Holly Truitt.

Holly Truitt is a designer and facilitator who helps organizations catalyze better-the-world impact. With more than 20 years of experience guiding public and private organizations through uncharted transformations, Holly is a nationally respected author, researcher, and presenter.

beautiful Holly in black leather jacket in a garden

Holly’s work has secured funding and drawn support from large foundations, thriving municipalities, flagship universities, Fortune 500 companies and world-class libraries and museums. A sought-after speaker, Holly has presented at HATCH Europe, HATCH Heartland, Parenthood: The Unconference, MIT’s Science Festival Alliance, TedX, the National Science Foundation, AudPop, and others. In 2014, she was named among the Missoulian newspaper’s “20 Under 40,” and in 2013, she was awarded a global Noyce Fellowship. A visiting student at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health during her graduate studies, Holly has lectured at Stanford d. school. She lives in Missoula, Montana with her husband and son.

Committed to her community, she is engaged in the Missoula Downtown Association, gives her time as a Powerhouse Montana mentor, and has served on the board of the Missoula United Way.

Speaker + Teaching Engagements

Parenthood: The Unconference

– Holly Truitt

ASTC: Design Lab X Bootcamp: Community Co-creation for Impact, Change, and Leadership

– Bill Swaney, Holly Truitt, Sam Dean

Class: Stanford D.School: POP OUT: Shuffle the Deck: Designing your Design Work

– Holly Truitt, Elysa Fenebock

2023 HATCH Heartland

– Holly Truitt

TAM: Keynote Co-creation Bootcamp and Design Lab

– Holly Truitt

Workshop: Stanford D.School: Designing the Taboo

– Holly Truitt, Hanan Ahmed, Nadia Gathers, Omri Gal, Meenu Singh

Accelerate Lab: 2023 HATCH Europe

– Holly Truitt

Podcasts

Episode 032: Holly Truitt: Community Creator, Coalition Builder, and Change Maker

– Justin Angle

Power of Design Thinking

– California Institute of Integral Studies

Science Events Spotlight #2

– MIT’s Science Festival Alliance

Published Articles

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Co-creating Transformative Change

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Coming Under One Roof

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Learning from Nordic Culture Houses

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Longevity’s Future Isn’t a Glow-Up — It’s an Ecosystem

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AMPLIFY: A Pause to Think, Create, and Design What’s Next

– Holly Truitt

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Learning to Move Collectively

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Meet the Design Mystics

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Teaching and Learning Yearbook 2020-2021, D.School

– Holly Truitt + Meenu Singh page 109

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Transformation = Divine Time

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Three lessons every entrepreneur can use to navigate uncertainty and build resilience

– Holly Truitt

In the Media

Childhood loss: How it primed me to lead change

– TEDX Talk. In this talk, Holly describes how her own experiences of loss and support led her to become a change agent in her own community.

Creating change: Missoula’s Holly Truitt teaching design lab at Stanford

– Missoula Current

Meet the Design Mystics

– Holly Truitt