Katie Carpen, PhD - Leader, Consultant, & Speaker
I’ve spent my career asking a simple question: What helps people thrive?
That question has guided my work across higher education, workforce development, leadership, and organizational transformation. It has shaped how I lead teams, design programs, facilitate conversations, and partner with organizations navigating change.
Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to work with learners seeking new opportunities, leaders facing complex challenges, and organizations striving to create meaningful impact. While the settings have changed, the goal has remained the same: helping people discover what’s possible and creating the conditions for growth.
I believe education is one of the most powerful forces for transformation. Not simply because it imparts knowledge, but because it can change the trajectory of a life, strengthen a family, uplift a community, and create new possibilities for the future.
That belief continues to influence everything I do. Whether I’m facilitating a leadership retreat, advising on strategy, speaking to an audience, or supporting organizational change, I bring a human-centered perspective grounded in the idea that people matter and potential deserves to be developed.
I am driven by the belief that organizations achieve their greatest impact when they invest in people. Throughout my career, I have focused on building strategies, programs, and systems that help individuals, teams, and organizations grow, adapt, and thrive.
As a higher education and organizational leader, I have led large-scale transformation initiatives, guided academic and workforce innovation, and developed strategies that improve outcomes while keeping people at the center. My work has included leading programs that achieved more than 10x growth, overseeing the redesign of business and leadership programs serving diverse learner populations, and creating integrated experiences that connect learning, career development, and student success.
I am particularly passionate about helping organizations navigate complexity, align people and strategy, and create sustainable change. Whether leading transformation efforts, facilitating strategic conversations, developing leaders, or designing new approaches to learning and workforce readiness, I believe meaningful progress happens when vision, purpose, and action come together.
At the heart of my work is a commitment to expanding opportunity, developing human potential, and building systems that create lasting impact for individuals, organizations, and the communities they serve.
My leadership approach centers on investing in people as a strategic advantage, enabling stronger results, greater resilience, and long-term organizational impact.
Graduate business learners served
Scaling programs and partnerships to achieve 1.5 - 10x growth and lasting impact.
Faculty, subject matter experts, and stakeholders aligned across complex initiatives
Industry, employer, and organizational partnerships developed and managed
Strategic discovery and consultation conversations with business leaders and organizations
Professionals recruited, assessed, and onboarded in global organizations
We use cookies to analyze website traffic and optimize your website experience. By accepting our use of cookies, your data will be aggregated with all other user data.