ABOUT SECRET
Secret Holland is a certified professional with 25+ years of human resources and leadership experience. Her passion is helping small and mid-size companies with their people needs. She excels at HR consulting, employee relations and investigations, policy and program development and can advise on any aspect of organization effectiveness. She is skilled at leadership development, goal setting and coaching for performance and dealing effectively with poor performance in full compliance with all regulations and laws. She is also skilled in ADA, ACA, FMLA and worker’s compensation.
Secret’s most recent role has been Vice President of Human Resources and Community Affairs at Gas South, LLC where her responsibilities include all aspects of human resources – strategic planning, organization design and effectiveness, compensation and benefits, recruiting and onboarding, technical skills and essential skills training, leadership development, employee relations, compliance – as well as community affairs, philanthropy and diversity, equity and inclusion.
Ms. Holland retired from Southern Company after working in various subsidiaries for 31 years. Her experience at Georgia Power was in procurement and materials where she served as budget analyst, buyer, contracts negotiator, and subject matter expert on procurement systems. She was a key contributor to developing and implementing an integrated accounting, materials and procurement system used in power plants and distribution headquarters. Her experience at Southern Company Services was in multiple human resources roles including HR generalist supporting distribution facilities with linemen, field estimators, and customer service locations across north Georgia. She also supported corporate customer service and a 550-person call center and 250 field personnel. Secret led the development and implementation of Southern Company’s first internal HR shared services center providing HR support to Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power, Mississippi Power and Southern Nuclear. At SouthernLINC Wireless Secret served as HR Director of the competitive cellular phone/2-way radio company. She also supported the HR needs of Southern Company Aviation – a 55-person organization in four states at four airport bases for the company fleet of planes and helicopters.
Ms. Holland has a Master of Science degree in Management with an emphasis in strategic planning, organization design and change management. Her BBA is in Accounting and her AA is in Business Administration. She has her SPHR and SCP-HR certifications. She is a Georgia native who grew up west of Atlanta in Douglas County but relocated in 2017. Secret now lives in Cobb County and is active in many Cobb Chamber activities. She serves on the boards of KSU’s EMBA program and One Cumberland, the new 501c3 subsidiary of the Cumberland Improvement District, and has past service on the Board of the Atlanta Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. She enjoys golf, dancing, travel, college football, reading and time with family and friends.
ABOUT ANNA
Anna Holland is an experienced educator with a background in developing and facilitating catered curriculum to fit clients' employee training needs. She excels at policy and program development, instructional design, and mentoring/coaching support for developing managers and leaders. In her role as Director of Training and Development for HR Secrets LLC, Anna levels up the quality of instruction to include her expertise in adult learning theory, behavioral training, and institutional messaging as well as her years of practical isntructional experience in the classroom. She can advise on any aspect of mentoring and coaching given her background in leadership development with young adults and recent graduates.
Anna's most recent professional venture focuses on extending her knowledge as she works to complete her Doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction (C&I) at Georgia State University, where her scholarship includes many aspects of human resources – training and development, evaluation of program success, technical skills and essential skills training, leadership coaching, one-on-one mentoring best practices – as well as community affairs, philanthropy and diversity, equity and inclusion in her role as President of GSU's Kappa Delta Pi professional chapter.
Anna now shadows her mother, Secret, to further develop her own human resources knowledge (that she hadn't already picked up from debating HR across the dinner table for 20+ years) alongside her previous background in corporate, non-profit, and government employment. She has a B.S. in Communications and International Affairs from Kennesaw State University that she utilized in Marketing and Public Relations for many years. She also earned her Masters in Teaching (M.A.T.) from KSU after she realized her passion and propensity to teach. Her experience in public education helped lay the groundwork for her facilitation skills while also expanding her professional expertise in project management. She regularly worked in committees outside of the classrooom to create and implement new instructional materials. She helped develop a robust, individualized curriculum that connected community partners directly to classroom teachers, expanding upon curriculum to invest student ownership of their learning. She also played a key leadership role in the creation of school-wide curriculum and instructional practices for special programming, acting as instructional coach to educators who were unfamiliar with project-based learning. The programming she helped create connected more than 1,200 students, educators, and community stakeholders over the course of a semester to help increase the student's opportunities to learn and the school's visibility within the community.
As Anna continues her apprenticeship with Secret to invest and inherit decades of HR knowledge and expertise, she oversees the adminstrative tasks for Tier 1 and Tier 2 retainer clients to help cut down on Secret's hourly commitment, providing dedicated HR support for more businesses throughout metro Atlanta regardless of their size. When consulting on Training and Professional Development projects specifically, she brings both expertise and innovation to her curricular materials and facilitation given her role as a current scholar in the field of C&I. She also participates as an active member of the Cobb County Chamber and Cobb Young Professionals group.
