Heidi Piper is the Founder and CEO of PhoenixRising, a coaching and consultancy firm for executive leaders and their teams.  Prior to this endeavor, Heidi spent three decades as an executive at Procter & Gamble leading teams to create and deliver global innovation for brands like Pampers and Tide.  

For the majority of her adult life, Heidi lived in Belgium and Germany, and traveled extensively around the world.  When Boulder irresistibly chose Heidi two years ago, she packed up her life after 30 years in Europe.  Upon arriving, she joined City Club and wrote her first book here, a teaching memoir, called Choose Love. 

Heidi graduated from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana with a degree in Chemical Engineering. She loves to hike, bike, run, scuba-dive and travel. She also loves to sing and play the guitar. She recorded her first album, Lovers and Friends, in Boulder the year before she moved here. Heidi is the proud mother of two college-aged kids studying at CSU and University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Heidi lives with her partner in Boulder.