Leela Cosgrove

Activist, Business leader, Business mentor, Change agent, Connector, Consultant, Entrepreneur, Investor, Marketer, Sales specialist, Writer/Editor

Leela Cosgrove wasn’t supposed to become a successful entrepreneur. She grew up in a housing commission suburb in Brisbane, Australia, surrounded by violence, drug use and the ongoing rhetoric that she would amount to nothing. She refused to submit to the expectations set for her, defying the odds and escaping the cycle of poverty she saw around her. She founded Strategic Anarchy, a boutique B2B consulting firm; and Iron Cage, a revolutionary sales intelligence software that is changing the face of B2B sales. Leela is also the founder of Australia’s largest Witchcraft education and supply company, High Priestess, and has spent 25 years working as a professional spellcaster, tarot reader, psychic and healer. Leela: was named in the top 50 fast growth companies in Australia and top 8 of Female Founded Companies in the Asia Pacific Region; has been named as one of Australia’s top 25 female entrepreneurs; is the Australian Chapter Leader for the Dell Womens Entrepreneur Network and sits on their Global Advisory Council; and has presented to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and other organisations about activism in business.

Pop culture, the golden age of tv, tattoos, feminist history, egyptology, science fiction, the re-population of the Australian Dingo.

A society where The Goddess has been stripped out of mythology and religion, is a society which denies women the ability to see themselves reflected in the divine.

Cooking (but mostly just because if no one knows then expectations are limited)