Strategic Thought Partner. Generative Facilitator. Complexity Nerd. Anthropologist. Empowering Coach. Project Management Powerhouse. Emergent Learning Enthusiast.

Heather brings to Convive her passion for emergent learning, coaching, and creating and supporting highly effective organizations. She encourages and accompanies our clients to safely explore and experiment with different paths to impact and to examine outcomes and unlock insights. And – most importantly – to translate learning into strategy and action. As a seasoned programme and project manager, Heather is deeply committed to optimizing organizational operations. 

Heather is a practitioner of Human Systems Dynamics and passionate about design for impact on ‘wicked issues’ – problems that arise from massively entangled systems without possibility of a quick win or lasting fix. She is particularly interested in emergent learning to deepen understanding of both an organization’s tactical strengths and of the landscape in which it operates. As coach and facilitator, she firmly believes in the power of people to change their worlds and seeks to support that potential through generative conversation that illuminates peoples’ own understanding of the challenges they are facing and solutions that will work for them.

Having worked her entire career in the social justice sector, Heather is deeply committed to helping organizations be as effective and impactful as possible. Heather worked for many years at Amnesty International, in London and Hong Kong, in various roles including as Strategy Development Manager and as Senior Advisor to the global movement on internal conflict and organizational development. Since 2022, she has accompanied global, regional, and local human rights and humanitarian organizations through change and growth, developing strategy and structure, people and teams, knowledge and learning.

Heather currently loves learning about: 

• Facilitative practices that allow us to access and learn from diverse, under-represented, or historically marginalized ways of knowing and doing

• Psychology and anthropology, or why we humans do as we do