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Audacia Strategies helps companies realize their boldest initiatives and transformational vision

About us

Audacia Strategies makes change matter. We maximize the value of your transformation by helping you communicate with authority and empathy to drive performance and create competitive advantage. 

Bold Actions, Audacious Results.

We help businesses change, lead, and succeed. We deliver more than pretty presentations. Our team of experienced leaders rolls up our sleeves, digs in with your team, and brings measurable results. Our hands-on approach offers you exceptional curated strategic and technical expertise to meet your audacious goals.

Let’s work together to take your next bold step.

Our Services

Organizational Transformation &
Change Management

Stakeholder Insights and Engagement

M&A and Transaction Communications

Financial Communications

Value Proposition and Brand Alignment

Voice of the Customer
Voice of the Employee

Meet Our Founder And CEO

Kathryn “Katy” (Hew) Herr

Katy has spent her career helping organizations – large and small – that are taking bold steps to transform. She has successfully led teams through mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and spin-offs, reorganizations, executive transitions, crisis events, rebranding, and much more.

She launched Audacia Strategies in 2015 to help organizations get more “bang for your buck” out of transformation – whether it is planned or unplanned. Having spent years as a client, she brings a practical, roll-up-her-sleeves approach to her engagements. She believes that relationships matter and credibility counts. When you work with Katy you can expect candor, collaboration, and laughter.

Before launching Audacia Strategies, Katy served as Vice President of Investor Relations at Exelis, Inc., a leading global defense and aerospace company. Prior to Exelis, she held roles of increasing responsibility and leadership in Communications, Investor Relations and Business Development with technology, aerospace, and defense firms.

Katy is an active member of the National Investor Relations Institute and was recently recognized as a member of NIRI’s inaugural “40 Under 40” class. In her downtime, you may spot Katy enjoying time with her husband and twin daughters, running through the Nation’s Capital, practicing yoga or Pilates, or planning her next travel adventure.

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Kathryn “Katy” Herr

Katy has spent her career helping organizations - large and small - that are taking bold steps to transform. She has successfully led teams through mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and spin-offs, reorganizations, executive transitions, crisis events, rebranding, and much more.

She launched Audacia Strategies in 2015 to help organizations get more "bang for your buck" out of transformation - whether it is planned or unplanned. Having spent years as a client, she brings a practical, roll-up-her-sleeves approach to her engagements. She believes that relationships matter and credibility counts. When you work with Katy you can expect candor, collaboration, and laughter.

Before launching Audacia Strategies, Katy served as Vice President of Investor Relations at Exelis, Inc., a leading global defense and aerospace company. Prior to Exelis, she held roles of increasing responsibility and leadership in Communications, Investor Relations and Business Development with technology, aerospace, and defense firms.

Katy is an active member of the National Investor Relations Institute and was recently recognized as a member of NIRI's inaugural "40 Under 40" class. In her downtime, you may spot Katy enjoying time with her husband and twin daughters, running through the Nation's Capital, practicing yoga or Pilates, or planning her next travel adventure.

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Our Partners

Audacia Strategies offers a network of specialized partners who bring specific expertise, depth of resource and proven experience. Our partners represent the Audacia Strategies values so you can be sure that we’ll bring our A-team to your transformation effort every day.

Our Certifications

Audacia Strategies is proudly 100% Woman-Owned. Our certifications are just one of the ways that we demonstrate our investment and our commitment to partnering with you to achieve your business or organization’s successful transformation. We are honored to hold certifications from the following Federal, State, Local and Corporate entities.

Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB)

We are certified with the Small Business Administration as a Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB). WOSB certification requires that a business must be 51% or more woman-owned, controlled, operated and managed.

WOSB certification allows us to provide double the benefit to our Federal and prime contractor partners. We can simultaneously provide outstanding transformation services and support their small business/socioeconomic category sub-contracting goals.

Women-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE)

We are certified as a WBE by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). WBENC Certification validates that a business is at least 51 percent owned, controlled, operated and managed by a woman or women. The certification is accepted by more than 1,000 corporations representing America’s some of most respected brands, and many states, cities and government entities.

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