Organizational Psychologist | Culture Architect | Leadership Strategist
Heather is the Founder and CEO of Lead with Levity, a culture consulting firm known for blending rigorous research, practical strategy, and energizing facilitation. Her work focuses on what she calls the social infrastructure of organizations: trust, psychological safety, connectedness, and levity. When those elements are strong, teams perform. When they erode, performance suffers.
Heather has also built competency-based talent management systems, executive 360-degree feedback programs, climate surveys, leadership development pipelines, and strengths-based succession initiatives across healthcare, higher education, and corporate environments.
Over the past fifteen years, Heather has partnered with Fortune 500 companies, universities, nonprofits, and high-growth organizations. One of her most notable projects was the design and expansion of Procter & Gamble’s Power Pairs onboarding program, created to accelerate trust between new hires and their managers. Participants who completed the program experienced up to a 50 percent reduction in new hire turnover compared to non-participants. The program was expanded from North America Sales to global adoption as the gold standard for strengthening early manager-employee relationships.
Other notable projects include:
Her work has earned national recognition, including:
In addition to her consulting work, Heather serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Saint Louis University, where she teaches Contemporary Organizational Leadership at the graduate level. She previously served as Director of Learning and Development at Integral Care and held a senior organizational effectiveness role at Saint Louis University and training evaluation role at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Earlier in her career, she analyzed large-scale consumer data for national retail brands including Walmart, Target, CVS, and Kimberly-Clark.
Heather holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Saint Louis University and a B.S. in Psychology from Texas Woman’s University. She is certified in Prosci Change Management, Hogan Assessments, Everything DiSC, and Clark Wilson leadership assessments.
She is also the host of the long-running Lead with Levity Podcast and co-author of peer-reviewed research on humor and levity in the workplace published in Organizational Dynamics.
Heather is known for combining intellectual rigor with warmth, clarity, and practical application. Whether facilitating executive strategy sessions or leading frontline team workshops, she creates environments where people feel safe enough to think honestly and bold enough to act decisively.
Outside of her professional work, Heather is a wife and mother who believes deeply in building strong foundations at home and at work. She is deeply inspired by the belief that people perform best when they feel seen, valued, and connected, whether in the boardroom or around the dinner table. Because of this, she is passionate about helping leaders create workplaces where people laugh together, grow together, and win together. Determined to make conversations about trust and leadership more accessible, she launched the Lead with Levity Podcast in 2019, recording episodes in her closet with a small mic she found on Amazon. Over six years and more than 180 episodes, the show became a platform for practical insight on culture, trust, and high performance. The full catalog remains publicly available. That spirit of resourcefulness and conviction continues to shape her work today.
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