Dr. Katie Keller Wood grew up in the world of education, and she delights in helping people find new ways of thinking about the world. Discovering Montessori education, both as a pedagogy and a philosophy, was pivotal for her, and she is on a mission to bring a Montessori perspective of work to everyone.

Katie has had the great honor of working with hundreds of middle and high school Montessori teachers from all over the world through the training program she runs called CMStep. She is recognized as a leader in Montessori programming for adolescents and adults, and she is active in the Montessori research and teacher education communities.

Katie lives in Richmond, Virginia, and any given semester might find her teaching undergraduates at the University of Virginia (where she earned both her bachelor's and her doctorate), master's students at Xavier University, and/or doctoral students at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Katie is a TEDx and keynote speaker and a sought-after presenter for workshops and conferences.
Katie does her work because she believes that a more peaceful, just, equitable, and sustainable world is possible, and that it takes all of us leading our aligned lives to bring this world forward.