Joe Reed

Joe Reed is the founder and CEO of Pulse Connect, an edtech platform that helps school leaders move from reactive data collection to proactive student support. With a background spanning social impact entrepreneurship, nonprofit leadership, and community development work — including years on the ground with at-risk communities globally — Joe brings a people-first lens to a space that has long prioritized compliance over connection. Pulse Connect was born from a simple frustration: the data schools need to help students already exists, but it's trapped in disconnected systems that were designed for procurement committees, not for teachers and principals. Pulse fixes that — giving educators one intelligent layer that surfaces what matters, reduces administrative burden, and gets students...