April Hennessey

Director of Innovation

Areas of Expertise:

  • Custom Content Design & Development
  • Design Thinking
  • Keynotes
  • Learning Experience Consulting & Design
  • Learning Technologies

April Hennessey, the Director of Innovation and the DEI Practice Lead for Blanchard®, merges her playfulness as a tinkerer in the Innovation Lab with her passion for inclusion and accessibility. An early and discerning adopter of emerging technologies, she empowers organizations to find tools that will most engage their learners and enable them to unleash their individual and collective potential.

April is an end-to-end learning-experience designer, consultant, strategist, and innovator who drives business results through enterprise-aligned, award-winning solutions across the globe in various industries. She challenges her clients to imagine what’s possible, then works with them to discover creative, efficient, well-rounded solutions for their toughest or most ambitious problems.