The Career Key Team

Chief Operating Officer

Kate Bates brings over 20 years of operations experience, most recently as COO then CEO of a digital media company and has worked at the executive level for several highly regarded companies including Hasbro, Microsoft and Amazon.com. Her focus is building scalable organizations. When she is not with her husband or adult children she loves to cook, garden and read.

Kate has a Bachelor of Science in Organizational Behavior and Business Administration from the University of San Francisco, an Associates in Business Finance and Accounting and in 2019 she completed Cornell's Diversity and Inclusion executive program.

Chief Technology Officer

For over 20 years, Douglas Coutts has helped organizations to achieve breakthrough results and deploy innovative business models enabled by information technology and the Internet. His plays a dual role of defining information technology strategy and building effective technology delivery teams. When not building software, Doug spends as much time as possible photographing creatures underwater or hiking in the mountains.

Douglas is a graduate of Carleton University and earned his Bachelor of Industrial Design from the Faculty of Engineering.

President and CEO

In 2006, Juliet Wehr Jones joined Career Key as Vice President after 10 years helping people understand and resolve workplace problems as a labor and employment lawyer. Raised in a family of educators, she is a certified Global Career Development Facilitator and co-author of Career Key eBooks on choosing careers and college majors. She loves psychology and technology, figuring out how to combine them on the road to achieving Career Key's vision: career well-being for all.

She graduated from Princeton University and the Seattle University School of Law.

Founders

In 1997, Dr. Lawrence K. Jones (Larry) and his wife Jeanine Wehr Jones founded Career Key because they wanted to help people and their families, worldwide, lead happy and more satisfying lives. By providing accurate, practical career and education advice to everyone, they hope to empower people to make informed decisions and act in their best self-interest and, ultimately, the best interests of their country.

Jeanine is a graduate of Stetson University and received her master's degree in library science from N.C. Central University. She retired as the media specialist at the alternative, public Phillips High School in Raleigh, N.C.