Heather Curran has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Heather’s 27+ year career in oil and gas, and global commercial real estate services earned her a wide range of skills. Her 11-year tenure at Exxon, as part of the Management Development Program, involved changing positions approximately every two years to experience different types of responsibilities and build on her skill sets, which included supervising large teams as well as project management. This led her to a 16+ year career at Hines as Corporate Director of Learning & Development where she directed the efforts to establish the firm’s global learning offerings and services, and built the department. As a learning professional, she was requested to be a speaker at various external industry meetings and conferences. She is now applying her expertise and passion for learning & development as a free-lance consultant.