April Sabral

April Sabral served as a senior retail executive for over 25 years, leading sales and operations on three continents UK, USA, and CA, working for brands such as; Apple, Starbucks, Gap, Holt Renfrew, Laura Canada, and DAVIDsTEA. In 2018, Sabral decided to take all of her expertise and experience and founded 'retailu' an online leadership development portal for field leaders.

'retailu' develops leadership competencies through micro-sized learning modules and practical activities that store teams can integrate into their week to develop the necessary skills for leading people. She then went on to study and achieved multiple coaching certifications, such as John C. Maxwell, The World Association of business coaching, and is now a member of the Forbes coaching council.

She was named one of the emerging leaders to look out for in the Marquis Who's Who directory in 2019. Following this Sabral wrote her first book and launched April Sabral leadership, introducing leadership tools such as self-coaching cards and a self-development workbook to accompany her book "The Positive Effect". Sabral now coaches, speaks, and facilitates sessions on leadership, specifically the power of positive leadership. In 2022/23 Sabral was named one of the top retail influencers by RETHINK retail, a global media organization. Sabral's LinkedIn following has grown to over 20,000 and is asked by LinkedIn for her perspective on retail, leadership and the power of positivity. Her most recent book "Incurable Positivity" reached amazon best Sellers on new releases in the self help section on release.