K. LaFleur-Anders was sitting in the Round Rock High School gym with a handful of other women when the idea for Impact Alliance started. There was no agenda. Just a shared conviction that other women needed real tools, not just inspiration. A few months later she hosted an event that brought more than 100 women leaders together — and the feedback in the room was simple: we need more of this.

She got there by way of Dell, where she spent years in marketing before a workforce reduction turned her side businesses — CoffeeMilk Media and Reset with K — into her full focus. CoffeeMilk Media is a documentary storytelling company built on one question: what positive impact will this story make? She applied three consecutive years for the TEDx license before TED said yes. That persistence is not a footnote — it is the method.

K. is now building TEDx Round Rock Women as a lasting civic institution, screening films about the venture capital gap facing women founders, and continuing to host events where connection leads to action. She is one of the most deliberate builders in the Round Rock community, and she has the receipts to prove it.