Katie Breault is the Chief Delivery Officer at YUPRO Placement, a mission-driven staffing firm focused on skills-first hiring and workforce strategy. Her work sits at the intersection of how companies hire, how work actually gets done, and why traditional signals like experience and credentials are increasingly unreliable. She has spent her career inside the systems where hiring decisions are made, working with executive teams, managers, and early-career talent to see where workforce strategies break down and what performs better in practice. Katie is known for translating skills-based hiring, apprenticeships, and early-career pathways into operating models that reduce risk, improve execution, and hold up as roles evolve. Her perspective is shaped by real delivery, not theory, and by seeing the same failure points surface across industries and company sizes. She has served as Program Chair for the American Staffing Association IDEA Council and has been recognized by SIA and Pride Global for leadership in workforce innovation. She writes about hiring, apprenticeships, and workforce design with a focus on what leaders need to change now to build teams that perform under real-world conditions.