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


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