About Holly Bellebuono

Holly Bellebuono, MPA, brings three decades of leadership in the natural and organic products industry to her passion for supporting health and business. Drawing from her rich personal and professional background in ethics-based entrepreneurship and business development, Holly is a firm believer in B-Corps’ philosophy of business as a force for good. Through Selle Impact Consulting, a certified WBENC, she guides business and nonprofit leaders toward skills, strategy, purpose implementation, and the necessary bold next steps needed to flourish socially and environmentally.

Holly is a fierce advocate for revolutionary company missions that strengthen the business’s capacity to advance women’s equity and environmental sustainability. She believes in value-based leadership that guide businesses to leverage their influence and pockets to structure a bold world that achieves core-value positive impact. She operates an online educational platform providing on-demand courses covering topics such as good manufacturing practices, business ethics, labeling laws, transparency, and clarity of values and purpose.

Her dedication to ecofriendly and women-empowering company policies began in her native North Carolina where she began her career as an entrepreneur and herbalist, supporting health and wellness education and product development. Her dedication to women’s equity has included leading the Bellebuono School of Herbal Medicine (founded 2011), leading training events for organic business owners, speaking internationally for conferences and associations, and publishing an award-winning documentary book celebrating women’s successes as entrepreneurs and thought leaders. Her e-book Business on Purpose: A Reference Guide to Designations and Certifications for Socially and Environmentally Conscious Businesses seeks to streamline a business’s path toward CSR. Her 8^th book Once Upon A Place: Forests, Caverns, and Other Places of Transformation in Myth, Fairy Tale and Film (2025) explores personal transformation and the stories that guide us. Holly teaches the Book Proposal Bootcamp to support authors in crafting a winning book proposal.

Holly has won two small business awards plus a nonprofit executive award and has authored 8 nonfiction books published in 3 languages. Holly spent 7 years serving as an executive and financial leader for environmental, educational, and human service nonprofits. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration: Environmental Policy from Appalachian State University, and has executive certificates in Nonprofit Finance, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and Impact Measurement & Management of the UN Sustainable Development Goals from Cornell, London Business School, and Duke University. She has served on the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center’s Community of Practice, the Martha’s Vineyard Climate Action Plan Steering Committee (Economic Resilience), and the MV Nonprofit Collaborative, among other boards. She is known for celebrating the human experience and as an inspiring key strategist for business leaders seeking a worthy purpose.