Kathleen Gibson Bio

Kathleen Gibson Bio

Kathleen Gibson is the CEO and Founder of APL nextEd, the first and only comprehensive Faculty Management Solution (FMS) to provide all faculty and administrators one single sign-on solution to manage all of their important faculty data.

Kathleen has worked as a lawyer, college dean, program developer, professor, and writer and she is the proud mother. Kathleen has studied and written about trends in higher education for the last 16 years. Her research proving the correlation between student success and faculty performance is what inspired she and her team to develop the APL nextED platform.

Kathleen has been described as an audacious leader who knows how to solve big problems by building executable plans and by assembling strong, talented teams. Kathleen has a contagious passion for connecting diverse people around a common vision.