Areas of Expertise: education foresight, strategy, program and project management, publication development, event design and facilitation

“I help people explore future possibilities for learning so that they can make more informed and more deliberate choices about the actions that they take today.”

Katherine Prince leads KnowledgeWorks’ exploration of the future of learning and stewards the organization’s strategy around engaging people with education transformation. As vice president of foresight and strategy, she leads a team of professional futurists who explore future possibilities for education and help people grapple with change and consider what they want for the future. Katherine also collaborates across KnowledgeWorks to define, implement and monitor the impact of KnowledgeWorks’ publication and engagement strategy.

In earlier roles with KnowledgeWorks, Katherine led organizational development initiatives, contributed to national collaborations toward systems change, and managed programs to foster teaching and professional learning innovations and encourage collaborative knowledge management among educators.

Before joining KnowledgeWorks in 2006, Katherine supported large-scale changes in working practice at Britain’s Open University and helped U.S. federal agencies and other clients increase service quality by incorporating a customer perspective into their organizational planning. Katherine holds a B.A. in English from Ohio Wesleyan University, an M.A. in English from the University of Iowa, an M.B.A. from The Open University and a professional certificate in foresight from the University of Houston. She also pursued training in foresight from the Institute for the Future and is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists.