THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE IT ALL HAPPEN
Meet the Fourth Economy team.
Our team of consultants are experienced practitioners in economic and community development, with a national portfolio spanning governments, foundations, businesses, and nonprofits. We bring expertise in strategy, data, and engagement to help communities and organizations achieve inclusive and sustainable growth.
Our Advisor Bench
Fourth Economy Advisors are a trusted group of collaborators who bring deep expertise, practical experience, and perspective that strengthen our work. They extend our core team with specialized skills and lived experience that help us design strategies that are grounded, responsive, and informed by real-world conditions.
By working with this advisor network, we are able to match the right expertise to each engagement, scale our capacity thoughtfully, and respond to client needs as they evolve. Advisors join projects in targeted ways, whether leading specific workstreams, shaping strategy, or providing focused insight at key moments, ensuring that each engagement benefits from the experience most relevant to the work at hand.
Economic Competitiveness
Fourth Economy is part of Steer and is supported by the Steer North America Executive Leadership Team and a Business Delivery Group that provides HR, Finance, Marketing and Sales support. Together they provide the strategic, operational, communications, and business development infrastructure that powers Fourth Economy’s work at a national scale. Their support ensures that projects are delivered consistently, efficiently, and with impact.
Herbert Higginbotham
Executive President
Robyn Schindel
Vice President, People & Experience
Pia Bernardini
Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Our team is part of a global network of consultants at Steer.
Steer is an employee-owned consultancy with 21 offices across North America, Latin America, UK, Europe and India. Since 1978, Steer has provided advisory services to government and business – with a particular focus on projects that develop cities, infrastructure and transport.