About me
Holly Custard is a dynamic executive leader with more than 25 years of experience driving social impact through learner-centered education and technology innovation. At Strada, she leads efforts to advance Learning Mobility—The ability for people to carry, build, and articulate their learning—the knowledge, skills, competencies, and credentials—across a fragmented education-employment system and across all life stages.
Her work focuses on aligning institutions, employers, and communities to modernize policies, strengthen data and technology infrastructure, and remove transitional barriers between education and work for learners. With expertise spanning qualitative research, learner-centered design, online learning, digital credentials, data and technology interoperability, philanthropy, and workforce alignment, Holly is known for building strategic partnerships and catalyzing cross-sector collaboration. She is dedicated to shaping the future of education and work while expanding opportunity for individuals, institutions, and communities.
