Heather Fitzgerald is Managing Director at the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY). Her role focuses on engaging Yale’s students, alumni, and the broader community with the work happening at the Center. From events to internships to mentorship and beyond, Heather strives to develop and support CBEY’s programming to connect people, ideas, and resources to foster business and cross-sector solutions to global challenges.
Heather also leads the marketing and communications efforts at CBEY, working to inform people about who we are and what we do. She enjoys telling stories about our active community and our compelling projects, as well as sharing the many resources we develop to help alumni and others working to create a just and thriving world.
Additionally, Heather is the Staff Lead of the Business and the Environment Learning Community at the Yale School of the Environment. In this role, she helps create co-curricular opportunities for students digging into how business must create more sustainable approaches to meet human needs.
She also takes great joy in watering the office plants and seeing them thrive :)
Prior to joining CBEY, Heather worked as Assistant Director at the Yale Center for Customer Insights at the Yale School of Management. There she developed a breadth of marketing and communication programs, engaged with students on research projects, and directed the center’s events.
Before coming to Yale, Heather spent over 15 years in marketing and customer insights, working with global brands such as Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble and McDonald’s to evaluate and improve their communication strategies. At the start of her career, she was part of a consortium that pioneered online research in its infancy, bringing together practitioners and researchers to build best practices.
A mother of three, she enjoys gardening, volunteering in her local community hiking with her dogs, spending time with her family, and finding fantastic bargains at consignment shops.
She is very excited to get to know the Branford College community! You can chat with Heather about:
- How business and the environment intersect
- Sustainable fashion
- Gardening…she’s an aspiring, yet not very good, gardener. She’s trying!
Reach out to her at heather.fitzgerald@yale.edu