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, 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.

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She launched her first company in 2000, built and led a digital maternal health platform to scale across 20+ countries at the UN Foundation, pioneered one of the earliest large-scale digital health programs in Africa, and advised the World Bank and Global Financing Facility on country-level strategy. She founded Kati Collective — a global consulting practice spanning four continents — through which she developed a Chat for Impact toolkit for Meta and facilitated a multi-year process that brought a gendered lens to the global fight against malaria. She began her career at KPMG and served in the Peace Corps in Mali.

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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.

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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.