Kira Cooper

Dr. Kira Jade Cooper is a postdoctoral fellow with the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR) at the University of Waterloo, where her research explores the nexus of inner and outer sustainability and systemic transformations. She is currently developing an open-sourced program to assess the readiness of organisations to leverage inner transformations for systemic change. MDPIUniversity of Waterloo

Cooper's interests span positive transformations, mindfulness, wellbeing, personal and organizational systems change, sensemaking, resilience, and complexity capacity, informed by experience across private, public, and non-governmental sectors. Her publications include work on inner-outer sustainability assessment frameworks and mindfulness's role in supporting sustainability progress. She also co-edited a special issue on sustainability and inner development for the journal Challenges. University of Waterloo

Cooper frequently contributes to dialogues on wisdom traditions, awareness, and transformation, bridging contemplative practice with systems-change research to support more integrative approaches to sustainability.