Heidi Jackson Everett

About Heidi Jackson Everett

Heidi Jackson Everett is an experienced public board director (NYSE: NTST), nonprofit board chair, Air Force veteran, business owner, and independent executive advisor. For over 25 years, Ms. Everett has worked with the federal government, non-profit and private sector leaders, and organizations to design and activate pathways for change. Ms. Everett partners with leaders to cast a vision for their organization and develop a roadmap to achieve that vision. Through a focus on people and organizational development, she creates clarity for complex systems and challenges, and organizations in transformation. Ms. Everetts professional experience includes management consulting in technical and highly-regulated industries with the business she owns and leads (Star Cypress Partners) and Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH). Ms. Everett has also worked in private equity with a family office/foundation leading due diligence and investment portfolio management. Her domain expertise includes organizational change management and transformation, organizational development, and human capital. She has led organizational transformation, global enterprise restructuring, crisis management, new strategy development, change management and executive search and transition. heidi headshot.png Ms. Everett has provided business development consulting to businesses expanding into the federal government. She has served in the role of Director of Business Development for companies providing technology services to the Intelligence Community and Defense agencies. Her advisory role led to the successful award of work in cyber training, network operations support, logistics and supply chain risk management, management consulting, procurement support services, and enhanced information technology solutions worth over $12.6B. Worth noting, is Ms. Everetts role as a trusted C-Suite advisor who designs business strategies for organizations and has expertise leading highly-regulated organizations in crisis or preparing for transformational change. She advised an American multinational banking and financial services company on how to improve marketing, legal and compliance functions. For a Silicon Valley-based technology company specializing in data and storage networking products she developed a new governance operating model and worked with business unit leads to design change management mobilization strategies. This work was critical for integration efforts after a recent merger, particularly before the company went public. Ms. Everett also guided leaders through the transformation of the Defense Health Agency (formerly the TRICARE Management Activity) after the Secretary of Defense ordered a comprehensive review of the Military Health Systems safety, access, and quality standards. Her leadership led to the establishment of performance measures based on top performing health care systems to achieve high reliability for its 9.6M beneficiaries. The value Ms. Everett brings to every organization she advises is rooted in her commitment to impact as an entrepreneur, care for building relationships with diverse stakeholders, and ability to assess culture and change opportunities to guide people toward a common purpose. Ms. Everett received a B.S. from Duke University and MBA from Georgetown University. She completed Executive Education in Mergers & Acquisitions at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a certified Prosci Change Management Professional, a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and an International Coaching Federation Professional Certified Coach (PCC). Ms. Everetts current public board role includes service on Nominating and Governance, and Compensation Committees, and she advises the NETSTREIT CEO and CFO/COO on human capital and ESG strategies. She is also an advisor for CreatorUp.