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Dr Heidi Stalla
Dr. Heidi Stalla is a senior leadership faculty member at KS Insight and brings over two decades of experience in academic leadership, program development, and experiential education. She currently serves as a Lecturer at Yale University in the English Department and in the Humanities Program, and also as Associate Director of Academic Affairs for Yale College and previously held the role of Dean at Yale's Pauli Murray College. At KS Insight, she is part of the inaugural design team for the Women Igniting Leadership Lab, focusing on advancing leadership skills through creative and adaptive approaches.
Dr. Stalla has held leadership and faculty roles at several prestigious institutions worldwide. She founded the Writing Program at New York University Abu Dhabi and developed innovative experiential learning initiatives at Yale-NUS in Singapore, where she was Assistant Professor of Humanities. Stalla is a Modernist scholar, with special focus on Virginia Woolf, life-writing, and creative nonfiction. Her work often explores themes of transnational modernism, leveraging creative and critical methodologies to uncover new insights. Her ongoing projects include a biography of modernist writer Ling Shu Hua, highlighting her global artistic and literary collaborations.
Dr. Stalla’s literary output includes academic articles, creative nonfiction, and audio essays, with a focus on interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and research. She has published in journals and books on topics such as Virginia Woolf’s historiographical methods, life-writing, and the intersection of creativity and pedagogy. As a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University’s Centre for Life-Writing, she explored the journeys of Ling Shu Hua’s Friendship Scroll, using it as a lens to study global modernism.
An alumna of Stanford University, where she was a member of the 1997 NCAA Championship tennis team, Dr. Stalla earned her doctorate from Oxford University and further enhanced her leadership expertise through studying Adaptive Leadership with Ronald Heifetz at Harvard University. Her global career has taken her to Jordan, Oman, Sri Lanka, Abu Dhabi, Singapore, and the UK, enriching her teaching and leadership perspectives.
