Kate Bean
2023 ALI Fellow

Kate Bean brings to ALI mindful leadership expertise and experience as a pioneer in public education innovation. For 18 years she served as the founder/CEO of Aveson, a non-profit organization built to manage charter schools and lead a national movement to challenge traditional K-12 education. She served as the speaker for the Personalized Mastery Learning Network. Kate also founded and led the first workers’ cooperative for public school educators in the state of California and served on the board of the California Center for Cooperative Development.

Through her company iChangeCourse, Kate advises non-profit leaders on start-up practices, change management, mindful leadership, and personal/professional balance. She spent a year traveling the country doing volunteer work while documenting stories of shared values, resilience, and the power of connection.