Katy Stover
Katy is a learner, teacher, problem solver, networker & entrepreneur. She started her career teaching math as a Teach for America Corps Member. After seeing the inequities in education, she became passionate about teaching students and adults real world skills necessary for the workforce.
She worked at Pearson & then General Assembly where she ran educational programs with Fortune 500 companies, including Booz Allen, Bloomberg, Capital One, The Department of Defense, & Disney, to up-skill and re-skill their teams. With a desire to learn more parts of the talent puzzle, she went on to dive into the ins & outs of recruiting at an executive search firm.
Seeing a need to help companies in a 360 fashion, Katy founded HigherPeople to help leaders recruit, retain & re-skill their teams.
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