Meet the Team

Atalie Jacobs
Chief of Staff
MBA, University of Michigan
BA, Howard University
Atalie is a Strategy and Talent Management Executive with 14+ years of experience advising executive leaders and leading complex organizational transformations across the private, non-profit, and government sectors.
At McKinsey and Company, Atalie advised Fortune 50 companies across a broad range of topics including strategy, marketing, talent, and supply chain management. Atalie has a proven ability to manage ambiguity and establish effective processes for collaboration and decision-making among cross-functional stakeholders.
Atalie has significant experience assessing and leading talent management system, structure, and process change, including performance management and compensation, with a lens for embedding best practices related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Atalie’s experiences across these topics are especially deep within the context of K-12 education, specifically with charter management organizations, districts, and education nonprofits through her work as a Consultant with Bellwether Education Partners and Associate Partner at Promise54, both education-focused consulting firms.
Atalie is a trustee at The Sojourner Truth School – the first middle and high school Montessori School in Washington D.C., and enjoys spending time outdoors with her husband and two sons in the Washington Metro Area.