Holly W.
5.0
Columbia-Trained Coach | Chart Your Path & Elevate Your Career
Studied at Columiba University - Teachers College
Works at Delta Air Lines
Available December 4 at 1:30 PM UTC
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Holly’s Career Development Qualifications
Coaches professionally
Experience level: Manager
250+ people coached for Career Development
Holly has helped clients get into these companies:
Welcome to my profile! With a rich background in executive and leadership coaching, I specialize in helping senior and emerging leaders unlock their full potential. As a Columbia-trained Executive Coach, I have facilitated leadership development programs for top institutions like Columbia Business School and MIT, and have worked with global executives across various industries. My experience at Delta Air Lines and Torch has honed my ability to design and execute leadership strategies, ensuring leaders are equipped to navigate challenges and drive success. Whether you're looking to transition into a new role or enhance your leadership presence, I'm here to guide you every step of the way. Let's connect and explore how I can support your career development journey!
Holly can help with:
Skill Building
Professional Networking
Personal Branding
Networking Strategy
Holly also coaches for Leadership Development, Executive, Communication, Performance, and Team. View all.
About Holly
Hi! I'm Holly and I specialize in working with leaders at an inflection point in their careers. I help you find clarity, purpose, and direction, fueling a renewed sense of excitement and motivation in your professional life and the work that you do. Whether you're navigating a career transition, stepping into a new leadership role, wanting to enhance your skills, or seeking to reignite your passion, I am committed to being a trusted partner in your journey to success. My approach transforms the feelings of being stuck or uncertain into a clear vision of where you want to go and how to get there. Our work together will lead to tangible progress, equipping you with a detailed strategic plan and the skills and tools you need to adapt and grow continuously. By uncovering your Why and aligning your values, passions, and strengths, we'll craft your leadership approach and a career path that's not only successful but deeply fulfilling. I am committed to both supporting and challenging you, encouraging you to step beyond your comfort zone and into your greatest potential. Our journey will be transformative, marked by celebrating every milestone and achievement, big or small, and continuously refine your path to ensure it remains aligned with your values and evolving goals. Let's embark on this exciting journey together, where your potential is unleashed, and your ambitions become your reality.
Why do I coach?
Passionate about supporting leaders on their Growth Journey Holly Wright is a dynamic Columbia-trained and certified Executive Leadership Coach and a a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation. With 17 years of experience in leadership development, performance coaching, and mindfulness, Holly has empowered high-performing executives and emerging leaders across diverse industries—from startups and small businesses to multinational companies, as well as nonprofit organizations. Holly’s coaching approach is all about transformation. She partners with clients to uncover and shift familiar patterns that hinder both individual and organizational success. By raising self-awareness and boosting self-confidence, Holly accelerates her clients' ability to lead and communicate effectively in today’s fast-paced, competitive global market. Her proven track record includes guiding executives through the complexities of rapidly evolving roles and responsibilities, helping them prioritize, break free from self-limiting beliefs, and drive meaningful change. Specializing in executive integration, Holly excels at helping leaders navigate transitions into new roles—whether within their current organization or a new one. Drawing on a model she developed through her executive coach training at Columbia University and grounded in evidence-based research from Ivy League business schools, Holly collaborates with leaders to craft a strategy for adapting to new corporate cultures, building credibility, engaging key stakeholders, and establishing themselves as influential leaders. Holly’s coaching is deeply rooted in values-based leadership, guiding her clients to lead authentically and enhance their presence using strengths-based and positive psychology approaches. As a Licensed Neethling Brain Instrument (NBI)™ Consultant and a certified SOCIAL STYLE & Versatility® instructor, she brings a wealth of tools to her practice. Holly’s unique background as an alpine snowboard coach on the World Cup Circuit also enriches her performance coaching, offering a distinctive perspective on achieving peak performance. With Holly as your coach, you’re not just stepping into a new role—you’re stepping into a new level of leadership and potential.
Work Experience
Program Manager / Facilitator / Coach
Delta Air Lines
January 2023 - Present
As a Program Manager, Leadership Development on Delta’s Global Leadership, Learning & Development (GLLD) team, Holly helps accelerate the execution of programs and strategies to meet Delta’s growing demand and commitment to developing and growing their leadership pipeline. Holly is responsible for leading the design and execution of the enterprise leadership development strategy, collaborating with divisional learning leaders to create a cohesive approach to achieving Delta’s strategic priorities through leadership development. Holly also oversees new leader development across the organization which includes end-to-end oversight and coordination, including communicating with participants and their leaders, coordinating contracts with third-party vendors, executing leadership assessments, working with the GLLD Design Team to develop the learning experience, and tracking overall program effectiveness through evaluation surveys, data collection and analysis. In addition, Holly leverages data visualization to tell the impact story to various stakeholders and senior leaders. Holly serves as subject matter expert for numerous GLLD initiatives, advising on topics such as coaching, values, communication, leadership accelerator journeys, emerging talent initiatives, and more. She stays connected to her work and its impact by regularly facilitating in leadership development programs, workshops, and trainings. Strategy , Consulting and +7 skills
Leadership Coach
Torch
July 2022 - Present
Provides executive and leadership coaching to senior and emerging leaders in startups and established tech companies, focusing on managing effective teams, navigating uncertainty, leadership presence and other leadership development areas. Facilitates 360 assessments and conducts feedback sessions. Leadership Development Coaching and Executive Coaching
Leadership Coach
ExecOnline
May 2018 - Present
I facilitate the learning journeys of global executives participating in leadership development programs developed by Columbia Business School, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, MIT, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and Yale School of Management in subjects including strategy, operational improvement, change management, finance, global management, team building, and leadership skills. I provide one-on-one coaching, group coaching, team coaching, and project feedback, and also lead live learning forums, helping participants enhance their learning, accelerate project implementation, and integrate their learnings into their work post-program. Leadership Development, Copywriting and +5 skills
Principal Consultant
Wright Path Coaching
November 2016 - Present
As an executive coach, I collaborate with global executives to help them achieve their career goals, broaden their leadership capabilities, successfully navigate challenges, and maximize their potential. My specialties include executive transitions and integrations, and I have helped many of my clients find where their true passions lie and realign their career goals accordingly. I accomplish this by utilizing a decade of extensive experience facilitating groups of global executives, in multiple industries, on their strategy projects, and I build upon that experience with the principles, processes, and frameworks put forth by Columbia University and the International Coaching Federation. My ideal clients are executives who operate at senior and middle management levels, who are looking to identify new opportunities, overcome challenges, or successfully transition into a new role. People that I’ve partnered with have said that I’ve helped them: bring clarity to their challenges, gain new perspectives, confidently make decisions, and increase their effectiveness both on and off the job. I work to create a thought-provoking, open dialogue with my clients to help them maximize their professional and personal potential. My core values of honesty, loyalty, growth, and fun guide my coaching sessions where my goal is helping you achieve yours. I partner with organizations offering my skills and expertise providing support for their leadership development programs as a facilitator, coach, and moderator, helping participants enhance their learning, accelerate project implementation and integrate their learnings into their work post-program. Leadership Development, Training Workshops and +7 skills
Coach | Facilitator
Enrich
August 2022 - January 2023
enrich is a curated community that connects leaders across top companies to share best practices, gain external perspective and grow in their careers via thoughtful peer matches, mastermind groups, and expert-led topic-based discussions. Public Speaking, Coaching and +2 skills
Holly was also given offers to work at
M&T Bank
The Wharton School
Darden School of Business
Columbia Business School
Palisades Tahoe
Education
Columiba University - Teachers College
Executive & Organizational Coaching
2016 - 2017
Grade: Level 2 Columbia-trained Executive Coach. Successfully completed the front-end intensive, practicum, and Advanced Coach Intensive for the Columbia Coaching Certification Program. Passed both written and oral certification exams at the highest level currently granted by the program, which parallels the Professional Certified Coach Level for the ICF. The Internal Coach Intensive focuses on the unique requirements needed to help organizations build and grow internal coaching programs and supporting systems.
State University of New York College at Potsdam
Bachelor’s Degree , Art Education
1998 - 2002
4 Reviews
Overall Rating
5.0
Holly has helped clients get into these companies: