Kristen Fox

Kristen is the CEO of the Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF), a national non-profit organization that brings together innovative and committed business and higher education leaders to co-develop inclusive solutions to address emerging and persistent talent challenges. Through its membership network and solutions lab consulting arm, BHEF helps businesses leaders activate inclusive and effective talent pathways and higher education leaders implement industry-aligned models that achieve outcomes for learners. Kristen has over 20 years of education and workforce innovation leadership experience working at the intersection of education, digital learning, and workforce development. On the leadership team at Tyton Partners, Fox led organizational growth and advised leaders across the education and workforce sector. Her work focused on bringing university and employer executives together to design regional workforce development pathways, informing the development of products and go-to-market strategies for edtech, and publishing national research on the impact of digital learning and AI in higher education. At Northeastern University, she led initiatives to build new models to scale work-based learning, develop alternative credentials, scale career services for adult and part-time learners, and create new pathways to recruit underserved students into high-demand fields. She was previously a managing vice president at Eduventures and taught undergraduate courses at UCSD.