Our founders & experience
Experience that drives confidence.
Alera Advisory Group is led by a combination of executive-level business development and deep facility services strategy — nearly four decades of combined experience.
Our firm is built on the rigorous demands of infrastructure, maintenance, and complex facilities across the country, with a dedicated focus on the Northern California market and a national reach. We understand the operational pressures faced by hospitals, major airports, institutional CRE firms, and multi-site operators — because that is where both principals built their careers.
Meet the principals
Lakeisha Holmes
Co-Founder & Principal Strategic Architect · Enterprise Growth Executive · Performance-Based Procurement
Lakeisha is the strategic architect and revenue driver behind Alera Advisory Group, leveraging over 18 years of dynamic account and enterprise sales management to redefine procurement and cost optimization.
Her foundation is built on securing multimillion-dollar, multi-year contracts and expanding market share in competitive sectors, including parking, HVAC, janitorial, and security services. Her expertise spans national markets, with significant focus on Northern California and a vast network across CRE, hospitality, healthcare, and aviation.
Artis McCoy
Co-Founder & Principal Facility Services Advisor · Business Development Leader · Smart Building Strategist
Artis is a proven business development executive and facility services strategist with more than a decade of experience driving multimillion-dollar revenue growth, operational innovation, and enterprise-level client partnerships.
His expertise spans integrated facility services, HVAC and building systems, IoT and AI smart-building technology, and complex enterprise sales cycles. Artis specializes in modernizing facility operations to drive measurable performance improvement.
Our business philosophy
Executive tone. Risk-aligned engagement.
We approach every client engagement with an executive, confident, and direct methodology. We operate as an extension of your leadership team, focused purely on demonstrable results and achieving your KPIs. To ensure optimal partnership and fit your financial goals, we offer customized financial models.
We operate as an extension of your leadership team
Not a vendor managing vendors. The engagement is structured so that our incentives and your KPIs point the same direction from day one — and so that you can end it without having stranded a budget.
Which of the three models below fits is a question we answer on the briefing call, not before it.
Contingency
Zero upfront fee, paid as a portion of realized savings. Ideal for firms seeking immediate, risk-free cost reduction.
If we don't deliver measurable results, you incur no cost.
Embedded business development
A retainer structure — retainer, retainer plus commission, or project-based — for firms needing high-level strategic growth and sales leadership without the overhead of a full-time executive salary and benefits.
Project-based fee
A fixed fee for defined strategic initiatives or consulting outputs, where the deliverable and the timeline are both known up front.
Ready to engineer value?
A 60-minute executive briefing. No obligation, no upfront fee, and a clear read on whether our model fits your spend.