Built by someone who has spent 30 years connecting the dots.

Kirsten Gagnaire is a strategist, entrepreneur, facilitator, and dot-connector whose career spans global health, AI, digital innovation, social enterprise, diplomacy, and organizational strategy. She has spent three decades working at the intersection of complex problems and the people who have to solve them together across governments, foundations, multilateral institutions, corporations, and civil society. She launched her first company in 2000, built and led a digital maternal health platform to scale across multiple countries at the UN Foundation, pioneered one of the earliest large-scale digital health programs in Africa, supported African governments on data, digitalization, and AI through engagements with the World Bank and Global Financing Facility, and helped develop Gavi’s Civil Society and Community Engagement strategic approach for 5.0 while shaping its evolution for 6.0. She began her career at KPMG and served in the Peace Corps in Mali. Kirsten holds an MSc in International Strategy and Diplomacy from the London School of Economics, an International Business degree from Seattle University, and has designed and facilitated high-stakes processes across more than 40 countries, in multiple languages, across sectors, cultures, and significant power asymmetries. She has been a participant in processes that fell short, where the right people were in the room but the design, the facilitation, or the follow-through failed the moment. She has learned, over and over, that outcomes are determined before anyone enters the room. And she has been the architect of processes that produced the result everyone said was impossible. Convergence Designs is built from both of those experiences.