Holli is the Founder and President of Intentional Philanthropy, a boutique, donor-focused advisory and management firm designed to meet the diverse needs of individual donors, families and independent foundations. She has worked in business consulting, nonprofit leadership, grass-roots community building, and in ministry. Holli approaches her work with both pragmatism and strategic vision. She appreciates the legal, tax, and grantmaking responsibilities of private foundations as well as the creativity needed to bring about community impact. As an experienced facilitator, convener, mediator, gentle disturbance generator, bridge builder, and critical thinker, Holli understands and effectively navigates the complexities of foundations.
Prior to founding Intentional Philanthropy, Holli served as Managing Director at Arabella Advisors, leading a client service team providing strategic planning, foundation management, family engagement and “beyond dollars” grantmaking strategies to individual donors and family foundations. From 2001 to 2008, she served on the senior leadership team of Exponent Philanthropy (then the Association of Small Foundations), facilitating hundreds of foundation workshops, overseeing the completion of ASF’s Trustee Leadership Seminar and launching the association’s first Next Generation Seminar for multi-generational family foundations. Holli holds a B.A. with honors from the College of William & Mary, completed graduate work in International Economics at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, and studied Family Systems Theory at the Bowen Center for the Family at Georgetown University.