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Thalia Ghandforoush is a Senior Manager in Deloitte’s US Higher Education practice, advising colleges and universities on AI-enabled cloud and technology innovation to modernize operations and improve experiences for students, faculty, staff, and researchers.
With more than 12 years of experience, Thalia is known for turning institutional priorities into execution-ready transformation roadmaps that connect enterprise cloud transformation, data and analytics modernization, and process redesign to the operating changes required to sustain results. She brings a human-led, AI-supported approach – pairing target operating model design with AI/technology governance, organizational change management, and workforce enablement so adoption can scale across complex, multi-stakeholder academic environments.
Thalia regularly convenes senior university and technology leaders to discuss the future of work in higher education, and she facilitates hands-on digital transformation and AI workshops to identify and prioritize high-value use cases, align on adoption and scalability, and establish practical guardrails for responsible deployment. She also extends her transformation focus beyond client work by advising nonprofit organizations on strategic transformation – translating mission goals into practical operating changes and workforce readiness outcomes – and by advocating for women and girls in STEM to strengthen diverse talent pipelines that ultimately feed higher education and research ecosystems.
Market: Deloitte United States