In addition, she offers courses, executive coaching, and consulting for personal, professional, and spiritual development. She delivers practical tools backed by science in innovative and entertaining ways that are memorable and transformative. 

Dr. April is a dreamer who lives a life of adventure – from dancing tango in Argentina to a 40-day tour of castles and cathedrals across Europe. She is a marathon runner and launched the P31 spiritual fitness challenge to celebrate and empower women. She is passionate about helping others break through fear and limiting beliefs so they can go after their dreams and live the story they want to tell.

Few of us realize how we and those we lead are still being affected by past negative experiences with leadership—or how we can accelerate performance by addressing leadership injuries.

Drawing on more than a decade of clinical expertise working with combat veterans, Dr. April Minatrea adapts techniques used to heal invisible injuries from the battlefield to the boardroom and beyond.

By learning to remedy and prevent leadership injuries, we can create healthy corporate cultures and high-performing teams that succeed with every player at full strength.

Learning Objectives

• Identify signs and symptoms of leadership injuries – including the three most common patterns you are likely to see affecting your team
• Learn the five-step process for healing leadership injuries – using pain of the past as fuel to become better and stronger than ever
• Discover five keys shifts for becoming a restorative leader who heals & protects others from leadership injuries – building a lasting legacy of leadership

This entertaining keynote and accompanying workshop series are appropriate for: 

• Organizations looking to increase engagement from their teams and customers
• Audiences seeking inspiration, motivation, and practical tools for going after personal goals and dreams

Story matters. Without the right narrative to keep us focused and motivated, distraction and disengagement can keep us from our goals and kill our dreams. Gallup reports 77% of the workforce is disengaged – costing an estimated $8.8 trillion. 

But when you cast vision with a compelling story that includes a meaningful mission and a hero mindset, working toward goals becomes an epic adventure! Employees engage – and so do customers. 

Boost productivity and profits by leveraging the science of psychology, wrapped in the fun of film-making. Gain tools to sharpen your vision and mission, develop strategies for success, and forge mental toughness for overcoming obstacles. Discover increased clarity and confidence that accelerate performance and achievement.

Learning Objectives

• Create a clear, compelling vision that invites team and customer engagement by igniting the imagination 
• Crush goals with a three-part framework based on the psychology of hope
• Gain four practical tools to immediately bolster belief in yourself and propel you toward success

Self-talk can make or break mental health, which in turn affects well-being, relationships, performance, and productivity. Spirituality also plays a role in mental health – influencing our self-concept and the narrative that runs through our minds throughout the day. 

This fun, interactive talk wiIl help you take control of your thoughts and silence the chatter associated with stress and self-sabotage. Gain practical tools for telling the difference between “heavenly chocolate” and “poo from hell!“ Learn, laugh, and leave with memorable tips for self-talk that sparks joy, hope, and peace.

Learning Objectives 

• Identify three red flags for filtering thoughts, helping you stop self-sabotage 
• Use your body’s physical cues to upgrade your thought life 
• Practice thought-screening with the hilarious game “Is It Chocolate Or Is It Poo?” 
• Find freedom by flushing negative thoughts and flipping the script forever