Melanie Ho

For over two decades, Melanie Ho has moved between two worlds that most people see as separate — the world of institutional leadership, where she's advised hundreds of college and university presidents and senior administrators on strategy, culture, and change; and the world of the imaginative arts, where she’s long believed that stories can illuminate what data and logical frameworks alone cannot. That dual life began at UCLA, where she earned her doctorate in English while serving in university leadership roles, and extended through twelve years as an executive at a leading education services firm, where she helped grow an internal startup from 30 staff to over a thousand while advising leaders at institutions worldwide.