Washington, D.C.
Shelly Hicks has almost 20 years of progressively responsible experience in strategic planning, client service, and thought leadership to manage and implement adaptive management programs. Ms. Hicks’ has spent her career working at the nexus of climate, environment, and economic development. Her expertise is strengthening institutions’ business processes around capacity development for programming, procurement, planning, and reporting helps USAID improve the impact of its development programming. Ms. Hicks provides support for clients to articulate their strategic vision and develop plans to operationalize, measure, and learn from project implementation. Over the ten years of Measuring Impact (2013-2018) and Measuring Impact 2 (2019-2023), Ms. Hicks led various teams before transitioning to the MI2 Chief of Party in 2020.
As an organizational development expert, she has directed the creation and management of capacity building, policy development, and process improvements that enable better program design, monitoring, evaluation and learning for public, private and civil actors. She has extensive experience working with international development leaders and managers in the United States, Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean to facilitate change management and apply organizational development approaches to increase the impact of community development, conservation, climate change, and economic development programs.
Shelly aspires to catalyze change and innovation in international development through strengthening organizational capacity for design, monitoring, evaluation and learning. Increasing an organizations capacity to learn and adapt will result in more effective programming and ultimately better human outcomes.
