Who We Are
Our Mission
We will create a nourishing community that provides services to female entrepreneurs that will help them with momentum and accountability in their businesses so they can have such thriving businesses and lives that they have no choice but to also empower other women in their communities, and eventually around the world.
Our Vision
Create empowered women who can empower women.
Our Core Values
These are the values we hold ourselves to as a company as well as the values we expect our clients to hold when interacting with one another.
Accountability
We will give support and encouragement and check-in with one another
Community
We will interact with one another and create a sense of belonging
Collaboration
We will exchange ideas, give inspiration, and assist as necessary
Celebration
We will celebrate both wins and losses as it is in the losses where we sometimes learn the biggest lessons
Growth
We will consider our meetings with one another to be food and water for the soul as well as for our businesses so as to grow both personally and professionally
Kindness
We will be kind, generous, and have genuine concern for others and ourselves
April Ackman, Founder
April has an MBA with an emphasis in International Business from St. Louis University in, well uh, St. Louis and a Master Certificate in Business Communication from Harvard. (We all know where that is.) She is also studying for her SHRM-CP exam to get more nerdy initials after her name. (That Human Resources exam has a less than a 70% pass rate, so wish her luck!)
With WP Consulting Group she helps corporate America and start-ups with initializing or revamping their HR processes (hiring plans, job descriptions, interview Qs, handbooks, SOPs, etc.) One of the most recent projects was with Tower Grove Park.
She has hopes of adding more consultants with other business backgrounds. (Click here to see what we have available.)
From a young age (probably 7 or 8) she wanted to own a business, two in fact. It was her dream to own a Chuck E. Cheese and a 7-Eleven. She loved both places as a kid (and still love Slurpees).
She sometimes thinks the entrepreneurial urge is genetic: One grandfather owned two motels and, like most entrepreneurs, dabbled in other ventures. Another grandfather owned a snow cone route (think ice-cream truck but only snow cones) and a commercial cleaning business cleaning strip malls in the morning before they opened.
She loves HR, entrepreneurship, helping people, traveling, spending time near water, cooking, and making sure women thrive. Since she couldn't roll all that into one big hug, she created Mud on My Stilettos, a division of WP Consulting Group that helps women become the powerhouses they're meant to be.
Basically, she created the support system she wishes she would have had when she started her first business in 2016.
Fun-ish facts:
In "WP Consulting Group," the "W" and the "P" come from her grandfather's initials. He was one of the most important men to ever walk into her life.
The division is called "Mud on My Stilettos" because back in 2012 when our founder had a "real job," she was a single mom of two little girls and always running late for work. She would take a short cut everyday from the parking lot to the door to swipe her badge and....would get mud on her stilettos. The idea for Mud on My Stilettos was born and since evolved, but here we are. Now Mud on My Stilettos is all about getting down in the trenches in the mud (getting the work done) while feeling like a badass beautiful woman (stilettos).
Although you can't tell from looking at this site, no, her favorite color is not pink. (Hint: It's purple.)