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Holly Pendleton
Holly Pendleton isn’t in the business of “consulting,” managing transactional change, or settling for incremental outcomes—she's dedicated to paradigm-shifting transformations that restores lives and shapes the future.
As Founder and Managing Partner of Kinetic Partners, Holly partners with visionary CEOs who face real headwinds and refuse to compromise. With their Executive Teams and Boards, she ensures leaders confront the obstacles that demand attention at the very top.
Known for guiding through complexity, naming hard truths, and equipping leaders to elevate their impact, Holly blends research-based methods with decades of senior leadership experience across industries. She’s worked both as a trusted external advisor and amidst the C-suite, navigating the high-stakes challenges of consequential change.
Her perspective was shaped by years of frustration with traditional “change management” failures, a relentless pursuit of solutions that deliver, and a close partnership with world-renowned expert, Daryl Conner. The result: a proven approach grounded in research, designed to address known risk patterns, and built on the conviction that the magnitude of change must always be matched with the right level of attention, expertise, and rigor.
Strategic Change Advisor – Guiding CEOs and their teams through disruptive change to deliver lasting transformation.
High-Stakes Executive Coach – Amplifying executive impact and sponsorship at the top.
High-Impact Facilitator – Aligning leaders, teams, and organizations with ambitious goals.
Thought-Leader and Speaker – Shaping ideas to answer modern questions and inspiring visionaries to elevate impact.
Decades of Experience – Spanning global non-profits, technology consulting, aerospace & defense, healthcare, and more.
Credentials - Co-Active Coach Certification (CTI), Strategy Execution Framework certification (Conner Advisory), High Impact Trusted Advisor certification (Conner Academy), M.Ed. in Organizational Performance and Change.
Why Kinetic Partners was Founded
Decades of experience across industries, change types, levels of leadership, and change methodologies is the basis for understanding that not all changes are alike and not all change leaders require the same kind of expertise and support.
Kinetic Partners is founded to support the few leaders who are called to face unfathomable headwinds as they break down deeply ingrained systems and mindsets—leading change that protects and restores lives. These leaders need partners who see the risk patterns others miss and helps them avoid the traps that compromise their intended impact.
Our expertise is in those risk patterns and our commitment to the success of these leaders and to changes that truly matter matches the compelling vision that drives the top-tier leaders we call our partners.
