About Us

Meet Anessa Fike

Founder & CEO

When Anessa left The Motley Fool nearly 10 years ago to start her own business - and have the company as her first client at their request - she wanted to start a consulting firm that did things differently. There are many traditional HR consulting firms out there that can strictly help you with compliance and risk mitigation, but there is so much more to People Operations and Talent today, especially post-COVID. Fike + Co specializes in creative solutions that work for the business AND for the people IN the business. The two have been mutually exclusive for too long. People and Talent teams can be profit centers instead of cost centers, if they think strategically.

At Fike + Co, Anessa and her team of People and Talent professionals work with companies to tailor their work for what THAT company or organization needs. If you’re looking for templates, you are in the wrong place. Each company and its culture is unique because the company’s people are unique, so you won’t find a one-size-fits-all consulting approach here.

Creating excellent workplace cultures, strengthening employee engagement, and increasing company productivity run through Anessa’s veins. She believes that the next 10 years will look drastically different in terms of work and how people work than it has the last 50 years - and work is ripe for a revolution. We will see demand skyrocket and supply fall as people continue to leave the workforce.

The Revolution of Work is here, and Fike + Co is at the forefront of helping to determine how we all work differently.

Quick Facts:

  • Anessa has led more than 100 companies worldwide through scaling efforts in various stages of business from seed round series to Series A- D to mergers and acquisitions to pre-IPO.

  • She has served as Chief People Officer, VP People & Talent, and/or Head of People at 12+ tech companies and has not only helped to scale revenue at these organizations but has also helped companies boost their Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) efforts to ensure that more people find amazing places to work for them.

  • With a Master of Arts in English from National University and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism plus minors in Business and English from Penn State University, her unique background enables her to understand people and craft internal communication in a way that very few can.

  • Anessa has been named as one of the Most Inclusive HR Influencers for her work toward pushing businesses forward in this area and is also an IDEA Practitioner with NASA.

  • Focused on assisting executives with complex organizational and growth issues, Anessa has also been a force in the growing world of transparent workplace culture, working with anonymous employer review sites including InHerSight and Glassdoor.com.

  • Fike & Co. has become one of the leading HR consulting firms in the United States, and we work with companies in Washington, DC; New York, NY; San Francisco; London, UK; Sydney, Australia; and across the world. Our niche is helping tech startups and organizations grow from under 100 people to hundreds, or even thousands, while your employees still love coming to work every day!

Here’s the thing with Anessa — if you are looking for a “yes woman”, she isn’t it.

She is bold, fierce, sassy when need be, and constantly pushing for a better world for everyone - but mostly for those that look nothing like her. She understands the privilege she has had in her life and society, and tries to use every ounce of it for good. She’s a true ally, and an executive that more leaders should aspire to. Each and every team member she has ever led would follow her into the fire. She’s the type of person that believes radically kind and progressive actions, stacked on top of each other, and done even by a few people can change the world. Her mission for Fike+Co is to create better workplaces where all humans can thrive. She embodies that each and every day.