About

Heather’s international career in organizational development, public speaking, human resources, education, cross-culture, multimedia, and advocacy has spanned five continents and multiple fields.

As Executive Director of MESPERO: Impact for Resilience, she consults corporations, governmental groups, educational institutions and other entities on digital transformation, leadership development, employee engagement, change management, strategy, and globalization.

Heather specializes in pandemic-related mental health and emotional wellbeing. In that regard, she is developing Digital Mental Health Communities while consulting various entities about burnout prevention and mitigation.

A firm believer in Impact Tech and the democratization of knowledge, Heather is an expert in virtual learning. She is the founder and CEO of the company behind a popular English-skill online platform and is developing a digital project to build MHPSS capacity in East Africa.

As Director of Development for the International Forum for Understanding, Heather initiates and implements a variety of activities such as the recent Breaking Free from Human Trafficking: An Interactive Event and Exhibition for 2021. Emphasis is on achieving impactful solutions for urgent contemporary challenges.

In that regard, Heather devised multimedia initiatives for the International Forum for Understanding’s COP26 Climate Summit activities in Scotland, also taking a leading role in event-wide planning and execution.

As Executive Director of SDG2030.me, she creates and curates monthly activities around the Sustainable Development Goals. So far, that has included the development of a variety of leading-edge multimedia initiatives and learning architectures.

She has also initiated and organized related conferences, such as: Achieving Gender Equality and Female Empowerment: A Collaborative Vision of SDG 5.

Public outreach is a specialty, whether keynoting at global events, moderating high-level diplomatic panels, guiding technical-expert interactive workshops, or moderating a televised broadcast with an in-person audience of 10,000 people. Her Manhattan-based television interview series has won national awards.