about ANGELA
ENTREPRENEUR, AUTHOR & SPEAKER
Angela Devlen is a multi-disciplinary founder, author, and impact investor, focused on the intersection of resilience, leadership, and technology. She has established several grassroots micro-enterprises, non-profits, and for-profit companies.
Angela often shares an intimate portrait of her journey that illustrates how our past threads through our lives, the choices we make, and who we become. Her story asks us, even in the face of loss, to examine who we are and what we are meant to do.
She aims to show us what’s possible, even when it feels like we're being asked to overcome our hardest challenges. She shares inspiring stories of those who have shaped her perspectives on resilience and leadership.
She offers a roadmap for navigating change and healing, and an opportunity to examine everything so that we may align with what matters most to us in our work and our lives.
HOW IT STARTED
“At 19, I hitchhiked from New Brunswick, Canada, to New York City with $17 and didn't know a soul.”
What followed was thirty years of building businesses, non-profits, and social enterprises. Her work has taken her around the globe, including Costa Rica, Haiti, India, China, and Nepal, and has led projects in agriculture, disaster risk reduction, and women’s health. She has also responded to several disasters nationally and internationally. Angela served as CEO for 15 years at Wakefield Brunswick, a healthcare consulting firm she founded that advises healthcare organizations on risk and resiliency.
Through all of it — the losses, the pivots, the moments of starting over — the thread has always been the same. Figuring out what actually sustains us. Not just what gets us through.
That is the story Angela brings to every stage, every page, and every room she walks into. It is less about what she has achieved and more about what she has learned — and her belief that none of it should be gatekept.
