About Kimberly.
Helping women lead differently, with confidence, boundaries, and power that feels like their own.
There’s a kind of leadership women rarely talk about. The invisible kind.
The kind where you sense the tension in a room before anyone names it, smooth the edges before they scrape, and carry home the emotional leftovers no one else notices.
I know it because I’ve lived it.
Women are praised for being steady, flexible, and selfless, even on the days when we are holding up more than any job description ever promised. We absorb what others avoid. We keep things moving. And the system quietly thanks us by pretending none of it ever happened.
For years, I led high-performing teams in male-dominated industries. I was the calm in the storm, the reliable one, the person who could “handle it.” Until one day I realized I wasn’t leading. I was compensating.
The cost never showed up in a spreadsheet, but it showed up everywhere else, in my body, my boundaries, and my voice.
That moment of clarity changed everything.
Today my work is about helping women lead differently. I help them see the patterns that shape their work, set boundaries that hold, and lead with confidence that comes from understanding the whole system, not performing for it.
It is not about balance or resilience. It is about redefining what leadership means and building careers and cultures where women do not have to shrink, contort, or disappear to succeed.
I do this work because I know what it is like to fight for a seat at the table, and I know how transformative it is to finally sit down.
We’ve been trained to prove our worth by fixing what others break, to smooth the edges of chaos and call it leadership.
Professional Background.
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I have spent twenty years leading inside industries known for their complexity, including real estate, mortgage, and technology.
Today, I serve as a Program Director for a company recognized on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list, where I oversee product strategy, operations, and organizational performance for large-scale business initiatives.
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I am the Founder and CEO of my own company, where I create programs and frameworks that help women lead differently and help organizations build healthier, more equitable cultures.
My work brings together years of corporate experience and personal insight to design systems that honor both ambition and humanity.
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Before founding my own company, I served as a Vice President with extensive experience in operations, customer management, and people leadership across several Fortune 500 companies.
Over the years, I have led multi-million-dollar transformation initiatives, redefined operational strategy, and built high-performing teams across departments.
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My work lives at the intersection of business architecture and human leadership. I help organizations transform systems while staying connected to the people inside them.
The work I am proudest of is not found on balance sheets. It is the people who discovered their own courage and clarity along the way.
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I am currently pursuing my MBA in Business Architecture at Penn State University, deepening my ability to design systems that align structure with purpose.
Continuous learning is part of how I lead and teach, integrating strategy, empathy, and real-world experience to create sustainable change.
Speaking, Mentorship, and Writing.
I speak and write about the unspoken realities of leadership: the emotional labor, the unseen bias, and the quiet courage it takes for women to lead authentically.
Over the years, I have had the privilege of mentoring many professionals, including women finding their voice in leadership and men who want to champion them better. It is some of the most meaningful work I do. I love watching people shift from exhaustion to empowerment and from self-doubt to self-trust.
Through my talks and mentorship, I give leaders the tools to lead differently, with confidence, clarity, and power that feels like their own.
My upcoming book expands on these ideas. It weaves real stories from inside corporate culture into a guide for building leadership that is human, honest, and sustainable.
If you have ever carried it all and are ready to lead differently, you are exactly where you need to be.
Let’s redefine leadership together.
kimberlyangellone@gmail.com
(724) 205.0859
Pittsburgh, PA 15116