CEO · Enterprise Leader · Board Director

The executive who turns
complexity into
momentum.

Built running large, complex enterprises at scale. CEO. Board director. Founder of Astellara. Engaging at the intersection of enterprise leadership, growth, and human-centered leadership.

VP & GM, Amazon Business, multi-billion-dollar P&L
President, ServiceMaster Brands, $2.6B system-wide sales
CEO, Healthcare North America, Sodexo
Harvard Business School · Temple University Executive MBA
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Aster Angagaw
About

The pattern that defines
a career in leadership.

Across every stage of her career at Amazon, ServiceMaster, and Sodexo the same pattern has emerged: entering environments with scale, fragmentation, or transformation pressure, and converting complexity into momentum.

"At my best, I help organizations move from fragmentation to clarity, from complexity to momentum, and from potential to scalable performance."

Aster operates credibly with boards, investors, frontline operators, enterprise customers, and transformation teams simultaneously. Her unique advantage is the integration of enterprise operating discipline, strategic growth, transformation leadership, and relational intelligence, built running complex, multi-billion-dollar organizations.

She holds an Executive MBA from Temple University and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Black Enterprise — Most Powerful Women in Business
Savoy — Top Influential Executive & Corporate Director
Harvard Business School AMP
Career Highlights

Three roles.
Large-scale enterprise
leadership at each.

The operating record that defines Aster's lens: in the boardroom, in advisory work, and at the helm of complex organizations. Not theory. Lived experience at scale.

VP & General Manager
Amazon Business

Led teams across tech and non-tech functions, serving enterprise customers across all US sectors. Managed a multi-billion-dollar P&L with 11 direct reports and drove significant strategic growth outcomes in a fast-moving, high-complexity environment.

$10B+
P&L under management
President
ServiceMaster Brands

Transformed a fragmented division into a high-functioning, fast-growing, and profitable organization. Navigated complex P&L management through the COVID-19 pandemic and led strategic positioning that resulted in a successful $1.6B divestiture.

$2.6B
System-wide sales under leadership
CEO, Healthcare North America
Sodexo

Full P&L responsibility for the healthcare segment providing food, facilities, and clinical technology management to top-rated hospitals and children's oncology centers across the US and Canada. Member of the Global Healthcare Executive Team.

Fortune 500
Scale of enterprise led

The flywheel that
compounds credibility,
access, and value.

Aster operates at the intersection of enterprise transformation, technology-enabled services, and human-centered leadership. Four connected platforms, each one strengthening the others. This is not a portfolio of activities. It is a system designed to compound.

01
Enterprise Leadership

Leading large-scale organizations and P&Ls creates measurable outcomes, operating rigor, and executive credibility that fuels every other part of the flywheel.

02
Credibility & Access

Enterprise success expands access to boards, investors, PE relationships, and the quality of conversations that aren't available to advisors who haven't held the seat.

03
Thought Leadership

Books, keynotes, frameworks, and executive perspectives convert operating experience into scalable intellectual capital, with reach that extends beyond any direct role.

04
Astellara Platform

Astellara pairs Fortune 500 operating experience with a curated network of senior executives to turn strategy into measurable results, with operators in the room, not on the side.

Astellara

Most strategies
don't fail.
Most executions do.

Astellara pairs Fortune 500 operating experience with a curated network of senior executives to help enterprise organizations, public, PE-owned, or private, turn strategy into measurable results, whether the pressure comes from an ownership timeline or a board mandate.

Every engagement starts with AsteClear™ to diagnose where execution is actually breaking, then a Curated Advisor Pod is assembled to match that specific problem. Senior operators, not a generalist team. That system, not any one person's calendar, is what makes the outcome repeatable.

Diagnose

We identify exactly where execution is breaking down, often where alignment was only presumed, not actual.

Assemble

We build a Curated Advisor Pod for your specific situation, senior operators, not a generalist team.

Activate

We activate your plan and stay accountable to the milestones you set.

AI-Enabled Operating Intelligence

Intelligent tools that amplify operator judgment, accelerating pattern recognition across leadership transitions and organizational challenges. AI surfaces the data. Our advisors supply the judgment.

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Built by Operators, for Operators
The Pod Advantage

We are not a bench of independent advisors you happen to be able to book. Every engagement starts with AsteClear™ to diagnose where execution is actually breaking, then a Curated Advisor Pod is assembled to match that specific problem.

AsteClear™

The entry point. A structured diagnostic that finds where execution is actually breaking, not just where strategy is unclear.

Outcome-led Delivery

Shared accountability and measurable milestones, with senior operators in the room throughout.

Curated Advisor Pods

Cross-functional senior operators, assembled per engagement, matched to your specific challenge.

Board Service & Executive Advisory

Strategic insight
in the boardroom.

Aster brings the rare combination of operational depth and strategic breadth that boards require in a period of technological disruption and enterprise transformation. She provides guidance on governance, growth strategy, AI readiness, and long-term value creation.

Her board perspective is grounded in decades of P&L ownership, enterprise customer management, and leading organizations through change. Not theory, but lived operating experience at scale. She has served on the boards of Owens & Minor (NYSE: OMI) and Lucid Diagnostics.

Board Inquiry

For CEOs navigating
transformation.

Aster works directly with CEOs and senior executives leading organizations through growth inflections, technology modernization, or strategic repositioning. The work is tailored, direct, and grounded in operational reality.

Aster works directly with CEOs and senior executives navigating transformation, growth, and complexity, as an operator who has led at the same scale.

Advisory Inquiry
Keynote Speaking

Ideas that move
organizations forward.

Aster speaks from the operating room, not the lecture hall. Her keynotes bring the pattern recognition of a career leading complex enterprises to the questions audiences are navigating right now, including AI, transformation, growth, and human-centered leadership at scale.

Book Aster to Speak
Leading in the Age of AI

How organizations can embrace AI-enabled modernization without sacrificing the human operating model that drives sustainable performance.

The Transformation Playbook

Hard-won frameworks for moving organizations from fragmentation to momentum, drawn from billion-dollar transformations across industries.

Human-Centered Leadership as Competitive Advantage

Why the organizations that scale performance without losing humanity will win, and what it takes to build them.

We Are So Much More — Women, Leadership & Enterprise Excellence

The seven dimensions of holistic success, a practical framework for every leader navigating performance, purpose, and impact, grounded in the stories of nineteen remarkable global executives featured in Aster's book.

We Are So Much More by Aster Angagaw
Intellectual Capital

A framework for
holistic leadership success.

We Are So Much More explores the journey of achieving holistic success in leadership and in life. Drawing on the stories of nineteen remarkable global executives, it presents the Seven Dimensions of Success, a practical framework for navigating performance, purpose, and impact simultaneously. The framework applies to every leader, regardless of gender, industry, or stage of career.

The book is one expression of Aster's broader intellectual platform: the conviction that scalable performance and human flourishing are not in tension. They are complementary, and the organizations that understand this will win.

"Aster realistically showcases the challenges and determination these women possessed to reach the top of their careers, and provides a practical roadmap for organizations to develop their talent pipeline."

Lorraine Hariton — President & CEO, Catalyst

"A must-read for both men and women. The seven key dimensions are so important and resonate deeply."

Kimber Maderazzo — Chairman, C200

"Aster Angagaw's book We Are So Much More is on point and transcends more than the corporate world."

Gwen Bingham — Retired US Army Lieutenant General (three-star)
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The right conversation
starts here.

If you are working on something that requires this kind of leadership, reach out directly.

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