John Healy

Biography

Dr John Healy is an adjunct Assistant Professor at Trinity Business School. His research and teaching interests focus on social innovation, complex systems reform and organisation theory. He has published extensively on in peer reviewed journals on these topics. He currently lectures on the MSc on Entrepreneurship.

John is the Chief Executive Officer of Genio.  Genio is a nonprofit organisation that works within complex, challenging systems to strengthen the voices of the marginalised and to scale effective solutions in Ireland and Europe. Genio has played a central role in the scaling to a national level of service models across mental health, homelessness, disability, Travellers and migration, where significant challenges existed to implementing policies.

John also currently works as the lead expert on scaling social innovations and capacity building for the European Commission’s Social Innovation+ Initiative.

John is the former global Director of Strategic Learning and Evaluation of the Atlantic Philanthropies, an international grant-making foundation where he worked from 1998 to 2012. He led the foundation’s evaluation, organisational and strategy development work across a range of systems reform initiatives in the United States, the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, South Africa and Vietnam. John received a PhD from Trinity College Dublin, a  Masters in Organisational Change from the HEC Paris and Oxford University, a MA in Economics from University College Cork and a BA in Economics and Politics from Trinity College.