In 2008, after success as an electrical engineer working for others, Kimberly Moore decided to take a leap of faith and start her own firm. Unfortunately, the then-28-year-old couldn't have had worse timing. "I was a kid and had no idea of what a recession was, and I landed right in the middle of it," says the Chicago native.To make ends meet while still keeping her fledging company alive-if only by email address-Moore worked as a barista at Starbucks and other noncompeting jobs. "In 2012,I got the opportunity once again to open my doors, and this time it stuck," she says. Since then, Moore has grown the one-woman operation into a successful consulting engineering firm of about 60 employees with back-to-back years of triple-digit growth. "The reward has paid off more than I could have even imagined." She especially values "the changes in the lives of the people that we hire and how we affect their families, their day-to-day lives and their career paths."
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