Founding Team
Katy Stover, Founder & CEO
Katy is a learner, teacher, problem solver, hustler, networker, and entrepreneur.
She started her career teaching Geometry in South East Washington D.C. 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 and then General Assembly running massive educational programs.
While at GA, she partnered with Fortune 500 companies, including Booz Allen, Bloomberg, Capital One, The Department of Defense, and Disney, to up-skill and re-skill their teams. After realizing that GA was only solving one piece of the talent puzzle, she sought to learn more about recruiting.
She then spent 2 years learning the ins and outs of recruiting at an executive search firm. Seeing a need to help companies in a 360 fashion, Katy founded Higher People.
While still an all-star recruiter, she also believes you have to find ways to motivate, re-skill, and retain your top talent.
When she’s not helping companies, she’s rock climbing, hiking with her dogs Johnny Cash & Bleu, re-exploring LA, listening to live music, and working on her "adulting skills."
Alex Nelson, Head of Operations
Alex Nelson is a versatile people & project manager; streamlining for quality and efficiency in retail, recruiting, Edtech, hospitality and events. From building strong client relationships at an event company, transforming game development software into a means to teach STEAM curriculum, to a customer focused leader managing all aspects of a modern urban grocery store. Now she is using the knowledge gained to not only find the best talent for Higher People partners, but helping those clients retain and re-skill their best assets.
When not making connections Alex can be found taking a yoga class at Practice Yoga, seeing every new movie at Alamo Drafthouse or playing games on her Oculus.
Expert Recruiters
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