our team

Jason (he/him) has a Master’s in Industrial Organizational Psychology, which focuses on the employee behavior in the workplace. He applies psychological principles and research methods to improve the overall work environment, including performance, communication, professional satisfaction, and safety.

For the last three years, Jason has built entrepreneurial ecosystems where he has trained, coached, and educated organizations, including the UN, Rockefeller Foundation, and Movember, where he designed and delivered the first ever mental health and wellness program for Black men.

He is also a former educator at the high school and collegiate levels, and designed training and educational programs for the largest educational organization in the world, Pearson Learning.

Heather (she/her) is an 18-year global public health veteran known for her ability to craft bold visions and bring them into reality through innovative partnerships, breaking down siloed mindsets, and developing systems-level solutions.

For the past 5 years, she has been passionately focused on transforming public health and healthcare systems to be more human, compassionate, and equity-centered—particularly for those who work in them.

Her experience in the global and domestic public health arenas give Heather the unique strength of being able to work deftly and diplomatically within systems while gently challenging traditionally held views and ways of doing things to allow more people to flourish and thrive.

Gareth (he/him) is a health designer who is not afraid of conflict or diversity. He is an expert in ensuring successful projects can merge private sector innovation and development.

He uses human-centered design tools matched with bold facilitation. This focus began by leveraging his public health strengths and applying those to evolving challenges in the social impact world. In strategy,

Gareth's critical eye gives him the unique ability to name things he sees. However, he always endeavors to guide with humor which makes things a bit easier for the tough times change can bring!

Sahra (she/her) is a global public health consultant, executive coach, facilitator, and HealthTech entrepreneur with over 20 years of progressive leadership experience in the US and the horn of Africa. Sahra is passionate about addressing social and political determinants of health and making high-quality healthcare accessible to under-resourced communities through inclusive leadership, innovation, and multisectoral collaboration.

As a coach and facilitator, she helps health and social impact leaders find their voice, build and share power with others, and focus on what matters so they can carve their own path for success as authentic and impactful agents for change.

Nana (she/her) is an applied researcher passionate about promoting health and development around the globe in a holistic, equitable, and sustainable manner. She has over 12 years of experience designing, implementing, and evaluating sustainable development and sexual and reproductive health programs worldwide.

Her extensive background in the NGO sector as well as in academia grounds her in finding effective, evidence-based solutions that are realistic, contextual, and amplify the voices of the most marginalized. Nana's current work focuses on applying a systems and implementation science lens to documenting and scaling up interventions to eliminate health disparities and gender-based violence globally.

As a feminist, she is also driven to decolonize research and evaluation spaces and promote cross-cultural, women-led solutions.

Katy (they/them) is best known for their work as a seasoned practitioner of human-centered/equity-based design. As the DSIL Global CEO/Co-Founder, they have 12 years leading co-creation with dozens of cross-cultural teams across all sectors. Their current energy is focused on emergent strategy and facilitation, which supports teams and individuals to shift their ways of working to move towards equity and justice on small and large scales.

Their unique way ensures that agency and voice are given to everyone in the room while shepherding honesty to be at the center of whatever comes next. This powerful strategy has had profound impacts that transform culture and leadership at even the most mechanical moving levels.

Katy is a playfully provocative educator and is constantly in practice to embody what they teach. From foster youth, to waitress, to social worker, to Rotary Peace Fellow, to Clinton Graduate School graduate to Berkeley Certified Executive Coach, and trained in a myriad of other theories and practices, they are constantly curious about how things really work and who decides they do.

Lucy (she/her) spent several years working on leadership development and organizational design in CDC's Center for Global Health, both internally and with health systems around the world.

She now works with The Ready helping organizations and leaders from all sorts of sectors cut through bureaucracy and hierarchy that are holding them back in order to meet the complexity and uncertainty in which we all work today. Every institution now faces the daunting task of reinventing itself—to become a more thriving, adaptive, equitable, and human system.

At The Ready, Lucy helps organizations and teams navigate and accelerate that change. She's also passionate about the role of work in our lives, and expanding the understanding of work as a social determinant of health.

She's a serial community builder, a third culture adult raised in New Zealand, rooted in Atlanta, Georgia, and a lifelong learner in the work of dismantling systemic oppression - starting with what she finds on the inside.