April Armstrong is a trusted advisor to senior government and private sector officials. She is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of AHA Insight, a strategic consulting firm that supports top ...view moreApril Armstrong is a trusted advisor to senior government and private sector officials. She is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of AHA Insight, a strategic consulting firm that supports top government officials and corporate executives leading transformational change. For over thirty years, April has worked extensively with senior executives from the White House, nearly every department and agency of the Executive Branch-including the U.S. Intelligence Community, and numerous private sector corporations. Her career focus has been on helping executives develop and implement solutions to problems of national significance, with an emphasis on leading complex, often ground-breaking, change that requires the support of multiple organizations. She has worked with senior leaders and their teams to strengthen trust, build consensus where needed, and effectively address a broad spectrum of cross-cutting issues, including: information technology modernization to secure and protect the national security domain and formulating national policy for crisis management and catastrophic disaster preparedness and response for a wide range of scenarios. Prior to forming her own company, April rose through the ranks to become one of the youngest-and first female-executives at the nation's largest employee-owned research and engineering company, which subsequently became a Fortune 500 company. She is a keynote speaker, certified executive and career coach, and expert facilitator of high-stakes outcomes whose leadership tips have been carried by Forbes, ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC networks. April earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications and French from JMU; and a Master of Science degree in management information systems from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.view less