Kathy Houlihan, MBA, PhD

CEO & Founder @ Dream2Career | YC Graduate

Plymouth, Pennsylvania, United States

About

💡Turn screen time into green time—let's land a life well-lived.💡 I’ve spent my career bridging the gap between education and opportunity. After generating over $1B in tuition revenue and helping hundreds of thousands of students onramp into their dream careers, I realized that the traditional education system is broken. We need better ways to motivate learning and inspire new ways to reach people through opportunity and edutainment. Content is plentiful but wisdom is scarce.✨ Share your gifts with the world! 🌍 I founded Dream2Career | D2CTix to reimagine how we motivate and move people. By tapping into the transformative power of the opportunity travel industry, I’m helping people move both physically and mentally away from the "doomscrolling" of today’s digital world and toward a better tomorrow. 🧭 Through Operation Dream Landing, my team and I are bringing the "human" back to education and that, FYI includes the trades. We use travel and our immersive Demo Days to bring people back to campus—physically connecting them with the tools and the "G-O-A-T-S" they need to land their dream careers. ✈️🏫 My mission is simple: to replace stagnation in work-learn system with momentum and turn the enrollment process into an adventure that actually leads to a paycheck, a purpose, and a happy life. 🚀 Let’s stop scrolling and start landing a life well-lived today, tomorrow, and everyday! #IRL #OpportunityTravel #TheNEXTBigThing #LiveTheDream #MakeYourHobbyYourJob #D2CTravelCrew #FutureOfWork #CareerPathways #InspirationThruTravel #TravelTransforms

Experience

  • Dream2Career | D2CTix (9 yrs 7 mos)
    • CEO & Founder
      Jan 2017 - Present · 9 yrs 7 mos

    • Senior Business Travel Consultant
      Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Member at RevGenius
    Jul 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • Official Member Forbes Coaches Council at Forbes Coaches Council
    Jan 2018 - Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Wilkes University (10 yrs 4 mos)
    • Assistant Professor of Business
      Jul 2011 - Jan 2017 · 5 yrs 7 mos

    • Director Of Enrollment and Retention
      Oct 2006 - Jul 2011 · 4 yrs 10 mos

  • Adult Learning Recruiter and Student Advisement at Misericordia University
    Nov 2004 - Oct 2006 · 2 yrs