Kathleen Graham is the CEO of The HQ Companies, Inc. She is known for her accurate employment and economic trends forecasts and her human capital solutions consulting for executives, corporations, and boards globally. Graham is noted for her labor market economic forecasts and articles on a wide variety of human capital and governance topics. She also has been a writer or speaker for NACD, Procurement Foundry, AICPA/CIMA, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Graham is currently the board president for the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) Chicago chapter and an advisory board director for the dean of the School of Business and Entrepreneurship for North Central College.