
Melanie Ryan
Professionally, I'm a Business Development Consultant. I specialize in working with professionals in architecture + design, art, placemaking and the culture that orbits them.
My passion for the built environment has led to careers as Accounts Lead at a creative agency representing award-winning architectural clients to Marketing Director for a prolific Southern California real estate developer to Business Development consulting for clients positioning themselves in Los Angeles.
I bring together the like-minded and uncover collaborations.
I aim to work with innovators revered in their industries, that wish to expand brand positioning and nurture opportunities in untapped markets.
I graduated from Rollins College with my B.A Degree in Environmental Studies and I especially seek out clients and projects for improving public space; in the city-dwelling environments many of us are often in.
2020: Started a networking group with net, called good-form. To promote designers and creatives to actively engage at architecturally significant locations.
2023: Created Standing Invitation, a standing monthly invitation to do x(1) leisurely thing with me. "All intellectual improvement arises from leisure." - Samuel Johnson.
A supporter of: Arts and culture organizations; RxART, LA Nomadic Division.
I am a member of professional organizations: LAHQ, ULI LA Next, and the AC-LA Communications Committee.
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Personally: I co-created a "moonlight design studio" as a creative investment outlet with my architect partner, Todd Sussman. We focus on developing our own private residential projects for ourselves - including our first home we designed and built from the ground up, in Los Angeles.
Nicknamed; The Jungle Gym House, featured here in Architectural Digest and dwell.
2023: We have begun our second ground up residential project together, located in an artsy beach town in Florida. The project is to be a creative reprieve in nature, closer to family, while continuing to bolster relationships with clients and partners expanding their reach in Florida, the Caribbean and beyond.
Some longer term goals: I'd like to focus on more design for social and environmental impact endeavors.
Opening a showroom space with programming, continue to focus on larger scale projects that solve urban issues, and discover new material solutions.
Please connect anytime to chat about ideas.