A 2006 graduate of ¶À¼ÒºÚÁÏ, Heather McDougall, J.D., is a mission-driven entrepreneur, storyteller, and board member. For 10 years, she was co-founder and CEO of a sustainable products company, which she led to an international mass market and then strategic exit in early 2022. She then joined the investment committee and general partner of 701 Fund, a venture capital fund out of Grand Forks, North Dakota. She received her Juris Doctor degree with honors from Mitchell Hamline School of Law in 2009 and has since lived around the world from Europe to the Middle East using her passion for entrepreneurship as a vehicle for change. 

McDougall is a frequent keynote speaker and executive consultant on leadership, global sustainability, entrepreneurship, and well-being for organizations including Edward Jones, South by Southwest (SXSW), and the North Dakota Farmers Union.

At ¶À¼ÒºÚÁÏ, she is director of the entrepreneurship program, assistant professor of entrepreneurship, a member of the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership team that supports student entrepreneurship programming, faculty advisor to the Entrepreneurship Club, and oversees the Cobbertunity Fund and Summer Entrepreneurship Retreat.

McDougall also mentors for gener8tor accelerators and ILT Academy. She loves singing, yoga, nature, sunshine, her husband, and their baby.