Mary Kerrigan

Engaging, enthusiastic and extraordinary, Mary Kerrigan creates spaces where everyone belongs – she is the Swiss army knife you need to transform People | Places | Public Spaces. Making the apparently impossible possible, Mary is an architect engagement and leadership expert. A leading advocate for cultural change, Mary has specialisms in heritage, peace/community building and regeneration. For 25+ years she’s worked at the transformation coal face - in the most intractable circumstances - to powerful effect. Her participative fun programmes: masterclasses and one-on-one/group mentoring help raise next generation leaders in industry, organisations and regeneration professions. Unlocking the blocks, we increase your capacity to engage more effectively. People love our catalysing eye-opening experiences, and caring commitment to community. Leaders and their teams take the ball we offer and run with it, achieving positive step change. All about belonging, beauty and aliveness, Mary is the advisor, speaker and mentor to help you slice through resistance like a knife through butter. Over years Mary contributed to conversations creating the possibility of Derry’s transformational Peace Bridge, unifying this once divided city. She is the creator of Heritage Streets Alive, a proven process successfully engaging and empowering leaders in co-designing a new future. A Getty Scholar, SPAB Scholar and Sustainable Communities Millennium Fellow, Mary is a chartered architect. The first Education Officer appointed to a Townscape Heritage Initiative in Northern Ireland, she’s held roles in design guidance, engagement, and education at all levels. Advisor to government in Northern Ireland for a decade, Mary practiced architecture across Ireland for 20 years. Awarded the Sikorski Prize and B Arch (first class honours) from the Liverpool School of Architecture, Liverpool University Mary undertook an exchange at the University of Oregon, School of Architecture.