Director of Public Services/ Sector Engagement Manager (Public Services)
kristy.docherty@ei.ed.ac.uk
Kristy is the Director of Public Services at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, she has a PhD in Collective Leadership and Collaboration and draws from this research and her practice experience to support multidisciplinary and cross-boundary teams who want to work differently and collaborate more effectively.
With over 20 years’ practice experience, spanning the public, private and third sectors she has held senior positions for organisations in the Social Housing, Urban Regeneration and Renewable Energy fields where she has led teams to deliver change and infrastructure projects, advised organisations on the ‘how’ of complex collaboration, the process of brokering successful partnerships and understanding the challenges of cross sector engagement, all in pursuit of addressing complex, intractable and ‘wicked’ issues.
Prior to her role at the Futures Institute, she was a Lecturer in Leadership and Organisational Behaviour, Associate Director and Public Service Portfolio lead for a Consultancy providing strategic advice on social housing led regeneration, and the Business Director for a large-scale wind, solar and hydro energy developer.
Kristy is currently working with colleagues from Police Scotland and Public Health Scotland to develop a ‘Prevention Hub’, an innovative ecosystem focused on reducing inequalities through actions to improve health and wellbeing.