Lea Hegge, MPH has over 20 years of experience working to build healthy communities and workplaces.
Ms. Hegge began her career in youth violence prevention as an Education Director for Boys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities. Since then, she has worked with educational institutions; community, state, and national nonprofit organizations; government agencies; and diverse workplaces on training development and facilitation, strategic prevention planning, capacity building, and program evaluation. She is a subject matter expert in sexual assault, domestic violence, stalking, and harassment prevention and response.
A highly experienced and dynamic speaker, trainer, and facilitator, Lea excels at creating skill-building and application activities that result in actionable and manageable behavior changes. She has extensive experience in community development, comprehensive prevention strategies, organizational and community capacity building, implementation science, learning transfer, empowerment evaluation, and a deep commitment to inclusivity.
Prior to work with Catalyzer, Ms. Hegge served on the executive leadership team as Vice President of Research and Program Development for Alteristic, Inc., a leading national organization focused on preventing interpersonal violence. Ms. Hegge led training development and program evaluation, including oversight of the nationally renowned Green Dot Violence Prevention Strategy. She directed planning, instructional design, and implementation coordination of sexual assault prevention programming for a variety of clients, including the US Air Force, US Army, National Science Foundation’s US Antarctic Program, and US Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women, among others. She supported coordination of complex, multi-site projects for government agencies in the states of Alaska, Florida, Idaho, Missouri, Nevada, and North Dakota. Ms. Hegge led the team that developed the US Department of Defense, Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office’s prevention workforce training, the foundational sexual assault prevention curriculum for all military services.
Lea earned a Master’s Degree in Public Health, with a concentration in health behavior, from the University of Kentucky. She lives in northern Wisconsin with her wooden boat-building partner, two tiny hockey players, and a disturbingly large Great Dane/lap dog.