Angela Puleo is a Performance Improvement coach, consultant, educator, public speaker and the owner of Blairsville Dance Project. A dancer since age 2, Angela started trying to open her own dance studio at age 9. It is likely no surprise that parents were not lined up to sign up their children, so the studio she started in the spare bedroom, Rainbow Connection, was her second business fail. The first was the handwritten worksheets she tried to sell in her front yard at age 6.
Never one to give up, she opened Blairsville Dance in 2006. After getting her MBA, she founded Compass Sterling, a coaching and consulting firm in 2016 and Project Compass Kids in 2020.
She then pursued a neuroscience based coaching certification, which combined with her multiple failures and a cancer diagnosis gave rise to a new skill…finding new ways to look at troublesome things. As it turns out, other people will pay you for that, so she has worked with educational institutions, hospital systems, national non-profits, tech companies and small businesses to help them find new opportunities to make big changes.
Her biggest passion, however, is helping youth develop a self-image that serves them well in dance AND in life. Her goal is to help dancers find their personal power to create their ideal lives, both in and out of the dance studio. Outside of coaching and teaching, she is working with her mother Deborah Adams, a published author, on a series of growth mindset books for young dancers, featuring the loveable, yet oftentimes clumsy, York the Yeti.
In addition to serving as Director of Blairsville Dance, Angela will be teaching Senior Jazz, Senior Hip Hop, Performance Clogging and coaching the Blairsville Dance Force competition group for the 2025-26 dance season.