WHAT WARDROBE BRINGS HER SUCCESS? Photo by Erika Doll
By Marie Bradby
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The Gabrielle Union line at New York & Company is Angella’s favorite clothing label.
Her go-to is a structured blazer. “I dress for how I want to be perceived every day,” Angella says. “I am 80 percent of the time in a suit jacket. They go with a great pair of slacks, a skirt, even with a nice pair of curvy slim jeans.” Dress to enhance your shape. Curvy and tall at 5 foot 11, she says, “You can dress for your body style and bring in trendy items with a purse and jewelry.” She loves statement accessories. “I have a set of chunky pearls, and it has about 10 strands. I wore those with a denim shirt and slim fitting jeans, and it took that outfit to the next level without it being like a frumpy jean outfit.”
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ngella Wilson wears lots of hats. She’s a management executive, a college teacher, a businesswoman, and a wife and mother. As program director for KentuckianaWorks, the workforce development board for this seven-county area, she provides strategic guidance on contracts, budgets, and also helps job seekers find jobs and good careers, education, and training. She helps employers meet their workforce needs by connecting them with skilled, qualified employees. “I absolutely love workforce,” says Angella, 41, whose name is pronounced ann-GEL-lah. “I have a chance to provide strategic guidance so that people have a great experience when they come through the door and get the help they need,” she says. “How can we best help this population? We recently received grant money to hire a consultant to provide basic computer training. Not everybody is computer literate.” As an adjunct teacher at Jefferson Community and Technical College, she teaches Achieving Academic Success, a course for first-time college students. “We cover a variety of subjects to make them ready for their college and career experience,” Angella says, including researching salaries, looking at possible jobs one can get with a certain degree, and addressing financial literacy. Angella still operates the Clark Consulting Group, which she started in 2012 to provide financial literacy and career counseling as a consultant for KentuckianaWorks. “I started that out of passion,” she says. “It was an opportunity to help people on a one-on-one level. I counsel individuals who are in some type of career transition. It’s about learning how to network in a successful way, how to utilize their resources, which could be the people that they already know,” says Angella, who with her husband Troy, has two daughters, ages 21 and two years old. Angella’s dressing philosophy is as strategically measured as her work. “For me, it’s about creating a wardrobe that is my signature style — classic with a little bit of modern,” she says. “I like to wear one item that represents how I feel about myself that day. For example, I will wear a black suit with a leopard print shirt. It’s business and professional, but the leopard print makes a powerful statement. Or I will wear a blouse in a bold red. That shows just a little bit of personality for that day.”