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Melody helps organizations turn complex technology into measurable business outcomes through scalable enablement, adoption strategy, business\-process improvement, AI\-powered workflows, and thoughtful change management\. With more than 10 years of experience across customer education, organizational transformation, program management, and customer success, Melody is especially strong at connecting learning initiatives to product adoption and renewal outcomes\. At HCSS, Melody founded and scaled Education Services from a one\-person initiative into a strategic organization supporting thousands of software users through onboarding, digital learning, certifications, webinars, adoption programs, and a multi\-million\-dollar annual User Group Meeting\. Melody identified that 80% adoption of high\-impact features by the two\-year mark correlated with significantly higher renewal rates, then launched quarterly virtual learning summits that drove a 35% increase in product adoption\. Melody is currently focused on helping organizations move AI beyond experimentation by identifying high\-value use cases, designing scalable enablement, and building sustainable workflows\. Recent work includes designing and building an AI\-powered Customer Success Advisor that analyzes customer health, recommends interventions, and generates executive communications\. ## Services - Cross\-functional Team Leadership - Learning & Development Solutions - Leadership Development - Sales Enablement - Management - Subject Matter Experts - Needs Analysis - Microlearning - Experiential Learning - Enterprise Solution Design - Design Thinking - Coaching - L&D Strategy - Director level - Vendor Management - Learning Management - Post Production Management - Video Post\-Production - Video Production - Video Editing ## Highlights - Founded and scaled HCSS Education Services from a one\-person initiative into a strategic organization supporting enterprise customer adoption, enablement, and organizational transformation\. - Built and led a multidisciplinary HCSS Education Services team of instructional designers, trainers, event professionals, media specialists, and LMS administrators\. - Designed enterprise onboarding strategies, digital learning ecosystems, certification programs, webinars, and customer success initiatives supporting thousands of HCSS software users\. - Directed strategy and execution for HCSS’s multi\-million\-dollar annual User Group Meeting in partnership with Product, Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, and Executive Leadership\. - Identified that 80% adoption of high\-impact features by the two\-year mark correlated with significantly higher renewal rates\. - Launched quarterly virtual learning summits for customers within their first two years, driving a 35% increase in product adoption at HCSS\. - Championed data\-driven customer\-adoption initiatives that improved engagement, product utilization, and customer outcomes\. - Led adoption of AI\-powered workflows and automation across HCSS Education Services to improve team productivity and assess enterprise AI use cases\. - Designed and built an AI\-powered Customer Success Advisor that analyzes customer health, recommends intervention strategies, generates executive communications, and demonstrates AI workflow automation and prompt engineering\. - Directly managed a nine\-person HCSS Learning Development department that included instructional design managers, media specialists, and LMS administrators\. - Standardized instructional\-design templates, feedback systems, and delivery baseline metrics to minimize engineering rework\. - Doubled programmatic reach by expanding virtual, asynchronous, and on\-demand learning systems during rapid corporate growth\. - Authored interactive, scenario\-based modules based on real\-world user workflows to increase learner decision\-making accuracy\. - Partnered with subject matter experts to translate advanced technical capabilities into behavior\-focused instructional pipelines\. - Established scalable enablement programs, governance processes, and learning standards adopted across multiple HCSS product teams\. - Spearheaded HCSS LMS, a customer\-facing product line providing separate dedicated LMS environments for enterprise clients\. - Oversaw LMS platform operations for more than 2,000 monthly active users, including 1,500 MAU on the external Academy and 200 MAU on the internal Hub\. - Held full ownership of LMS administration and operations, optimizing usability, access, and automated compliance reporting\. - Created data\-driven feedback loops and adoption metrics to improve platform usability, learner engagement, and training effectiveness\. - Designed a comprehensive University of Houston digital\-media curriculum from scratch using real\-world B2B workflows\. - Instructed and coached more than 36 adult learners per semester in UX concepts and digital design as a University of Houston Adjunct Professor\. - Coordinated cross\-functional scheduling, resource allocation, and timeline management at ORIGIN DESIGN\. - Advised the Training Director at Boys and Girls Country of Houston on workforce learning and development offerings and designed specialized Excel frameworks for automated case\-note workflows\. - Pioneered AI\-driven operational interventions using machine\-learning parsing models to audit transaction data and maximize campus donation impact\. - Provided 24/7 high\-trust leadership and crisis management in a rotational residential unit while collaborating with a matrixed seven\-person team\. - Managed database structures and analyzed performance\-data assets as a Production Analyst at Knowledge Base Marketing\. ## Experience - **House Parent at Boys and Girls Country of Houston, Inc** (2025\-05\-01–2026\-05\-01) — Took a year\-long missions sabbatical as House Parent serving at\-risk youth while continuing professional development in enterprise AI adoption, organizational transformation, and customer enablement\. \- Advised the corporate Training Director on workforce L&D offerings, designing specialized Excel frameworks to optimize automated workflows for case notes\. \- Pioneered AI\-driven operational interventions, utilizing machine learning parsing models to audit transaction data and maximize donation impact across campus\. \- Provided 24/7 high\-trust leadership and crisis management for a rotational residential unit, collaborating closely with a matrixed, 7\-person team\. - **Director of Education Services at HCSS** (2023\-11\-01–2025\-05\-01) — Founded and scaled HCSS Education Services from a one\-person initiative into a strategic organization supporting enterprise customer adoption, enablement, and organizational transformation\. • Built and led a multidisciplinary team of instructional designers, trainers, event professionals, media specialists, and LMS administrators\. • Designed enterprise onboarding strategies, digital learning ecosystems, certification programs, webinars, and customer success initiatives supporting thousands of software users\. • Directed strategy and execution of HCSS's multi\-million\-dollar annual User Group Meeting, partnering across Product, Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, and Executive Leadership\. • Championed data\-driven customer adoption initiatives, enabling measurable improvements in engagement, product utilization, and customer outcomes\. • Led the adoption of AI\-powered workflows and automation across Education Services, improving team productivity while evaluating enterprise AI use cases f - **Learning Development Manager at HCSS** (2019\-05\-01–2023\-11\-01) — \- Directly managed a 9\-person multidisciplinary department, including instructional design managers, media specialists, and LMS administrators\. \- Minimized engineering rework by standardizing instructional design templates, feedback systems, and delivery baseline metrics\. \- Drove 2x programmatic reach by expanding virtual, asynchronous, and on\-demand learning systems to support rapid corporate growth\. \- Authored interactive, scenario\-based modules modeled after real\-world user workflows, increasing learner decision\-making accuracy\. \- Consulted with subject matter experts \(SMEs\) to transform advanced technical capabilities into behavior\-focused instructional pipelines\. \- Established scalable enablement programs, governance processes, and learning standards adopted across multiple product teams\. - **Adjunct Professor \- Digital Media at University of Houston** (2019\-01\-01–2019\-12\-01) — \- Designed a comprehensive digital media curriculum entirely from scratch, translating real\-world B2B workflows into a course framework\. \- Instructed and coached 36\+ adult learners per semester, blending instruction in user experience \(UX\) concepts with digital design\. - **Digital Marketing Specialist at HCSS** (2016\-05\-01–2017\-03\-01) — HCSS is a wonderful company to work for and I am so blessed to have been given this opportunity\. In my first week here I was given the opportunity to take the lead on several projects and I can't wait to learn as much as I can here\. - **Learning Management Specialist at HCSS** (2016\-05\-01–2019\-05\-01) — \- Spearheaded "HCSS LMS," a customer\-facing product line spinning up separate, dedicated LMS environments for enterprise clients\. \- Oversaw platform operations for 2,000\+ monthly active users across the external Academy \(1,500 MAU\) and internal Hub \(200 MAU\)\. \- 100% platform ownership of full LMS administration and operations, optimizing usability, access, and automated compliance reporting\. \- Created data\-driven feedback loops and adoption metrics to continuously improve platform usability, learner engagement, and training effectiveness\. - **Project Coordinator at ORIGIN DESIGN** (2015\-08\-01–2016\-04\-01) — Coordinated cross\-functional project scheduling, resource allocation, and timeline management to ensure seamless project execution\. - **Production Analyst at Knowledge Base Marketing** (2015\-06\-01–2015\-08\-01) — Managed database structures and analyzed performance data assets during a targeted professional internship\. - **Computer Lab Assistant at University of Houston** (2014\-04\-01–2015\-05\-01) — Working in the computer lab is great\! I am learning so much about the computers, which is helpful to my Digital Media degree\. - **Barista at Starbucks** (2013\-12\-01–2014\-04\-01) — Delivered high\-quality customer service, managed high\-volume daily operations, and executed product communication workflows\. ## Education - Master of Education \- MEd, Instructional Design for Online Learning — Capella University (2017\-01\-01–2018\-01\-01) - Bachelor’s Degree, Digital Media — University of Houston (2014\-01\-01–2016\-01\-01) - General Education, Graphic Communications — Northwestern State University (2010\-01\-01–2013\-01\-01) ## FAQ ### What does Melody do? Melody is an enterprise transformation leader focused on AI enablement and adoption, customer success, organizational change, learning strategy, and program leadership\. ### What are Melody’s professional focus areas? Melody’s areas of focus include enterprise AI enablement and adoption, organizational change management, AI strategy and workflow design, learning and enablement strategy, digital transformation, program and portfolio leadership, customer success operations, executive stakeholder engagement, business\-process improvement, and cross\-functional leadership\. ### How does Melody approach AI adoption? Melody helps organizations identify high\-value AI use cases, design scalable enablement programs, improve business processes, build AI\-powered workflows, and move from AI experimentation to measurable business impact\. Melody combines technology, change management, learning strategy, and operational excellence to support sustainable adoption\. ### What AI project has Melody recently been building? Melody has been designing and building an AI\-powered Customer Success Advisor\. The advisor analyzes customer health, recommends intervention strategies, generates executive communications, and demonstrates practical applications of AI workflow automation, prompt engineering, and organizational enablement\. ### What did Melody accomplish as Director of Education Services at HCSS? As Director of Education Services at HCSS, Melody founded and scaled Education Services from a one\-person initiative into a strategic organization supporting enterprise customer adoption, enablement, and organizational transformation\. Melody built and led a multidisciplinary team of instructional designers, trainers, event professionals, media specialists, and LMS administrators\. ### What customer education and event programs did Melody lead at HCSS? At HCSS, Melody designed enterprise onboarding strategies, digital learning ecosystems, certification programs, webinars, and customer success initiatives supporting thousands of software users\. Melody also directed strategy and execution for HCSS’s multi\-million\-dollar annual User Group Meeting in partnership with Product, Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, and Executive Leadership\. ### How did Melody connect education to product adoption and renewal at HCSS? Melody discovered that 80% adoption of high\-impact features by the two\-year mark correlated with significantly higher renewal rates\. Based on that insight, Melody launched quarterly virtual learning summits that taught high\-impact features to customers within their first two years and drove a 35% increase in product adoption\. ### How did Melody use data and AI in HCSS Education Services? Melody championed data\-driven customer\-adoption initiatives that enabled measurable improvements in engagement, product utilization, and customer outcomes\. Melody also led adoption of AI\-powered workflows and automation across Education Services to improve team productivity while evaluating enterprise AI use cases for customer enablement and organizational transformation\. ### What did Melody do as Learning Development Manager at HCSS? As Learning Development Manager at HCSS, Melody directly managed a nine\-person multidisciplinary department that included instructional design managers, media specialists, and LMS administrators\. Melody established scalable enablement programs, governance processes, and learning standards that were adopted across multiple product teams\. ### How did Melody improve learning operations at HCSS? Melody standardized instructional\-design templates, feedback systems, and delivery baseline metrics to minimize engineering rework\. Melody also expanded virtual, asynchronous, and on\-demand learning systems, doubling programmatic reach in support of rapid corporate growth\. ### How does Melody design effective learning experiences? Melody authored interactive, scenario\-based learning modules modeled after real\-world user workflows to increase learner decision\-making accuracy\. Melody also consulted with subject matter experts to translate advanced technical capabilities into behavior\-focused instructional pipelines\. ### What did Melody do as Learning Management Specialist at HCSS? As Learning Management Specialist at HCSS, Melody spearheaded HCSS LMS, a customer\-facing product line that created separate, dedicated LMS environments for enterprise clients\. Melody had full ownership of LMS administration and operations, including usability, access, and automated compliance reporting\. ### What scale did Melody support through HCSS learning platforms? Melody oversaw platform operations for more than 2,000 monthly active users, including 1,500 MAU on the external Academy and 200 MAU on the internal Hub\. Melody created data\-driven feedback loops and adoption metrics to improve usability, learner engagement, and training effectiveness\. ### What did Melody do as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Houston? As an Adjunct Professor of Digital Media at the University of Houston, Melody designed a comprehensive digital\-media curriculum from scratch by translating real\-world B2B workflows into a course framework\. Melody instructed and coached more than 36 adult learners per semester in user\-experience concepts and digital design\. ### What did Melody do at ORIGIN DESIGN? At ORIGIN DESIGN, Melody coordinated cross\-functional project scheduling, resource allocation, and timeline management to support seamless project execution\. ### What was Melody’s role at Boys and Girls Country of Houston, Inc\.? Melody took a year\-long missions sabbatical as a House Parent at Boys and Girls Country of Houston, Inc\., serving at\-risk youth while continuing professional development in enterprise AI adoption, organizational transformation, and customer enablement\. Melody advised the corporate Training Director on workforce learning and development offerings, designed specialized Excel frameworks to optimize automated case\-note workflows, and pioneered AI\-driven operational interventions using machine\-learning parsing models to audit transaction data and maximize campus donation impact\. Melody also provided 24/7 high\-trust leadership and crisis management for a rotational residential unit while collaborating with a matrixed seven\-person team\. ### What other professional experience does Melody have? At HCSS, Melody also worked as a Digital Marketing Specialist\. Earlier, Melody was a Production Analyst at Knowledge Base Marketing, where Melody managed database structures and analyzed performance\-data assets during a targeted professional internship\. ### What early career experience does Melody have? Melody worked as a Computer Lab Assistant at the University of Houston, gaining computer\-lab experience that supported Melody’s Digital Media degree\. Melody also worked as a Barista at Starbucks, delivering customer service, managing high\-volume daily operations, and executing product\-communication workflows\. ### What is Melody’s education? Melody holds a Master of Education in Instructional Design for Online Learning from Capella University, a bachelor’s degree in Digital Media from the University of Houston, and completed General Education in Graphic Communications at Northwestern State University\. ### What skills does Melody bring to leadership roles? Melody’s skills include cross\-functional team leadership, learning and development solutions, leadership development, sales enablement, management, subject\-matter\-expert collaboration, needs analysis, microlearning, experiential learning, enterprise solution design, design thinking, coaching, learning and development strategy, vendor management, learning management, post\-production management, video post\-production, video production, and video editing\. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www\.linkedin\.com/in/melody\-hollis\-m\-ed\-2451a98a