April Anthony
Alex Brogan
Most people build careers by avoiding risk. April Anthony built a $750 million healthcare empire by embracing the moments when everything went wrong.
Anthony never intended to become an entrepreneur. Fresh out of PricewaterhouseCoopers, she wanted a family-friendly controller position — something stable, predictable, safe. She found work at a company that owned four businesses, including a struggling home health agency that was hemorrhaging money.
When her boss asked for her assessment, Anthony delivered the kind of blunt diagnosis that ends careers: "This is going to get worse."
What happened next changed everything.