Melissa Kong, MBA, MChem

Melissa Kong, MBA, MChem

Sr. Consultant (she/her/hers)

Melissa Kong is an Analyst at Edgility Consulting, where she leverages her international experience and HR thought leadership to provide competitive, sustainable, and transparent compensation and talent management consulting. With a strong background in education and business administration, Melissa excels in designing compensation strategies that attract and retain top talent.

Melissa’s role at Edgility involves a dynamic blend of strategic analysis and hands-on client engagement. She plays a key role in creating salary structures, facilitating workshops, and presenting findings to clients, ensuring that they are equipped with the insights and tools necessary to achieve their talent management goals.

Melissa’s contributions include:

  • Leveraging her experience working in Malaysia and the US, to bring a global understanding of compensation and talent management practices, allowing her to tailor strategies to diverse cultural and organizational contexts.
  • Conducting comprehensive market analyses to develop financial models that inform compensation recommendations.
  • Informing strategies that Increase equity and enhance employee engagement and retention for various nonprofit clients.
  • Authoring articles on critical HR topics such as employee onboarding and talent sharing.
  • Developing comprehensive job level structures and compensation recommendations by benchmarking roles against industry standards.

Before joining Edgility, Melissa worked at Connectivity Capital, where she developed HR strategies to support the expansion of companies in frontier markets. She also held leadership roles at Teach For Malaysia, overseeing programs and partnerships to improve educational outcomes. Her experience in evaluating compensation and benefits policies at IHH Healthcare further solidified her expertise in creating compensation structures.

Melissa holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, where she led initiatives to improve inclusion for international students. She also earned an MChem from the University of Oxford, equipping her with a strong foundation in research and analysis.

 

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Melissa Kong, MBA, MChem

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