Women In the Spotlight
Leisa Holland-Nelson is Co-founder and President of ContentActive, LLC, a web-based management systems firm that has served the technology communications market in the areas of Content Management, Intranets, Extranets, Portals, Payment Solutions and Hosting since 2000 and Mobile since 2009. With over 400 implementations using its flagship product ContentActive is the link for defining and implementing functionality with pixel perfection, a driving force in marrying functionality to brand. ContentActive, LLC has won the Houston Business Journal's Fast Tech 50 Award in 2005, 2006, 2007and 2008, was named to its Top Web Developers List in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and was named to the Houston Fast 100 (Houston's fastest growing businesses) in 2010.
Ms. Holland-Nelson is a former partner in the Retail Practice of the Consumer Products sector of Heidrick and Struggles, Inc., Consultants in Executive Search in New York City, where her practice focused on management assessment and consulting, along with executive recruitment.
Prior to entering executive search, Ms. Holland-Nelson's career included executive merchandising and marketing positions in retailing with Neiman Marcus and Federated Department Stores and in the fashion industry with Leslie Fay's Outlander division and Evan-Picone. In 1996, Ms. Holland-Nelson formed the Apparel Resource Group, Inc.; a consumer product focused consulting company specializing in brand positioning, organizational development and technology management. Ms. Holland-Nelson is a well-known speaker in both the fashion and financial industries on consumer focused marketing and trend forecasting.
She is also very active in the community in Houston, Texas, chairing the Business Leadership Council for the Greater Houston Partnership having been founding co-chair of its' Advocates Committee, chairing on Houston Technology Center's Partner Connection event since 2006, serving as a sponsor and judge for the Rice Business Plan Competition and Chairing the Advisory Board for the Council on Alcohol and Drugs, Houston. She serves on the Executive Committee for the American Heart Association's Go Red For Women Campaign, the Boards of Directors for the Greater Houston Women's Chamber of Commerce, TechCorps Texas, Hermann Park Conservancy, The Holocaust Museum of Houston, and Theatre Under the Stars, the Board of Trustees for Goodwill Industries, the Boards of Advisors for Houston Achievement Place, The Guild of Yellowstone Academy, The Guild of the American Heart Association, and The Center for Success and Independence. She is a former board member of HITS Theatre and Houston's High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. In 2009 and 2010 she Co-chaired the Houston Community College Passion for Fashion Luncheon. She also Co-chaired the Bytes and Birdies Gala and Golf honoring TechCorps Texas in 2010.
In 2011 she will Chair the Greater Houston Women's Chamber of Commerce and will be the Honorary Chair for Houston Community College's Passion for Fashion Luncheon.
Ms. Holland-Nelson and her partner, Brian Gaubert, co-founded the annual HoustonActive event, actively supporting education through technology. They have made community service part of the mission of their company and each year honor an effort by the City of Houston along with at least three non-profit organizations focused on education and technology especially at the middle school level. Former honorees include Mayor Bill White and his Digital Inclusion program, Lemonade Day, The Harris County Education Foundation, TechCorps Texas, Communities in Schools, AAMA and more.
Ms. Holland-Nelson has appeared on KPRC, TV's Daybreak News2 Houston as "The 30-Second Coach," a bi-weekly self-improvement segment and on the station's First at Four News as the "Organizational Coach" for Dr. Phil's Empowerment Team. She and her daughter were also frequent guests on KHOU, TV's "Great Day Houston" program.
Ms. Holland-Nelson was named one of "Houston's Fifty Most Influential Women of 2009" by Houston Woman Magazine.
Ms. Holland-Nelson is a fifth generation Houstonian and proud mother of a twenty-one year old daughter, Laura Nelson, who is a junior at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. Laura is a graduate of Houston's HSPVA.
Leisa Holland-Nelson is Co-founder and President of ContentActive, LLC, a web-based management systems firm that has served the technology communications market in the areas of Content Management, Intranets, Extranets, Portals, Payment Solutions and Hosting since 2000 and Mobile since 2009. With over 400 implementations using its flagship product ContentActive is the link for defining and implementing functionality with pixel perfection, a driving force in marrying functionality to brand. ContentActive, LLC has won the Houston Business Journal's Fast Tech 50 Award in 2005, 2006, 2007and 2008, was named to its Top Web Developers List in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and was named to the Houston Fast 100 (Houston's fastest growing businesses) in 2010.
Ms. Holland-Nelson is a former partner in the Retail Practice of the Consumer Products sector of Heidrick and Struggles, Inc., Consultants in Executive Search in New York City, where her practice focused on management assessment and consulting, along with executive recruitment.
Prior to entering executive search, Ms. Holland-Nelson's career included executive merchandising and marketing positions in retailing with Neiman Marcus and Federated Department Stores and in the fashion industry with Leslie Fay's Outlander division and Evan-Picone. In 1996, Ms. Holland-Nelson formed the Apparel Resource Group, Inc.; a consumer product focused consulting company specializing in brand positioning, organizational development and technology management. Ms. Holland-Nelson is a well-known speaker in both the fashion and financial industries on consumer focused marketing and trend forecasting.
She is also very active in the community in Houston, Texas, chairing the Business Leadership Council for the Greater Houston Partnership having been founding co-chair of its' Advocates Committee, chairing on Houston Technology Center's Partner Connection event since 2006, serving as a sponsor and judge for the Rice Business Plan Competition and Chairing the Advisory Board for the Council on Alcohol and Drugs, Houston. She serves on the Executive Committee for the American Heart Association's Go Red For Women Campaign, the Boards of Directors for the Greater Houston Women's Chamber of Commerce, TechCorps Texas, Hermann Park Conservancy, The Holocaust Museum of Houston, and Theatre Under the Stars, the Board of Trustees for Goodwill Industries, the Boards of Advisors for Houston Achievement Place, The Guild of Yellowstone Academy, The Guild of the American Heart Association, and The Center for Success and Independence. She is a former board member of HITS Theatre and Houston's High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. In 2009 and 2010 she Co-chaired the Houston Community College Passion for Fashion Luncheon. She also Co-chaired the Bytes and Birdies Gala and Golf honoring TechCorps Texas in 2010.
In 2011 she will Chair the Greater Houston Women's Chamber of Commerce and will be the Honorary Chair for Houston Community College's Passion for Fashion Luncheon.
Ms. Holland-Nelson and her partner, Brian Gaubert, co-founded the annual HoustonActive event, actively supporting education through technology. They have made community service part of the mission of their company and each year honor an effort by the City of Houston along with at least three non-profit organizations focused on education and technology especially at the middle school level. Former honorees include Mayor Bill White and his Digital Inclusion program, Lemonade Day, The Harris County Education Foundation, TechCorps Texas, Communities in Schools, AAMA and more.
Ms. Holland-Nelson has appeared on KPRC, TV's Daybreak News2 Houston as "The 30-Second Coach," a bi-weekly self-improvement segment and on the station's First at Four News as the "Organizational Coach" for Dr. Phil's Empowerment Team. She and her daughter were also frequent guests on KHOU, TV's "Great Day Houston" program.
Ms. Holland-Nelson was named one of "Houston's Fifty Most Influential Women of 2009" by Houston Woman Magazine.
Ms. Holland-Nelson is a fifth generation Houstonian and proud mother of a twenty-one year old daughter, Laura Nelson, who is a junior at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. Laura is a graduate of Houston's HSPVA.
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