Debra Holloway

Debra Holloway walks into nonprofit chaos and leaves behind clarity, direction, and leaders who can actually execute. She works with organizations from scrappy 5-person teams to complex 500-employee institutions that are buried in competing priorities, board politics, stale strategies, and funding pressure. Her work cuts to the core problems that stall impact: drifting mission, weak leadership alignment, and strategy that lives in binders instead of behavior. While many nonprofits mistake passion and programs for a plan, Debra sees exactly where leadership, governance, and funding discipline have to lock together for the organization to survive and grow.

Her method starts with disciplined inquiry and sharp listening that exposes what most internal teams are too close to see. Through executive coaching, board development, and strategic planning, she tests assumptions, maps real decision power, and surfaces the uncomfortable truths that keep change stuck. Unlike generic consultants who deliver thick reports and vanish, Debra works shoulder to shoulder with leadership to translate strategy into management practices, change roadmaps, and grant priorities that hold up under real-world constraints. She helps teams restructure roles, reset expectations, strengthen board oversight, and align funding pursuits with actual capacity so results show up in cleaner execution, stronger governance, and grants that support strategy instead of distorting it.

In high-pressure moments when funding is tight, leadership is stretched, and the board wants answers, Debra brings disciplined calm and a bias for practical moves. Her style is straightforward, no-theatrics, and focused on what advances the mission this quarter and over the next three years. Leaders who work with her gain sharper judgment, boards get clearer about their role, and organizations move from reactive scrambling to controlled, confident progress. When the stakes are real and the room needs someone who can speak fluently in strategy, people, governance, and grants, Debra is the one you want at the table.