Kathryn Minshew is a visionary entrepreneur with a passion for supporting female-founded start-ups, the arts, and helping companies navigate the ever-changing job world. She gained her reputation for excellence while CEO of the career search website she co-founded, “The Muse” from 2011–2023. A platform designed to meet changing needs in job search technology, The Muse helps more than 75 million annual users and was named one of Fast Company's 50 Most Innovative Companies.

Minshew advises and invests with XFactor Ventures, prioritizing female-founded tech start-ups. Her record has set her apart as an expert in entrepreneurship and technology. She is now a consultant to a Fortune 100 company on change management in the time of Artificial Intelligence. A venture capital adviser to Trilantic Capital, a global private equity firm, Minshew also advises multiple start-ups, not forgetting her roots.

Starting a business isn't for everyone, and it's not what you should do if you aren't sure what else to do. It requires thick skin and the willingness to carry a great deal of stress, sometimes alone. It's more often a life of failure than a life of success, and the majority of successes came after a long road of disappointment, and often shame.

Minshew is an accomplished author, with her first book The New Rules of Work (2017) becoming a Wall Street Journal national bestseller. She has co-produced Broadway plays and musicals and invested in others. Minshew founded “Nothing Ventured Productions” to manage her theater investments and production work.

A present-day tech pioneer, Kathryn Minshew was included by Forbes on their “30 Under 30” list. She speaks from her impressive experience on topics such as leadership, the future of work, and “Making Work More Human.” Previously Kathryn worked at McKinsey & Company and aided in introducing vaccines and healthcare infrastructure in Africa as a part of the Clinton Health Access Initiative.