Kyoung Lee

Kyoung has over 20 years of experience in strategic human capital and organizational development and is passionate about developing and coaching talent to help organizations improve results. She started her career as a management consultant serving Fortune 500 companies on strategic talent issues. She then joined one of her key clients and worked as an internal organizational development consultant at Pfizer.

Kyoung made a career shift to work in the education sector by joining Teach For America where she helped launch a new learning and development team focused on staff onboarding and leadership development. She then worked on school reform at DC Public Schools in both their human capital and academic departments, and most recently served as the VP of Talent Operations at Achievement First, a public school charter management organization, overseeing talent processes and systems across the full employee lifecycle.

Kyoung graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA in Public Policy and from Harvard Kennedy School with a Master in Public Policy. In her spare time, she is out and about with her twin girls, picking up a new skill or a sport whether that is cooking, bicycling, swimming, gymnastics, soccer, ice skating, or skiing.

Kyoung has long admired SEO as she’s had a few college friends who secured internships and full-time job offers from prestigious investment banks through SEO. She is drawn to SEO for providing a variety of impactful programs to close the opportunity gaps that still persist for underserved and historically excluded young people. Kyoung is excited to support SEO’s organizational growth and help create a positive and inclusive culture such that talented people want to come and contribute in big ways and make meaningful careers at SEO.