Senior Leadership
Heather L. Beal, Ph.D, CEM
President & CEO / Founder
Heather was raised to give 100% of her effort to every endeavor. Since her earliest experiences in Girl Scouts, numerous volunteer events and organizations, she has always sought to make a difference. In junior high she lead efforts against famine by collecting donations at local grocery stores.
After graduating college, she served our country with 23 years of dedicated Naval service. She is married to an equally dedicated Navy Officer. While in the military she earned graduate degrees in Asian studies, conflict resolution, cyber security policy and emergency management. She is a Certified Emergency Manager (CEM) and has her PhD in Public Policy & Administration. Her specialization is emergency management and her dissertation focused on childcare recovery.
As a working parent of two, she became aware of just how much of a gap existed in childcare emergency preparedness training & resources and vowed to use her experiences, education, and more importantly, motivation, to fill the gap. Her desire to bridge the emergency management and childcare communities culminated in the founding of BLOCKS.
BLOCKS is the manifestation of that desire to help keep our children safe.
You can contact her directly at president@blocksusa.org
