Holly Thompson is an executive coach and organizational consultant with more than 30 years of experience working with nonprofit organizations across a range of sectors and missions. She partners with leaders and teams to navigate change, strengthen leadership, develop strategy, and build organizations that are better equipped to serve their communities.

Holly holds an MPA in Nonprofit Management from NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service and a certificate in Executive-Level Nonprofit Management from Columbia Business School. She is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation, with advanced executive coaching training through the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI) and Accelerating Coach Excellence (ACE).

Approach

Holly believes effective leadership starts with understanding people, their challenges, and the environment in which they work. She takes the time to listen and understand each organization’s culture, history, and goals before determining how best to help.

Her approach combines thoughtful questioning, strategic partnership, organizational assessment, planning, and executive coaching, tailored to the needs of each leader and team.

For Holly, strong leadership and healthy organizations go hand in hand. Helping leaders grow is part of building stronger teams, better ways of working, and organizational cultures that can adapt and thrive.

Her focus is on creating lasting change — developing the leadership, structures, and capabilities organizations need to keep moving forward long after the engagement ends.