Holly Priestner

For more than a decade, Holly has been building teams and developing talent in leading corporations, associations, and nonprofits. She believes that organizations are powered by empowered leaders and is passionate about providing people with the tools to unlock the potential and motivation of their employees. Her expertise includes talent acquisition, goal setting and accountability, organizational development, talent assessments and growth plans, onboarding and employer branding. Holly advises and coaches several of real estate’s most successful teams, coaching and advising them on how to build legacy businesses that will continue to grow. She currently leads talent and engagement strategy for PLACE Inc., a full service real estate and technology platform that partners with the top 1% of agents and teams by helping expand their profitability, value proposition to the consumer and grow their unique local brand. Holly leads the organization's internal and external talent acquisition strategy, consults with partner teams on their organizational development and drives talent engagement. Place Inc. was born from a merger between Ben Kinney Companies and Xperience Real Estate Network. In the Xperience Real Estate Network, Holly served as both a Growth Leader and as Director of Talent Acquisition and Development. In addition to leading the overall talent strategy and serving as a key leader in the organization, Holly is responsible for attracting more than $250 million in closed volume to the team in less than 18 months and leading Austin, Texas to be the #1 expansion location for gross commission income across all of Keller Williams. Prior to joining Xperience, Holly was the Vice President of Keller Williams Realty International, the world’s largest real estate franchise, where she oversaw Marketing and Communications, Industry Relations, People Operations, KW Young Professionals and KW Kids Can. Holly also created the LifeAtKWRI talent brand, recruited current company President Josh Team and established KW Young Professionals as a formal KW entity.

The key to talent retention? Growing your intrapreneurs

Instead of having a revolving door of agents, fill your business with intrapreneurs who are committed to and invested in your vision. Here's how to ensure your top producers never want to leave

Jul 16