Awais Sheikh is a strategic advisor that has shaped modernization efforts for large scale public, private, and nonprofit organizations, including numerous civilian and military Federal agencies, through establishing trusted relationships with senior leaders, and leading diverse teams to execute transformation efforts. Awais served as the Head of Strategic Planning and Execution Management focusing on strategic growth for the largest Public Sector sales organization within Amazon Web Services, advising executives overseeing multi-billion dollar revenue targets. Previously, he served as the Capability Development Lead for MITRE’s Business Innovation Capability, MITRE’s approach to delivering approaches such as design thinking and lean startup to internal and sponsor customers through research, development of toolkits and collateral, and providing subject matter expertise for MITRE and our sponsors. Awais also has experience in business process management and agile strategy and coaching. He is a published expert in the areas of business innovation and design thinking and the winner of the Eugene M. DeLoatch Legacy Award winner at the 2019 BEYA STEM Conference for his career and nonprofit accomplishments.

In 2023, Awais founded Introspect Strategy Consulting to bring his unique skillset of developing and executing strategy through dialog and facilitation to help enterprises, nonprofits, and government agencies meet their challenges.