Bringing Experience, Leadership, Partners, and Humanity to the Table

Melanie Booth speaking at Educators Design Alliance convening.

Melanie Booth, Ed.D.

Dr. Melanie Booth has 25 years of leadership in connecting learning and work. Over her career she has worked directly and indirectly with hundreds of colleges, universities, and organizations to support and facilitate change in the learn and work ecosystem.

Melanie’s work has been scaled and situated through the intersections of K-12 and postsecondary education; employability, work-based, and work-placed learning; experiential and community-engaged learning; recognition of prior + concurrent learning; competency-based education; microcredentials and skills-based learning; heutagogy; distance education; quality assurance; and responsible educational innovation for a relevant and engaging 21st century learning ecosystem for ALL workers / learners.

Melanie loves bringing together stakeholders and partners to design and implement future-focused initiatives and learning solutions that meet real on-the-ground needs of participants and organizations. This work is her jam!

And A Nectary Network of Connected 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 depending on your organization or initiative’s needs and the scope of our project. These partners have recognized expertise in adjacent areas such as:

  • 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

  • And more!

Guiding Principles

Centering Human Needs First

Stakeholders are people first, so we do our work using a humans-first approach. Only after understanding people’s real-life needs will we recommend technologies, frameworks, or programmatic solutions to support the initiative’s goals and needs.

This approach helps ensure that the stakeholders and recipients of learning-related programs help define the value of, and are invested in, the initiative for the good of the learning community and their organizations, and that the desired outcomes, experiences, and impact measures are achieved.

Unapologetically Promoting Inclusivity & Recognition

Stakeholders are deeply engaged and motivated to participate and apply new ideas and skills through our participatory and inclusive methods. Traditionally underrepresented voices matter in our work to ensure we do not re-create the learn/work inequities we are trying to solve for.

We also take a strengths-based approach to make sure that what is working continues to work, and that individual and community assets are recognized and can be built upon.

#AllLearningCounts is our soapbox.

Always Bettering

Stakeholders benefit from our belief in the power of continuous improvement over the false construct of perfection.

We continually assess and refine initiatives and solutions. Stakeholder feedback, data, and direct evidence of outcomes and impact are collected, analyzed, and shared for the purposes of reflection and ongoing improvement.

Bettering - that is, getting better - takes intentionality and practice; we model and promote the benefits of this approach in our day-to-day activities.