ABOUT
About Quay Strategies
A senior advisory practice led by Q Hollie.
Q Hollie, Founder & Principal
I am an executive advisor, organizational strategist, and coach. I partner with senior leaders navigating the moments when leadership behavior, organizational design, and operating reality stop lining up.
I hold a B.A. in Psychology from Duke University, am Hudson-trained and ICF-credentialed, and am certified in Hogan (HPI, HDS, MVPI), Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI), and Predictive Index (PI).
The pattern across twenty years inside global financial services, emerging technology, PE-backed operators, and executive education was remarkably consistent. Leadership teams describing one problem while carrying another. Managers absorbing ambiguity their executives had not settled. Organizations trying to solve operational friction that was, underneath, a trust or alignment issue.
The stated problem was rarely the real problem.
Quay Strategies was built from that observation. I work with CHROs, CEOs, and PE operating partners when something in the leadership system has started to create friction the organization can feel but has not yet fully explained.
The name Quay Strategies comes from quay: the harbor structure where ships dock before returning to open water. A place to assess, repair, and prepare for what comes next.
A safe harbor for organizations and leaders building what's next.
Background
BlackRock
Q held leadership roles within both the firm’s HR and investment organizations. Her work included leading global professional development and enterprise learning strategy across the firm, architecting the BlackRock Academies learning platform, and later serving on the COO team for Global Fundamental Equities, where she partnered on talent strategy, leadership effectiveness, and organizational priorities. The throughline across both roles was the same: leadership and organizational decisions operating under real commercial pressure.
Meta
Q led learning and development strategy for the company’s Infrastructure organization during a period of rapid global scale. The work sat close to technical operators, engineering leadership, and highly distributed teams navigating growth, complexity, and organizational change in real time. Earlier in her tenure, she partnered directly with Meta’s global data center organization as it expanded from roughly 1,100 to more than 4,000 employees worldwide, building learning and leadership infrastructure inside a deeply technical operating environment.
LivCor, a Blackstone Portfolio Company
Q led enterprise talent strategy during a significant period of organizational growth, integration, and change. Her work included enterprise job architecture redesign, leadership development, and succession and mobility strategy. The role required balancing organizational design, leadership effectiveness, and business realities inside a fast-moving PE-backed operating environment.
American Management Association
Q led the design and delivery team of leadership and professional development experiences across global client and enterprise audiences. The work included large-scale learning portfolios, executive development initiatives, and partnership with recognized leadership thinkers including Marshall Goldsmith turning his classic book, "What Got You Here Won't Get You There," into classroom and online learning programs.
Duke Corporate Education
At Duke Corporate Education, Q worked on the design and delivery of customized executive education engagements for global organizations navigating leadership, growth, and organizational change. The experience shaped an early operating lens that still informs the practice today: development work only matters if it remains useful once leaders return to the realities and pressures of the business.
Different industries, different pressures, and the same leadership patterns showing up underneath all of them.