“My passion for technology products started when my Dad brought home a Commodore 64.”
Experiencing the power of technology at an early age set the stage for Holly’s work as a technology entrepreneur, product leader, and organizational coach.
Book an exploratory meeting here. Or reach out directly: holly@digitalproductpartners.comCome see Holly this year!
What is she about?
Holly’s father, an astrophysicist, showed her early on that taking a scientific approach successfully creates innovation. Her professional goal is to maintain the flow of customer, user, and organizational collaboration that creates opportunities to innovate at every stage of the product development lifecycle. She is passionate about helping organizations create mindsets and systems that drive Product Thinking and fuel innovation.
An inventor of 6 patents, she believes that the potential to compete in the Digital Age exists only when organizations empower Product Thinking. All of her professional efforts are now focused on the goal of creating sustainable and human-centered opportunities for innovation through Product Thinking and Organizational Change Management.
After co-founding and selling her own early SAAS technology start up in 1997, she directed Sales and Marketing at NovoDynamics, where she launched the first USA made desktop Arabic OCR. She founded Revenue Growth Consultants in 2008. Holly was Director of Solution Delivery at TD Ameritrade, Director of Agile Business at TDA, and lived in New York City for four years, leading the Global Product Transformation at Bloomberg for both Terminal and Enterprise Data businesses. Currently, she is heads up Product Coaching at Jeff Patton Associates and is Managing Partner at Digital Product Partners, LLC.
Holly is the Mother of two awesome young adults and currently lives in Michigan, where she volunteers to rehabilitate injured show horses and with Rotary International.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
“Arthur C. Clarke”
“Helping leaders unleash the full benefits of technology is my biggest joy
….well, aside from being a Mom”
“…because humans create technology and must be empowered to collaborate across functional roles, and with customers.”
Holly has always believed that executing strategy is about empowering the right people with the right data to collaborate at the right time. She has found that Product Thinking enables Strategy to flow through to successful execution, creating innovation and organizational success.
She is acknowledged in Jeff Patton’s 2014 book User Story Mapping, and uses the technique as a cornerstone for facilitation and training on Product Strategy.
Multi-Industry and International Background
Holly has lived and worked in Sri Lanka, Brazil, UK, and Japan.
She has experience across a diversity of industries including Finance, Manufacturing, Publishing, Healthcare, Insurance, and Construction.
Innovation and Product Thinking Talks
Dynamic, inspiring, and informative. Holly speaks on subjects including Product Thinking, Innovation, Organizational Change, and Servant Leadership
Connecting Strategy to Execution
Virtual, Hybrid, or Onsite, Holly is an expert facilitator of collaborative Product Strategy sessions, where she helps you translate organizational and product strategy into easily communicated executables that have Product Thinking built-in.
Enabling you to Pivot to Success
Enable your organization to use the right data at the right time to make sure you are building the right things. Holly helps you use Product Thinking to take pragmatic leadership steps to avoid the common pit-falls of Agile and Scaled Agile adoptions.