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Holly Thompson

ACCOUNT MANAGER

With versatility in building relationships, crunching numbers, shepherding workflows, and strategically connecting dots, Holly Thompson offers a robust partnership to our clients as their Account Manager.

Her diverse background in public and non-profit sectors includes election administration, overseeing cultural re-granting programs, communicating regulatory requirements for Florida’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation, and managing operations for a community theatre.

In 2021, she furthered her understanding of the opportunities and challenges in government administration by completing the Certified Public Manager program at Florida State University.

A helper at heart, Holly currently preps food for Meals on Wheels, supports riverbank and trail clean-up along the James River, and facilitates Opening Minds Through Art, a program celebrating people with dementia.

Holly Thompson

Core competencies

  • Strategic planning
  • Process improvement
  • Partner research and stakeholder engagement activities
  • Meeting facilitation
  • Reporting
  • Storytelling
  • Technical Writing
  • Conference planning (e.g., abstracts,  presentations, speech writing)
  • Data collection, management, and analysis
  • State & federal grant development, writing, and management
  • Team development and coaching
  • Stakeholder/team/project management
  • Vendor sourcing and management
  • Account management
  • Financial reporting
  • Budget management

Likes

Moroccan flavors
Funky dance floors
Giving compliments to strangers
Kayaking cypress-lined creeks
Pushing outside my comfort zone

Dislikes

Horse flies
Closed minds
Too-tight shoes
Watching people brush their teeth
Grudges

Little-known fact

I recently moved to Richmond, Virginia from Tallahassee, Florida after an around-the-world backpacking sabbatical during which I perfected my ability to read timetables for trains and turn strangers into friends.