May Ho is the Founder of artwhich®—a sustainability consultancy that exists to empower leaders to reach their potential, Vice-Chair of Grange Primary School Newham Governing Board, and Educator and multi-/inter-disciplinary Researcher holding deputy course directorship and lectureship in business and management at Coventry University London and external examinership at the University of Suffolk/Gloucestershire. May also serves as an Assessor for University of Cambridge online sustainability courses. Passionate about technology’s impact on engagement, May is a member of initiatives, e.g. Education for Mental Health SIG at KCL and AI SIG at JISC.

May’s research interests are learning, engagement, social sustainability, and landscape archaeology. May contributes to academic research, e.g., the QAA-funded Assessment Literacy project, and is a peer reviewer for the Social Responsibility Journal and the corresponding editor/reviewer for the UI Green Metrics in Higher Education—Measuring and Reporting on Sustainability Initiatives at Higher Education Institutions. May was part of the review committee for the 2025 International Conference in Water and Food Security in the Face of Climate Change hosted by the University of Doha for Science and Technology. She was the session chair and academic presenter and presented her sustainability research at the SRRNet International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility. She writes articles exploring education trends, technology and strategy for digital newspapers and magazines, i.e. Volt.

May has 12+ years of management and leadership experience in 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 led sustainability projects across industries, including financial/professional services, design/manufacturing, and consulting. May also has 7+ years of experience mentoring/coaching in corporate/scale-up, education, and non-profits, e.g. CMI Women Leadership programmes at SERC, which positively boosted women leaders’ confidence in presenting ideas/driving change in their organisations.

May is a CMI Chartered Manager Fellow, Advance HE Fellow (PGCert in Academic Practice in Higher Education, Distinction from Coventry University), holds an MA in Managing Archaeological Sites, Distinction from UCL, a MSt in Sustainability Leadership from the University of Cambridge and is a University of Oxford MSc in Applied Landscape Archaeology Candidate.