About Angela
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As the CEO, Founder and Principal Consultant of Mindpower Strategic, Angela Cooper helps shape workplace cultures that empower, engage, and energize people. With a background in strategic planning, organizational communication and change management, Cooper has 25+ years of experience leading workplace culture transformation.
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An award-winning leader and former Chief Diversity Officer in Corporate America, Angela now serves as a culture strategist, change architect, and trusted thought partner for forward-thinking business leaders who are invested in shaping healthier, higher-performing cultures where everyone can thrive.
Official Recognition
There are dedicated professionals who strive each and every day to make our communities and workplaces more diverse, equitable and inclusive for all. They've dedicated themselves to enhancing policies, processes, workplace cultures and perspectives in meaningful ways. They are passionate about what they do and believe deeply in the core values of diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility and justice. Angela Cooper is honored to be one of them.
2022
2020
Top 100 Diversity Officers
National Diversity Council
Top 10 Women in Diversity
2020
Diversity Global Magazine
Top 50 Chief Diversity Officers
National Diversity Council
Ten Outstanding Young Omahans (TOYO)
2014
Omaha Jaycees
The Mindpower Philosophy
Our thoughts have incredible power. The beliefs and values we hold show up in our behaviors, which lead to outcomes that can make us or break us. The most profound aspect of this reality is that we can intentionally choose our mindset.
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Choosing to face the potentially limiting mindsets we've absorbed and inherited takes courage. Choosing to unlearn and relearn is uncomfortable. But deciding to be more, to adopt and commit to a mindset rooted in the core values of inclusion, equity, and belonging unlocks the power of our collective potential.
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Mindpower Strategic exists to help organizations transform their cultures and empower their people to accelerate progress toward their purpose. And it all starts with mindset.
Angela is an energetic, intelligent, and insightful thought partner who brings the kind of clarity and structure organizations need to accelerate their culture-shaping progress. She is intuitive and has a great read on people and organizations. Further, she understands that change management is at the heart of DEI work and leverages techniques that both inspire personal growth and ignite systems-level change.
—Amy Yaroch, Executive Director, Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition
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