Kyla serves as a Team Lead for Environmental Incentives, managing IDEAL client relationships across Sub-Saharan Africa. She oversees scoping, resource allocation, and product delivery, ensuring alignment with EI’s high standards. Leading a small team, Kyla guides their professional growth and connects them with valuable resources. While receiving strategic direction from senior leadership, she prioritizes building trust with clients, delivering exceptional products, and enhancing value through both internal and external collaborations.
With a strong background in environmental conservation and project management, Kyla is experienced in using the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation. Before joining Environmental Incentives, she evaluated the Rwandan Government’s forest monitoring system with the International Union for Conservation of Nature and the World Resources Institute, providing key recommendations for system upgrades. Additionally, Kyla collaborated with the International Crane Foundation and Endangered Wildlife Trust to develop conservation management plans for protecting crane species in South Africa’s Drakensberg region, developing these plans with the Open Standards.
Kyla is committed to fostering collaborative partnerships and empowering local communities to achieve science-based conservation outcomes that enhance ecosystem health and sustainably advance human well-being.