Anna Bao
0-1 Builder, Operator, Community Architect
Former Education Founder Turned Consultant
I am a founder turned consultant focused on creating products and programs for Gen Z career navigation to startups, higher education, and workforce development.Currently, I lead a community of 400+ post-secondary and higher education innovators in NYC.
How I Transform Ideas into Results
0-1 Operations and Optimization - Building scalable processes and automations from onboarding, to training, to feedback loops, to cost cutting.
Go To Market Strategy in Education - Selling to parents and building partnerships to sell to schools for your first 100 customers.
Rapid Product Prototyping - Human centered design, user research and journey, market scoping and demographic analysis and web development using no code tools.
Program Management and Design - Design tracks and pathways, allocate resources and implement efficiently with dashboards that measure short and long term metrics.
Community Building for Innovation - Strategic engagement, facilitation, sponsorship, and leveraging events and programming for both in person and online networks.
Featured Clients
Common Group <> Colorado OEDIT's Opportunity Next : Building career exposure tools for the $25M Scholarship Fund.
Future of Higher Education(FOHE): Lead generation, network operations and automation.
Other Mentions
Kleido: A career advice marketplace for students to connect with professionals and a attempt to bring social capital directly to students. Selected as “Top Immigrant Leader” in NY by Primary Ventures.
Cornell Tech Studio Coach for 150 master students on product development and experimentation.
Former Techstars Associate
Writings/Resources
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