Leading with Innovation & Experience
Nectary Solutions brings vision, leadership, and collaboration to every initiative we work on.
Melanie Booth, Ed.D.—Principal
Dr. Melanie Booth has 25 years of leadership in connecting learning and work. She has worked with hundreds of colleges, universities, and organizations to facilitate advancements in the learning and work ecosystem.
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Melanie's expertise spans postsecondary education, work-based learning, experiential education, competency-based education, skills-based learning, microcredentials, distance education, quality assurance, and educational innovation—all focused on creating a learning ecosystem that works for ALL learners and workers.
She frequently serves as an expert advisor to learn-work initiatives on behalf of learners, employers, states, associations, and institutions. Whether leading large-scale initiatives or facilitating incremental change, she works at the pace and scale that fits each organization and its culture.
Melanie is particularly skilled at bringing stakeholders and partners together to design and implement future-focused solutions that meet real on-the-ground needs.
Impact
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Creating future-focused initiatives, programs, and practices that address the needs of today's learners and their workplaces, organizations, and communities
Designing and scaling programs and initiatives regionally and nationally, leading to demonstrable improvements in the 21st-century learning and work ecosystem
Coaching leaders and teams through complex organizational change
Executive Experience
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Executive Director, Credential Lab—Higher Learning Commission
Vice President for Educational Programs & Engagement—NC-SARA
Founding Executive Director—The QA Commons (Quality Assurance Commons for Higher and Postsecondary Education) / National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS)
Vice President for Educational Programming—WASC Senior College & University Commission (WSCUC)
Education
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Ed.D.—Educational Leadership and Change—Higher Educational Systems (Research focus: Adult learners), Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA
M.A.—English—Rhetoric and Writing Studies, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
B.A.—English (Emphasis: English Teacher Preparation; Minor: Speech and Language Pathology), Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
Graduate Certificates: Applied Linguistics/ESL; Online Teaching and Learning
Several certificates, credentials, and badges recognizing her ongoing professional development
A Network of Expert Partners
Nectary Solutions participates in a networked ecosystem of service. A carefully selected and curated cadre of fabulous partners - each of them pros in adjacent or supporting services - may be part of our work team. These partners have recognized expertise in areas including:
Accreditation
Board development and governance
Change leadership
Coaching
Communications and strategic messaging
Competency-based education
Grant writing and fundraising
Graphic design
Instructional design
Labor market data, jobs, and skills analysis
Learning and skills simulations, assessment, and validation
Organizational training and development
Policy - federal, state, system
State Authorization
Research and evaluation
Technological solutions