Anita Meadows is a fractional COO who helps small consulting firms build operations that don’t run through the founder. She steps in when a firm has landed bigger clients than its systems can handle: documenting how the work actually gets done, setting up handoffs that work across contractors, and getting delivery to run without the founder holding every thread.

Anita Meadows is a fractional COO who helps small consulting firms build operations that don’t run through the founder. She steps in when a firm has landed bigger clients than its systems can handle: documenting how the work actually gets done, setting up handoffs that work across contractors, and getting delivery to run without the founder holding every thread. She once turned around a stalled enterprise project that had fallen behind schedule and lost its client’s patience. Anita lives with chronic illness and disability herself, so she designs operations that hold up on the founder’s worst days, not just their best. She hosts How We Work Now, a podcast with disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent business owners about the systems that keep their businesses running.