Franklin Holley
Director
North America
Insights
Expertise
Based in the Washington, DC area, Franklin Holley is Director of Nature Solutions for Anthesis Group in North America. Franklin supports business leaders in applying nature-positive solutions to their entire enterprise and in developing strategies to de-risk their supply chains and investment portfolios. She leverages more than 20 years of experience in advancing nature-positive outcomes and the sustainability of agricultural value chains that conserve nature, ensure farmer & community livelihoods, meet corporate business objectives, and help feed, clothe, and fuel a growing population in a resource-constrained world.
Franklin has worked with global Fortune 100 and 500 companies, small & medium-sized businesses, international NGOs, universities and the public sector. Prior to joining Anthesis, she directed Conservation International’s Sustainable Fashion Program focused on Nature-Positive outcomes in the fashion & apparel sector and led the launch of the Regenerative Fund for Nature. She has served as Vice Chair of Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture and as an advisor on Colorado State University’s Department of Soil and Crop Sciences Industry Advisory Board. Franklin’s previous experience includes working for international conservation NGOs, leading a Maryland-based community-development and natural-resources management non-profit, convening unlikely agriculture and food stakeholders on diverse challenges, and delivering nutrition education through agricultural extension programming. Franklin has an MSc in International Agricultural Development from the University of California, Davis and a BA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Virginia. She spent her college summers volunteering on a Heifer International Learning Center Farm in Central California and with smallholder farmers in the Ecuadorian Andes.
