Anessa Fike

Anessa Fike has been at the forefront of Fractional HR for more than a decade, in fact, we're pretty sure she started the Fractional HR industry in the US after throwing out other business models that weren't working for too many. In working with more than 125 companies and organizations in more than 30 countries, including NPR and Uber, she has been leading progressive conversations in HR and Talent for 15 years, and has served as Chief People Officer more than 15 times. In fact, she even wrote a book on how we should be thinking about work now and in the next 20 years, and why we absolutely need a revolution of tired practices that continue to drive burnout and disengagement but not much else. As the CEO of Fike+ Co and the bestselling author of The Revolution of Work, Anessa has come to be known as a principled leader who stands up for historically underestimated groups with innovative ideas decades ahead of her time. Anessa has been an angel investor and a product advisor for multiple HR Tech and other tech companies, been a keynote and panel speaker at regional and national conferences, been a guest on many industry podcasts, and has been an IDEA Practitioner with NASA before the program was shut down in 2025. She is also COO and Co-Founder of My NIL Brand, a tech startup in the NIL sports space.