Scalable Leadership for Impactful Solutions
Caryatid is empowering cultural institutions, growing businesses, and startups with tailored strategic executive expertise
Heather Diehl is Caryatid Systems
With nearly 30 years at the intersection of groundbreaking technologies, storied institutions, and a deep attachment to the arts and culture, Heather is uniquely suited to take on your organization’s challenges and dreams.
Diverse Client & Customer Base
Leverage the broad experience of Washington, DC-based Caryatid for your needs. Heather’s time serving clients such as International Financial Institutions, Sovereign Nations, aerospace titans, Fortune-50 financial services companies, publicly-traded software businesses, tech and health startups, cultural institutions, and educational nonprofits, results in an incredible toolkit to meet your organization where it is and where it needs to be.
Customized Fractional Engagements
Lift the burden of traditional full-time executive hiring and consulting services. Benefit from agile arrangements designed to fit your needs and constraints.
Weather Disruptive Change
Bolster organizational outcomes when leadership transitions and reorganizations threaten your mission.
Our Core Services
Discover expert fractional executive services crafted to accelerate your organizational growth and transform your business model.
Leadership Guidance
Empowering your leadership team to make strong strategic decisions, drive and govern effective initiatives, and provide strong continuity through leadership shifts.
Transformation Roadmaps
Architecting actionable plans that align technology and business outcomes for sustainable and iterative success.
Project-based Leadership
Ensuring success of critical investments and their execution.
Driving Success Through Fractional Executive Expertise
Discover what our clients say about transforming their businesses with our strategic leadership and tailored solutions.
Heather is an accomplished IT professional, able to lead complex digital transformations. She is deeply skilled in creating and enacting IT policy and governance, which is particularly complex in consensus based organizations. She is a very effective communicator at all levels of an organization and I cherished the opportunity to work with such an articulate and assertive leader.
M. B.
Enterprise Cloud Architect
I was lucky enough to work with Heather at NASA; I was smart enough to hire her to bolster a growing program at DHS. I have met few people who could learn to handle so much, so quickly; Heather is a fantastic problem solver and a rigorous manager. A fine asset to the best teams. I hope to work with her again.
L. H.
SVP, Business Development and NASA Subject Matter Expert
I’ve really appreciated Heather’s help on writing our [redacted] strategy. Her research, analysis, and writing skills along with her understanding of the underlying technologies made this a much more achievable task!
E. A.
Chief of IT Customer Engagement
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