Rachele Cooper founded Aptive with a goal of leveraging technology and communications to improve organizational performance and support our nation’s Veterans.
With this mission in mind and using skills acquired over an eclectic career — serving in the military, working as an engineer at the Naval Research Lab and leading national marketing and communications campaigns — Rachele and her team offer Aptive’s clients fresh perspectives, unique insights and committed partnership.
She’s led complex, high-profile engagements spanning health promotion and disease prevention, strategic communications, technology transformations and organizational change management. Since forming Aptive her work has impacted health care modernization, the opioid epidemic, Veteran homelessness, suicide prevention, access to care, health technology and national defense. Rachele is a member of the Elev8 Advisory Council.
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U.S. Navy Veteran
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2024 CEO of the Year (Mid-size Business), Washington Exec
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2023 Entrepreneur of the Year, Mid-Atlantic Region, Ernst & Young
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2023 CEO of the Year (Small Business), Washington Exec
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2022 FedHealthIT 100 Awardee
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2020 Leading for Impact, Women in Leadership honoree
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2020 Dream Big Veteran-Owned Business Achievement Award – U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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Change Management Practitioner, Prosci
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M.A., New York University
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B.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan
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