Emergence Founder
Bridgit Wald is an integral coach, organizational development consultant, and equine facilitated learning specialist. She is passionate about supporting individuals and teams in moving towards greater awareness, collaboration, and performance. Bridgit is skilled in working with senior leaders and their teams in addressing the tangible and intangible personnel and organizational opportunities and challenges at hand, and focuses on the ways that management and leadership informs and impacts the health and functionality of entire organizational systems. She also holds an active practice in equine facilitated coaching through EquusLibere, serving leadership teams in on the ground team development in partnership with horses. She serves clients from a wide range of sectors, from non-profits and educational institutions to Fortune 100 and across all areas is a passionate facilitator of holistic, sustainable human and organizational systems transformation. Beyond human development work, she can be found at the horse barn, making music, and volunteering with her non-profit project, Bridging Unicorns. She holds a B.A from McGill University in Montreal, QC. Client short list includes Google, HBO, Lego, Palantir Technologies, and the University of Colorado Boulder.
Trainings & Certifications:
Certified Integral Coach (New Ventures West)
Leadership Circle Assessment Certification (Leadership Circle)
Hogan Assessment and Advanced Interpretation Certification
Facilitation of Groups as Living Systems (MatrixWorks)
Experiential Facilitation (Training Wheels)
Coaching Certification (Soluluna)
Clinical Pastoral Education: Chaplaincy (Jewish Theological Seminary)
Facilitation and Conflict Resolution Certification (YLead)
Emergence Collaborators
Over her 30+ year career at Fortune 50 company Procter & Gamble, Heidi led global innovation for brands which accounted cumulatively for over $100 Billion in sales. As a senior executive, she led thousands of people across Europe, North and South America and Asia. Favoring a servant leader, inclusive, relationship-supporting, balanced, transparent and action-oriented, pragmatic approach, Heidi has enabled excellent workplace culture, and highly engaged, productive global and remote teams. Since her time at P&G Heidi has earned additional certifications in organizational human system mapping and Matrixworks group facilitation and she currently serves as an executive coach and passionate facilitator of human systems assessment and transformation. Organizational short list includes Proctor & Gamble, Lego, University of Colorado, and Coty.
Sophia is a facilitator and learning designer with an extensive background in innovation and business process improvement. Using her background in systems thinking and design, she brings teams to consensus, agility, and operational efficiency. She holds an MBA in Sustainable Systems, Environmental, and Social Justice from Presidio Graduate School. In addition to her independent consulting and facilitation work, she serves as the Senior Performance Program Manager for Kaiser Permanente in Denver, CO. Sophia is certified in Lean Black Belt and has guided organizations, of all sizes, from nonprofit to governmental, through training and implementing Process Improvement and Continuous Improvement. She enables purpose-driven organizations to focus directly on their mission by saving time, energy, and resources, while increasing engagement. She loves horses, violin, dancing, writing, and messing around in her garden.
Robin brings 30+ years of experience as an executive coach, change agent, group facilitator and thought leader. For nine years, Robin was Research Director at Deloitte, where she led the firm’s global research on the human aspects of organizational performance. She has immersed in dozens of leading-edge methodologies – forever seeking the most powerful approaches to foster self-awareness, leadership, innovation and transformational growth. She serves as a trusted guide through transformational change, where territory is unfamiliar and answers are unclear. In addition to growing up immersed in the world of horses, she holds a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Florida, an M.A. in International Economic Policy from Columbia University. Organizational short list includes Microsoft, ABB, HP, IBM, Eli Lilly, Fujitsu, Techstars, and IDEO.