About me
Alex Ahlstrom is an incoming consultant at Bain & Company in Washington, DC and a dual MBA/M.Ed. candidate at University of Virginia. A former higher-education marketing researcher, he has spoken on the impact of AI on universities and on how institutions use marketing analytics and digital strategy to better understand prospective students and build institutional trust. His work sits at the intersection of education, marketing, and social change, with research focused on how culture shapes classroom environments and how data and narrative can help translate ideas into durable institutional and societal impact.