Kate Horle (she, her, hers) is CWEE’s Chief Executive Officer. Guided by CWEE’s mission, Kate provides strategic direction and leadership, ensures financial sustainability, and supports the Board of Directors in fulfilling their governance functions. She leads the executive management team and, working closely with the Board of Directors, defines the strategy so that CWEE can continue to guide career seekers toward a fulfilling career and stable economic future.
Kate is known as a transparent, innovative, and trusted executive with a polished presence and demeanor, who establishes relationships across the continuum of human services and public policy. As a well-qualified, insightful senior leader and business partner, Kate has often played a pivotal role in persuasively applying expertise of regulatory compliance into business strategy.
She is an accomplished strategic planner and negotiator – responsible for positive financial outcomes in both private and non-profit sectors, including strong experience managing sales and business development teams, community foundation partnerships, and federal and state funding.
Kate has expertise in organizational management and relationship development and is experienced in business development, research, program management and development, advocacy, coalition building and management, contract negotiations, public speaking, communications, and message development.
Over her extensive 25+ years of experience in business, Kate has actively participated in executive leadership and board membership, contributing to strategic visioning, collaborative action plans, relationship management, tactical methodology, process design, internal and external communications, public policy, branding/marketing, cross-platform integrated services, social media, and speech writing.
Throughout her career, she has navigated the complex and often changing landscape of privacy, healthcare policy, regulatory compliance and, importantly, advocacy for customers and partners. She is a specialist in practical knowledge about public policy governing the diverse areas of the human service arc.
Kate holds a Master of Public Administration (MPA) with a focus on Policy Analysis and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Political Science from The University of Colorado.