Melody Badgett

Melody is a former management consultant with Deloitte Consulting, IBM Consulting — Global Services and an entrepreneur. She helped grow an internet strategy consulting startup, Mainspring, focused in applying digital technology to business, bought by IBM. She then helped build IBM’s Institute for Business Value as a senior manager. She also was a founding Managing Director of a global alliance of 1,200 companies focused on environmental philanthropy, partnering with Patagonia to build 1% for the Planet. Her unique combination of experience in strategy consulting, environment, and business, as well as in leading a global nonprofit organization from its start to its successful existence in 44 countries, required effective partnership building and relationship management every step of the way.