Sara Thomas is a change leader and strategist with over 25 years of experience leading transformation across Federal agencies and industry including U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department Commerce, IBM, MITRE and Grant Thornton. She served as a strategist and writer of the Department of Veterans Affairs 5-Year Benefits Modernization Plan under 701b of the PACT Act. Sara is an awardee of the 2025 Forum Federal IT 100, the 2024 Inc. 5000, and the 2022 Inc. Best in Business. She is the former CEO of AWL Strategies, LLC and the founder of N+2, LLC.