BIOGRAPHY
Rebel Holiday has a diverse
career with 25 years experience establishing and developing companies in several industries. These included communications,
design, image, personal development and corporate consulting. The strongest common denominators are that: she loves
seeing ideas become reality and seeing lives change as people discover their potential.
From
2005 to 2007, Rebel Holiday focused on serving leaders and companies in the business and personal transformation arena.
Her particular interest was working with several global consulting firms in transformational consulting and social
projects. She consulted with two boutique consulting companies in Cambridge, Massachusetts and an
ontological seminar firm based in Northern California. Prior, she served as interim Managing Director of a London
technology firm specializing in business performance transformation.
Between 1997 and 2003, she
was dedicated to assisting entrepreneurial companies launch and grow through several early-stage venture funds in the Washington
D.C. Metro area. The portfolio companies were from virtually every industry: technology, alternative energy, bio-med,
informatics, health, inventions, software, Internet and consumer-related firms, and located primarily in the Mid-Atlantic
region of the East Coast. 2000-2005, she was involved in corporate communications in Northern Virginia and worked
on an information technology start-up. Ms. Holiday has consulted with dozens of entrepreneurial management teams for
ten years.
Her business career began in Northern California. After attending UC Berkeley,
Ms. Holiday sold investment real estate in the California Bay Area from 1979 through 1981. In 1981 she received the MAME (Major
Achievement In Merchandising Excellence) award for Salesperson of the Year for Northern California. She negotiated and closed
several land transactions that became residential communities and commercial developments.
Beginning
her personal journey of self-discovery in 1979, she experienced an epiphany in 1982. Rebel realized that she was called to
use her talents to help change the lives of others. Interested in transformation, she studied non-verbal communications, NLP
(Neuro-linguistic Programming), Ericksonian Hypnosis and other methodologies for effective personal change.
She
entered a period of extensive research on aesthetic questions followed by intense training traveling across the United
States for six months. She ultimately discovered and defined 96 patterns in the physical characteristics of men and women
of all races. She named these patterns "Human Visual DesignTM" and developed an information system that
formed the basis for her work in Personal Congruence and, later, Personal Impact.
Returning to San Diego,
she founded her first company in La Jolla, California. Her Excellence Centers operated on both Coasts of the U.S., providing
Life Design programs and personal executive coaching to over 6,000 individuals between 1982 and 1994. During those years,
programs in professional excellence, image, and communication were delivered in over 200 corporations.
Rebel's
later research confirmed her intuition that there was a direct correlation between an individual's Human Visual DesignTM
and their Inner Essence. She wrote eight books on applying her system to image, design and personal expression and produced
a television program. Her clients frequently reported life-changing results as the outcome of her work on Personal CongruenceTM
.
Since 1979, Rebel Holiday has been a teacher and a student of approaches related to human consciousness
and transforming people's lives. She received an award for "Contributing to the Development of Consciousness"
by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1985. In the 1990's her work was recognized by other human potential leaders and teachers.
Between 1982 and 1996, she further developed the innovative information system based on "Human Visual DesignTM"
that was foundational to her companies during those years. Her books describe how her design system could be applied
to fashion and personal expression. She applied this fashion information system to her line of Rebel Holiday fashion
in New York in 1993 and 1994. This system can be used as an information technology by consultants and fashion companies.
As a professional speaker and trainer since 1984, Rebel Holiday has enjoyed presenting keynotes and training
programs to hundreds of diverse audiences in corporations and associations internationally. She has traveled to 43 countries
for business and adventure.
Rebel Holiday has lectured several times each month for the past ten years to
business leaders in major U.S. cities. She spoke on entrepreneurial business at the Small Business Association National Conference
in 2004. She has developed and presented many dozens of workshops and training programs related to personal and organizational
transformation.
Rebel Holiday has taught classes to graduate students in MBA programs at universities
including, American University, Georgetown University, Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT) and University of Maryland.
She assisted in the curriculum development for a Center for Entrepreneurial Achievement in 1999. She has written articles
related to strategic planning, finance, entrepreneurial leadership and business development.
An
advocate for charities, she has helped raise significant funds by donating her seminars as fund-raisers for non-profit organizations.
She has supported: Children's Hospital, The Burn Foundation, Kiwanis, Soroptomists, American Heart Association, Abandoned
and Runaway Children's Center, Junior League, The House of Ruth, Beyond Beauty Foundation and others.
On a personal note, "Rebel Holiday" is the name on her birth certificate. Born in Chicago, the eldest of
four children, she was raised in San Diego, California. She resided in the D.C. Metro area from 1989-2008. She
is based once again on the West Coast. Rebel is the proud mother of two sons. She has painted over 100
paintings since 1996, is a gourmet cook, enjoys the performing arts, travels extensively and loves to learn.
Rebel is passionately committed to working with others to shift the quality of life on our planet.
Contact information:
Rebel Holiday
858-492-8055
PO Box 28123
San Diego, CA 92198
rebel@rebelholiday.com
