Holly Baird, MBA
DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNTS AND CLIENT DELIVERY
As Director of Accounts and Client Delivery, Holly Baird focuses her time on client relationships, strategic support across our projects, and training and developing of our staff to produce consistent, high-quality deliverables that best serve our customers and their stakeholders.
Holly came to the Utility sector by way of design and construction, project management, and a focus in sustainability in the commercial built environment. Before Milepost, she has served as the South-Central Regional Director for the US Green Building Council, the Executive Director for the USGBC Tennessee Chapter, a board member for numerous nonprofits, and a Commercial Interior Designer.
Holly has a Master’s in Business Administration with a concentration in nonprofit management. Holly is one of Milepost’s resident word-smiths, and a proud career nerd who loves conferences, classes, workshops, webinars, and TED talks.
Core competencies
- Market intelligence and business insights
- Strategic planning
- Business case development
- Process improvement
- Partner research and stakeholder engagement activities
- Meeting facilitation
- Behavior change
- Program focus selection and goal setting
- Engagement strategy
- Event design, management, and promotion
- Community-Based Social Marketing
- Storytelling
- Conference planning (e.g., abstracts, awards, exhibiting, speech writing)
- Team development and coaching
- Stakeholder/team/project management
- Account management
Likes
Personality quizzesPolka dots
Young Adult fiction
Cheesy 80s/90s movies
The Oxford comma
Dislikes
Red peppersHeat and humidity
Beer
Fluorescent light
Snakes