Wendy Angst

Wendy Angst is the Neumann Family Director of the Powerful Means Initiative and Professor of Management & Organization at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. She also directs the Impact Consulting Minor, creating experiential learning opportunities that empower students to drive social impact.
Since joining Notre Dame in 2010, Wendy has taught courses in innovation, design thinking, strategy, consulting, and entrepreneurship. She founded the Powerful Means Initiative, which engages students in multi-semester projects tackling pressing global challenges. Her work with Saint Bakhita’s Vocational Training Center in Uganda, featured in Notre Dame’s What Would You Fight For? campaign, focuses on advancing education and entrepreneurship to create pathways out of poverty.
Wendy also teaches in Milan at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart and serves on Notre Dame’s Global Advisory Committee for Sub-Sahara Africa. She has been recognized as a Poets & Quants Favorite Business Professor and is a recipient of multiple teaching awards, including Mendoza’s Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and the Joe & Gina Prochaska Family Teaching Award. A former healthcare entrepreneur, she previously led CapMed, a pioneer in electronic personal health records.