Areas of expertise
- Providing insights into education foresight and strategy
- Exploring the future of learning through publications and partnerships
- Facilitating workshops that help participants apply futures thinking to their own contexts
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.
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.
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. She is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists and a Salzburg Global fellow.
Featured work
An internationally recognized education futurist, Katherine Prince brings expert facilitation, well-researched content and engaging provocations as a guest and partner to help audiences explore the future of learning within their own contexts. She’s able to use sensibility and reason to make what can be frightening and intangible into something concrete that can be addressed with strategic next steps.
- Looking at What’s Ahead for Education: This digest of our recent explorations into the future of learning gives readers a quick sense of changes on the horizon and the possibilities that they present, as well as strategic considerations.
- Thinking Beyond the Teacher Shortage: Clarifying what purpose(s) education systems seek to pursue can help establish shared goals, shifting mindsets and structures for educator supports.
- Educator Roles as a Catalyst for Transformation (Getting Smart): Explore the evolving roles of educators and their pivotal role in shaping the future of learning in a new Getting Smart blog by Katherine Prince. From family connection coordinators to artificial intelligence advisors, these new roles can help create personalized, meaningful educational experiences and ensure learners’ needs are met in innovative ways.
- The Future of Teaching (Salzburg Global): Along with other international education experts and intermediaries, Katherine joined this program focused on three critical factors in the wider future of teaching discussions that will influence education over the next decade. Katherine continues to work with Salzburg Global alongside the other international partners.
- Surfacing Future Possibilities for Educators (Institute for the Future): Katherine joined IFTF to explain the foresight process for developing the Envisioning Educator Roles for Transformation and other ways KnowledgeWorks integrates a foresight practice into its projects to help people innovate the future learning.
