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Holly G. Green

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As CEO and Managing Director of THE HUMAN FACTOR, Inc., Holly helps business leaders and their companies achieve excellence. She will help you get clear on what winning looks like, get obsessive about achieving it, and get aligned and engaged to get there. 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 As CEO and Managing Director of THE HUMAN FACTOR, Inc., Holly helps business leaders and their companies achieve excellence. She will help you get clear on what winning looks like, get obsessive about achieving it, and get aligned and engaged to get there. 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. Market leaders of all sizes have used Holly’s proprietary process, Inform, Inspire and Engage™, 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.
Holly has been featured on numerous TV and radio shows including NBC, ABC, Fox News, and NPR. She 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 and a highlighted expert on numerous leadership, strategic planning, and innovation blogs.

Leveraging her post graduate studies in neurophysiology, Holly is passionate about exploring and making better use of the way our brains work the way they work at work. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in behavioral sciences and a Master of Science degree in organization development from American University in Washington, D.C. 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 two other best-selling books, Shift Happens, and A Cup of Cappuccino, Vol. II.

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.
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	1 Habit: 100 Habits from the World’s Happiest Achievers by Steven Samblis (Goodreads Author), Tony Alessandra, Holly G. Green (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	More Than a Minute: How to Be an Effective Leader and Manager in Today's Changing World 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Cup of Cappuccino for the Entrepreneur's Spirit Volume II by Jeretta Horn Nord, Cindy Patterson Thompson, Holly G. Green (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Using Your Brain to Win in today's hyper-paced world 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shift Happens: America's Premier Experts Reveal Their Biggest Secrets to Help You Thrive in the New Economy by J.W. Dicks (editor), Nick Nanton (editor), Holly G. Green (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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