ABOUT
About Quay Strategies
A senior advisory practice led by Q Hollie.
Q Hollie, Founder & Principal
Quiana “Q” Hollie is an executive advisor, organizational strategist, and executive coach who partners with firms and senior leadership teams navigating complexity, transformation, and growth. She brings more than twenty years of experience advising executives in global companies, private equity environments, and fast-scaling organizations on how to align strategy, people, and leadership behavior in ways that sustain.
Q’s work focuses on helping senior leaders and executive teams translate strategy into aligned leadership behavior. She has designed enterprise leadership programs, supported C-suite and senior executives through succession and role transitions, and guided teams through periods of restructuring, integration, and organizational realignment. Her approach balances strategic clarity with grounded pragmatism, ensuring leaders build momentum without losing sight of the human dynamics that drive performance.
As an executive coach, Q works with senior leaders across industries — from large corporate environments to founders and mission-driven leaders — supporting them in strengthening presence, decision-making, resilience, and impact. She is frequently engaged as a confidential thought partner for executives managing visibility, influence, stakeholder relationships, and the personal demands of leadership at scale.
Through Quay Strategies, the boutique advisory firm she leads, Q collaborates with firms as an extension of their delivery teams. She is often brought in for executive coaching benches, co-design and co-facilitation of senior team sessions, leadership development initiatives, and organizational effectiveness engagements that require both empathy and rigor.
Q holds a B.A. in Psychology from Duke University, is a Hudson-trained and ICF certified coach, and is certified in several assessments including Hogan (HPI, HDS, MVPI), Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI), and Predictive Index (PI). She is known for creating environments where leaders feel both supported and challenged; steady enough to think clearly, and accountable enough to move forward.
For more than twenty years, Q Hollie has worked inside the kinds of organizations Quay now advises: global financial services, emerging technology, PE-backed operators, and executive education.
Across those environments, the pattern 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 work combines organizational diagnosis, executive advisory, and coaching to help leaders see clearly what is actually happening underneath the surface issue — and decide what to do about it.
The name Quay Strategies comes from quay: the harbor structure where ships dock before returning to open water. A place to assess what condition the vessel is actually in, repair what needs repair, and prepare for what comes next. That idea sits quietly underneath the practice and the work itself:
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. The experience deepened an early understanding that development work only matters if it remains useful once leaders return to the realities of the business.
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. The same underlying leadership patterns showing up underneath all of them.
What working together feels like
Insightful
We get to the real issue quickly. You leave with clarity, not more noise.
Direct
Honest conversations in a confidential space. No politics. No performance.
Practical
Solutions that fit your organization and the reality you operate in.
Results-Oriented
The goal is progress you can lead and your team can sustain.