropriate next step.
The Clarity Conversation is designed to discern whether consulting is actually an appropriate path for your experience, circumstances and objectives and concludes with a professional recommendation about the appropriate next step.