The Story Spark - Holly Crawshaw

Holly is positive, upbeat, and a little sarcastic. She leans heavily into stories and statistics to support her position. Holly overdelivers, and is happy to take follow up questions after any speaking engagement.

Holly spent 10 years working at a mega-church, speaking to both adults and students and writing and developing content. Her faith is the cornerstone of her life.

After leaving the church space, Holly became an agented ghostwriter. She is a New York Times-bestselling ghostwriter, editor, and manuscript coach. Since entering publishing in 2006, Holly has ghostwritten, edited, and coached well over 1,000 titles. In addition to the NYT Bestseller list, other projects Holly has worked on have topped the most prestigious lists in the industry including Amazon Bestseller, Amazon Best New Release, and Amazon Top 100, among others.

Some of Holly’s notable clients include The Bachelor finalist Madison Prewett Troutt, Grammy- award-winning artist Michelle Williams, former Good Morning America and The View co-host Paula Faris, Fellowship Church pastors Ed and Lisa Young, and Paralympic gold medalist Scout Bassett. She’s written books for all the major publishing houses, including HarperCollins, Penguin, Random House, Baker, and Hachette.

In 2021, Holly came to LinkedIn. She was not the typical social content creator. She goes against the grain in almost every category when compared to most of the big names in content creation.

But on LinkedIn, she saw a thriving community of professionals building their brand and growing their audience. And making money too. At first, she was intimidated. All the “digital nomads” and the social media marketers. She wasn’t like them. At all.

But she had just enough self-belief to try. She thought, "Hey. Why not me?"

Why can’t I build a brand?
Why can’t I grow an audience?
Why can’t I monetize LinkedIn and take back control of my life and income?

Three years later, Holly is the #1 U.S. creator for building a brand and growing an audience.

LinkedIn changed her life. Now she works where she wants, when she wants, with who she wants. She regained full control of her life and income. And she doubled her former income.

Here’s a question she'd like you to consider: Why not you?

If a mom in her 40s with zero formal business or marketing acumen can systemize and win on LinkedIn … why can’t you?

The ability to share a Keynote would make the event better for the audience, but is not a requirement.