Joanne Kerrigan, BPR (she)
Co-Waver
Joanne has been at the heart of organizations in transformative moments for many years. Her roles have varied, encompassing strategic leadership, change management consulting, organizational learning, communication and marketing, and as a member and leader of boards of directors.
She has also designed and guided learning in multiple environments, including post-secondary classroom and multi-week online professional cohorts.
In 2018 Joanne left consulting to join the Avalon Sexual Assault Centre as it underwent significant transformation, supporting change in multiple roles including Interim Executive Director. She went on to lead Women in Film and Television Atlantic through board renewal and organizational restructuring as their first Executive Director, before joining Big Waves as Co-Waver in 2024.
With Big Waves she brings new and different approaches to
- building organizations' strategic clarity (“how we do things here, and why, and what that looks like in everyone's work”),
- protecting organizational priorities (“is it really a timely pivot, or is it scope creep, or mission drift?”),
- measuring what matters (selecting strong signals), and
- analysing confusing conditions in relationships or work design (organizational structure, role design and expectations, process or project design, input and decision-making).
- adaptive prioritization
- AI stewardship
- internal communication
- strategic planning
- decision making and input
- fair expectations
- project design
- group roles and structures