April Allen

I’m a strategic HR leader and trusted advisor to C-suite and senior leaders, with 20+ years of HR experience across aerospace, engineering, manufacturing, and high-growth tech.

In my Director, HR Business Partners role at Aurora Flight Sciences (a Boeing company), I built and scaled an HRBP team to support ~1,000 employees across multiple U.S. engineering/manufacturing sites and an international site. I lead employee relations, investigations, and ethics programs, and I serve as an emergency/threat point-of-contact to coordinate response, communications, and post-incident actions.

I partner directly on workforce planning, succession strategy, and organizational design—redesigning leadership spans to accelerate decision-making and clarify accountabilities. I also direct post-acquisition organization redesigns to eliminate redundancies, align roles to strategy, and realize operational efficiencies.

My approach blends neuroscience-informed leadership and mental-health initiatives to improve psychological safety and manager effectiveness, contributing to a 6% retention improvement. I own the full-cycle performance management lifecycle (PIPs, PDPs, promotion decisions, and market compensation cycles) and have delivered measurable impact through leadership development and improved documentation frameworks that reduced employee relations incidents and documentation deficiencies by 25%.