Katherine Zobre is a strategist, speaker, and founder of The Founders Playground, where she helps underestimated entrepreneurs build resilient businesses rooted in clarity, courage, and systems that scale. With over a decade of experience advising startups, governments, and entrepreneurial support organizations, Katherine has supported the launch of 160+ businesses and trained thousands of entrepreneurs across the country.

Her work lives at the intersection of equity, innovation, and real-world execution. Whether leading AI bootcamps for DBEs, facilitating leadership alignment at public hospitals, or mentoring student founders at the University of Alabama, she brings a rare blend of tactical insight and heart-centered leadership.

A former SBDC advisor and Director of Training at an incubator with deep experience in curriculum design, grant strategy, and business model innovation, Katherine's sessions leave participants with actionable tools—and the confidence to use them.

She believes entrepreneurship can be a tool for personal liberation and collective change. Her goal? To help more people turn what they know into what they grow.