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Principal
Heather has been a Principal with Kittleman since 2022. Before coming to Kittleman, Heather was a Principal with two nonprofit executive search firms in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she conducted leadership searches for CEO/Executive Director and other C Suite positions including CFO, COO, Development Director and Human Resources Director. At Kittleman, she focuses on the general categories of conservation, health care, food banks, and education in California, and the Northeast.
Heather has 20 years of experience consulting and recruiting for nonprofits ranging from small grassroots to large organizations. Heather’s nonprofit management experience includes four years as Executive Director of Rotaplast, which sends teams of volunteer surgeons overseas to do cleft lip and palate surgeries. Before that, she was an advisor for eight years with Planned Parenthood at the Federation level, both domestically and internationally. Heather’s private sector experience includes recruitment for senior financial professionals as an account executive for Robert Half and placing executive consultants for corporate and small business clients as a client services director for M Squared.
When not helping nonprofit clients, Heather enjoys teaching and practicing yoga, traveling and being outdoors. She has served on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Bay Area Returned Peace Corps Volunteers and the Red Panda Network.
Heather received her BA in Political Science from Binghamton University, NY, and MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management in Phoenix, AZ. She speaks conversational French, Spanish, Nepali and Arabic. Heather and her husband live six months of the year in Berkeley, CA, and six months in Down East Maine.