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Heather Berthoud, a Black person, smiles at the camera

With 25 years in organization effectiveness, Heather Berthoud is a thoughtful and trusted partner to organizational and community leaders. She combines a passion for social justice with a focused practical results-orientation that improves leaders’ and organizations’ ability to accomplish their goals, learn, and enjoy. Clients and colleagues describe her as insightful, fun, straightforward, challenging and supportive.

Heather’s commitment to her clients’ success means that she co-creates lasting change for leaders and organizations. To work with her is to think anew and to create solutions that endure. Because she listens intently and brings coherence to seemingly unrelated matters, leaders articulate their full aspirations. As a result, clients become clearer about their current situation and goals. She provides exceptional value by identifying the essence of issues and then providing models and perspectives that clients can apply themselves. She brings lightness and depth to often challenging situations.

Her clients include Advocates for Youth, American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), Center for Community Change, the Interfaith Alliance, Miriam’s House, NARAL Prochoice America, and Save Darfur Coalition. In addition to her consulting practice, she is faculty for the American University/NTL Institute Masters in Organization Development and a Professional Associate at the Gestalt International Study Center.

Prior to her consulting practice, she was responsible for organization development and curriculum design and delivery for the nationwide network of NARAL Prochoice America. She also directed a grassroots mobilization program for Citizen Action. More recently, she has led several development programs including Leading Nonprofit Organizations for the Gestalt International Study Center, the Practitioners Program with the Center for Human Systems, and numerous workshops on planning, diversity, and leadership.  She has also authored several publications on diversity, planning, training and consulting.

Heather is a life-long learner whose education includes Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania; Master of Science in Organization Development from American University/NTL Institute; certification to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI); nearly 20 years as a student and instructor of martial arts and 8 years studying yoga; and lessons learned while hiking and biking.