Robert Holm

Program Director, Building Economic Opportunity

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Robert Holm is a program director for workforce and economic development in JFF’s Building Economic Opportunity Group. 

Since joining NCEE's Workforce Development Strategies Group (now part of JFF) in 2005, Holm has managed regional workforce and economic development consulting and research for NCEE and has assisted regions to align economic and talent development. During that time has helped manage the U.S. Dept. of Labor, American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), and foundation-funded projects to learn and apply the lessons of regional collaboration for economic growth and talent development.

Mr. Holm assisted in the creation of the AACC Center for Workforce and Economic Development to help community colleges engage in regional economic development, and has assisted USAID and other international agencies to identify effective workforce development practices internationally and apply those lessons in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.



Prior to joining NCEE in 2005, Mr. Holm established a regional workforce consulting center with Harley Davidson, Manpower, Johnson Controls, the University of Wisconsin, and others in southeastern Wisconsin, developed Welfare-to-Work training programs for Goodwill’s One-Stop Job Centers in Milwaukee, and founded Venture Creation, a consulting practice assisting minority-owned companies with strategy and financing.

Mr. Holm holds a Master’s degree from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a B.A. in economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He served in the U.S. Army as an Arabic linguist and studied at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.