Heather Lord

Senior Advisor

Heather Lord is a strategist, researcher, writer, and speaker with over 20 years of experience spanning the philanthropic, social impact, and private sectors. In addition to her role as a JumpScale Senior Advisor, she is currently a Senior Fellow at the Stanford University Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, focusing on global trends in giving and best practices for philanthropists, wealth advisors, and family offices. She is the co-founder of V&H Social Impact, working with individuals, celebrities, companies, and nonprofit organizations on designing their social impact initiatives and partnerships. She began her career at a Rockefeller Foundation new media startup, and then worked with the Whitney family to launch the John Hay & Betsey Cushing Whitney Center on International Justice at the Greentree estate, convening world leaders such as the United Nations Security Council and Chief Executive Board, Acumen Fund, Aspen Institute, Médecins Sans Frontières, World Bank, International Center for Transitional Justice, International Peace Institute, and foreign consulates and heads of state from over 80 countries. She worked in the private sector on a tech startup in the 90's "dot com" boom, and also as a brand strategist and futurist trendspotter for Faith Popcorn’s BrainReserve, where she “brailled the culture” analyzing shifts in consumer behavior for Fortune 500 clients such as Nike, McDonald’s, and Proctor & Gamble.

She has served on boards for corporate and philanthropic organizations such as Humanity in Action, RNR Foundation, TerreformONE at the Brooklyn Navy Yard NewLab, In/PACT, and the Global Philanthropy Committee of the Council on Foundations. Heather was educated at the University of Chicago, Reed College, and holds a Master of Public Policy from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.