May Ho is the Founder of artwhich®—a sustainability consultancy that exists to empower (aspiring) leaders to reach their potential and build a better world, the Vice-Chair of the Grange Primary School Newham Governing Board, and an Educator and Researcher holding deputy course directorship and lectureship in business and management at Coventry University London and external examinership at the University of Suffolk and the University of Gloucestershire.

May’s research interests are across various disciplines, including learning and engagement, social sustainability, and landscape archaeology and sustainability. May contributes to academic research projects, such as the QAA-funded Assessment Literacy project, and is a corresponding editor and reviewer for the 2024 UI Green Metrics in Higher Education—Measuring and Reporting on Sustainability Initiatives at Higher Education Institutions. She also writes articles exploring the latest higher education trends, focusing on technology and strategy. May led/managed sustainability and operations consulting projects across various industries, including financial, professional services, design/manufacturing and consulting.

Passionate about technology’s impact on learning and engagement, May is a member of various initiatives in HE, including the Active Learning CoP at Coventry University, the Education for Mental Health SIG led by academics at KCL, and the AI SIG led by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers.

Before embarking on her career as an educator/researcher in HE, she had over 12 years of management and leadership experience with a focus on customer success, corporate responsibility, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and learning in management consulting, information services, technology advisory, arts and heritage, and non-profit sectors in London and Hong Kong SAR. May also had over seven years of experience in mentoring and coaching in corporate and scale-up, further education, and non-profit organisation settings, such as the CMI Women Leadership programmes at SERC in Northern Ireland, which positively boosted women leaders’ confidence in presenting their ideas and drive change in their organisations throughout their careers.

May is a Chartered Manager Fellow at the Chartered Management Institute, an Advance HE Associate Fellow, a University College London (UCL) MA in Managing Archaeological Sites Graduate (Distinction), a University of Cambridge MSt in Sustainability Leadership Graduate and a University of Oxford MSc in Applied Landscape Archaeology Candidate.