Heidi Jackson Everett is Managing Director at Admired Leadership. She is a trusted senior advisor to clients, specializing in leadership and change management. For almost 30 years, she has worked with public, non-profit, and private sector leaders and organizations as an advisor on talent and organizational development challenges and opportunities. As an experienced public board director, startup advisor, nonprofit board chair, Air Force veteran officer, Inc. 5000 founder, and certified executive coach, Heidi is uniquely able to understand the complexity of the intersection between people, business systems and regulation, financial dynamics, and external organizational pressures. ​

Her client industries include technology, management consulting, healthcare, media and entertainment and private equity. She also has extensive experience in the public and nonprofit sectors, supporting clients in education, and across defense and civil agencies. She has led organizational transformation, global enterprise restructuring and integration, crisis management, new strategy development, change management and executive development, search and transition. ​

Heidi 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. Ms. Everett has deep interest and experience in adult development. She is certified in DiSC, Five Behaviors, Leadership Circle, Collaborative Operating System, Positive Intelligence, Immunity to Change and vertical development.​ ​

Based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, Heidi lives with her college sweetheart husband and their two children. Due to growing up in a military family Heidi lived throughout the world and continues to enjoy travel. She loves live music and the performing arts most likely due to her many years playing piano and saxophone. Heidi is an adjunct professor for Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy’s Master of Public Affairs. She teaches the core course of Leadership, Management, and Change. Heidi’s current public board director role for NETSTREIT (NYSE: NTST) includes service on Nominating and Governance, and Compensation Committees, and she advises the CEO and CFO/COO on human capital and ESG strategies. Ms. Everett is also an Advisor for startups: Hummingbird Healthcare and CreatorUp.​