The Holt Group exists because enterprise clients pay for senior judgment and too often receive junior labor. We removed the pyramid.
The Holt Group was founded in 2022 in Nashville after 25+ years of enterprise transformation leadership at Infor, NTT DATA, FINEOS, Planview, IBM, and Berkshire Hathaway — a career defined by one consistent pattern: being handed the programs where governance had broken down, stakeholders had lost confidence, and failure carried operational, financial, regulatory, or reputational consequences.
Transformation failure rarely begins with technology. It begins when accountability blurs, decision rights fragment, governance loses authority, and leaders stop trusting the delivery path. Our practice exists to bring clarity back into the system — then make execution predictable, defensible, and durable.
The people who sell the engagement deliver the engagement. No hand-offs to a leverage pyramid, no analysts learning on your budget.
We define success in measurable terms before work begins and structure fees against it. Alignment isn't a slide — it's a clause.
Our recommendations come from having done the job: run the P&L, shipped the platform, faced the regulator, delivered the mission.
We use AI agents throughout our own delivery, which makes us faster and cheaper — and makes our AI advice grounded in daily practice, not theory.
We take fewer clients and go deeper. If we're not the right firm for your problem, we'll say so in the first meeting — and tell you who is.
Every engagement is led personally by our founder, supported by a hand-picked network of senior operators.
Enterprise transformation and consulting executive with 25+ years across healthcare, public sector, financial services, manufacturing, and Fortune 500 environments. Eric has led 100+ enterprise transformations, carried portfolio accountability exceeding $200M, and directed global delivery organizations of 350+ — including recovery leadership at Aetna, the State of Maine's first federally certified MMIS, Ferrari's 62-country ERP transformation, a $100B+ Department of Defense portfolio, TD Bank's Dodd-Frank program, and Banner Health's $16B system. He previously held senior executive roles at Infor (P&L owner of a $75M–$100M transformation practice), NTT DATA, and FINEOS, where he built the North American professional services organization from inception. He holds three graduate degrees earned summa cum laude, plus PMP, IBM Certified Executive Project Manager, Prosci, and CSM credentials.
We deliberately carry no bench. When an engagement needs specialized depth — clinical informatics, defense acquisition, regulatory reporting, platform engineering — we bring in proven senior operators from a trusted network built over 25 years of delivery. Every one is personally vetted; none are learning on your program.
Your first conversation is with a principal — the same person who would lead your engagement.