Tory Gattis

Founder of BeSomeone, Social Systems Architect focused on education

Tory Gattis, Founder of BeSomeone

Tory Gattis is the founder of BeSomeone, a non-profit organization focused on revolutionizing education for the 21st century. He is passionate about addressing the teen mental health and academic disengagement crisis through free peer-to-peer life coaching.1

Some key facts about Tory Gattis:

He previously founded Microschool Revolution PBC and co-founded Coached Schooling (now Acton Academy Champions), which aimed to create a high-tech network of affordable private schools combining eLearning, homeschooling, and traditional schooling.1
Gattis is a McKinsey consulting alum, TEDx speaker, HBR/McKinsey Management Innovation M-Prize winner, and holds an MBA and BSEE from Rice University.1
He has also founded OpenTeams LLC and Gratitude.net, a website where people could pose questions and challenges and give 'gratitude tokens' to the best answers, similar to the business models later succeeded by Quora and Yahoo Answers.1
Gattis shares his microschool journey and the Acton Academy model on his LinkedIn profile.2

Experience

Founder at BeSomeone

Founding Senior Fellow at Urban Reform Institute (2015 - Present), Strategy Advisor at Nobel Coaching & Tutoring (2020 - 2021), Founder at Microschool Revolution PBC (2017 - 2020), Co-Founder at Coached Schooling and Talent Unbound (2012 - 2017), Founder at National Innovation and Technology Museum (2011 - 2014), Founder, President, and Social Systems Architect at OpenTeams LLC (2005 - 2012), Lecturer, School of Engineering at Rice University (2011), Adjunct Faculty in Strategy at Houston Baptist University (2010), Founder at Gratitude.net (2002 - 2004), Co-Founder and Vice President at Stewart Automotive Research, LLC (1999 - 2004), Electronic Commerce Technical Manager at AMVESCAP (1998 - 1999), Consulting Associate in Business Technology at McKinsey & Company (1996 - 1998)

Education

BSEE in Computer Engineering from Rice University, with Concentration in Computer Science and Engineering, MBA in Entrepreneurship and Operations Research from Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management, GPA: 3.85