Meet Katie

Katie Harris is a creative, strategic, and driven leader with a passion for making things better today than they were yesterday. Katie has worked in the AEC industry for over 15 years, where she has provided leadership in areas such as marketing, branding, business development, internal communications, recruitment and retention strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic business planning. Katie recently launched Cultivate Growth Partners, LLC, where she is leveraging her marketing and merger/acquisition integration expertise to help AEC firms achieve their goals for growth and change.

Katie has an undergraduate degree in communications from The University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Concordia University. She is a past president of the SMPS Austin Chapter and served on the SMPS Austin Board for 4 years. She now lives in sunny Scottsdale, Arizona where she enjoys the low humidity, abundant outdoor activities, and the fact that she’s just a two-hour flight away from clients, Tex-Mex, and UT football. Katie is active in her local SMPS and ULI chapters, serving on the ULI Arizona Communications Committee and as part of the ULI Next 2021-2022 Class.