As a Senior Consultant with Clear Impact, Ms. Vila works to help families and communities achieve improved wellbeing and to keep public systems accountable for producing measurable results. She provides Clear Impact Scorecard and Results-Based Accountability training and consulting, as well as coaching, training, and consulting in leadership, strategic management and performance accountability.

Before joining Clear Impact, Ms. Vila spent five years with the Talent and Leadership Development Unit in the Annie E. Casey Foundation. There, she supported public and non-profit organizations in building accountability-focused and data-driven processes to achieve better results. She also worked with the Promise Neighborhoods federal initiative in aligning actions and resources to create a cradle-to-career pipeline that transforms poverty into opportunity in communities around the country.

Ms. Vila’s public sector collective action experience also includes working with Promise Zones (a similar poverty-to-opportunity federal initiative) in facilitating the process of various federal agencies coming together to identify individual contributions towards a collective goal. At the state and local level, her work includes results-based capacity-building with participants of the national Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI), and with state-based advocates across the country working to improve health outcomes for children and families.

Ms. Vila has extensive experience training leaders across the country on results-based facilitation, as well as experience facilitating meetings and workshops with a focus on Results-Based Accountability. Most recently, she has conducted organizational development workshops and facilitated meetings for audiences including the Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP), the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN), the United Way Emerging Leaders United Conference, and the Board of Directors of the Children Affected By HIV/AIDS (CHABHA).

A native of São Paulo, Brazil, Ms. Vila has had extensive international experiences beginning early in life, including living, traveling and working in Australia, Colombia, Peru, and the United States. This personal background helped shape her interest in using applied leadership to bridge social and economic inequalities domestically and internationally.

Heloisa holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Maryland, College Park. She speaks Portuguese and Spanish, has a great interest in and experience with music, and loves the outdoors.

Education and Certifications:

• Coach Certification Program graduate, CoachDiversity Institute – 

CoachDiversity Institute is the world’s first coaching training program for those working in diverse communities and communities of color. Through this coach training program accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), students learn all the skills that are aligned with the ICF’s core coaching competencies without skirting around the issues of identity, race, class, gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and ability, which underpin the challenges faced in our communities.

• Masters in Public Policy, University of Maryland College Park