Holly Green
The biggest threat to your business may not be new technologies, changing markets or unseen competitors. It’s what you think you know about how to successfully lead a business.
As CEO and Managing Director of THE HUMAN FACTOR, Inc., Holly helps business leaders and their companies achieve excellence by creating clarity on what winning looks like and determining how to get there. She will help you achieve alignment and focus your organization so everyone is in the same race. Her unique approach to strategic agility, alignment and engagement ‐ based on the approach Pause, Think, Focus, Run ‐ provides the tools, techniques, and skills companies need to reach their destinations and achieve their goals.
An experienced business leader and behavioral scientist, Holly has a rare combination of extensive academic training and in‐the‐trenches experience working in and leading organizations. As president of The Ken Blanchard Company, she led the established company in a new and more focused strategic direction. As president of LumMed, she helped launch the startup biotech firm.
As a consultant, Holly is frequently hired by companies such as Microsoft, Expedia, Nokia, Edwards LifeSciences, Hilton Worldwide and Google to help them compete more effectively in today’s uncertain markets. She helps these companies get clear on what winning looks like, get obsessive about achieving it, and get aligned and engaged to get there. Market leaders of all sizes have used Holly’s proprietary process, Inform, Inspire and EngageTM, to learn how to move fast with focus and flexibility.
In addition to her consulting work, Holly delivers highly acclaimed keynote presentations and workshops to tradeshow conventions, industry gatherings, and business meetings. A polished and engaging speaker, Holly has headlined hundreds of gatherings around the world. She is one of the highest rated speakers for Vistage, the world’s largest CEO membership group, and has received three Speaker‐of‐the‐Year awards.
Featured on numerous TV and radio shows including NBC, ABC, Fox News, and NPR, Holly is a frequently quoted expert and has been in USA Today, Investor’s Business Daily, The Los Angeles Times, BusinessWeek and the Wall Street Journal among others. She is a regular contributor to Forbes and a highlighted expert on numerous leadership, strategic planning, and innovation blogs.
Holly holds a Bachelor’s degree in behavioral sciences and a Master of Science degree in organization development from American University in Washington, D.C. Her postgraduate studies are in neurophysiology. She is an adjunct professor at Webster University, teaching courses in the graduate program. She also teaches in the executive education program at San Diego State University, and is the founder of the Management Development Institute offered there.
Holly’s top selling book, More Than a Minute: How to be an Effective Leader & Manager in Today’s Changing World (printed in nine languages and distributed globally) goes beyond the theory of leading and managing by providing practical, action‐oriented information. Holly has contributed to several other best‐selling books including Shift Happens. Her next book, Using Your Brain...to win in today’s hyper paced world, will be published in mid 2012.
Holly is a board member of Total Training, Inc., the San Diego Employer Association, and KBM Facility Solutions as well as the Chairmen’s Roundtable, a nonprofit organization of senior executives providing pro bono strategic advice to mid‐sized businesses. She serves as a mentor in California State University’s Center for Leadership and Mentoring. She also provides strategic advice and guidance to several 501(c)3 organizations.
Podcast:
May 30, 2012
01: A Gold Backed Note From Greece... Really?
Join Brian as he brings you the latest development in the Greek financial tragedy and explains how the EU has all but agreed that Greece and other bailout needed countries would be required to back all future bailout funds with gold and other hard assets.
02: Knowing What Success Looks Like For Your Company is Key to Sharing the Vision With Your Team
Brian welcomes Holly Green to the show, whose an acclaimed international speaker, business consultant, and behavioral scientist frequently hired by companies such as Microsoft, Expedia, Nokia, and Google to help them compete more effectively in today’s uncertain markets. Find out how her unique approach to strategic agility, alignment and engagement provides the tools companies need to reach their destinations.
03: Our Brain Needs Space to "Think and Pause" to Be Effective in Today's Busy World
Holly Green shares important steps to follow to help you harness your inner focus and achieve amazing results. Learn why unlearning what you know can often be the difference between achieving new levels of success and settling for mediocrity.
04: Reboot & Reload: Learn How Busy Employees Could Be Hurting Your Business
The Human Factor's Holly Green talks about the biggest threat to your business and how to take control of it. Find out how busy employees who do not understand your vision can be wasting time, money and resources and how you can help them focus their efforts on what is really important to your organization.
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