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Bring Thoughtly to your organization.

Keynotes Breakout Sessions Workshops

Your audience will leave different than they arrived. Not inspired and then forgotten. Actually different.

You have seen it before. A standing ovation on Friday. Back to the same patterns by Monday. You are not looking for another speaker who gets people fired up for an hour. You are looking for someone who creates a shift that actually sticks.

That is what Allison does.

The Problem Your Audience Brings Into the Room

They are not burned out from lack of effort. They are burned out from leading alone.

Most of the leaders in your audience are carrying more than their share. They are working harder than ever and still feel like they are the only ones who care. They have great people around them who are not stepping up. They have tried to change things before and somehow ended up right back in the same place.

They have never had a model for seeing exactly what is driving that pattern. And they have never had a process for actually changing it. That is what they will leave with.

The Proof

This is not a claim. It is a measurement.

2.5 โ†’ 4
Average confidence and capability score, before and after, out of 5
100%
Of outcome measures showed a significant shift in a single session
1
Day. That is all it took to move every category.

At a recent leadership development day, every single outcome measure showed a significant shift in a single session. Attendees rated their confidence and capability before and after, and across every category the average score jumped from around 2.5 to nearly 4 out of 5.

And when asked what they would do differently as a result of the session, they did not write vague intentions. They wrote specific plans:

Share the quiz with our team.
Call it out when no one is responding in a meeting.
Be more conscious of confidence busters.
Have difficult conversations I have been avoiding.

The most common suggestion for improvement? More time.

What People Say

In their words.

“Allison truly understands people and how to help leaders learn to see themselves in others to clean up their people messes and create truly cohesive teams built on trust. Her correlation of the laws of thermodynamics to leadership is truly genius and can help any organization develop the interpersonal skills that are so valuable in helping teams achieve great results.”
Management Analyst ยท US Department of Veterans Affairs
“Allison has a special skill for leading engaging discussions, asking very thoughtful questions, and responding appropriately to the thoughts and comments of the group.”
AVP, Human ResourcesNational Insurance Company
“Very engaging, encouraged participation without pushing too hard, concept was easy to take in.”
Business OwnerAnnual Leadership Event
The Formats

Three ways to bring it into the room.

The Keynote

See where your leadership is actually focused

The title changes to fit your audience, but the content stays the same. Leaders learn to see exactly where their attention is going, and what it takes to lead in a way that gets people to have their back, take initiative, and follow through, without being managed every step of the way.

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The Breakout Session

Put it into practice

Attendees take what they just learned on stage and apply it in real time to something that actually matters to them. They leave with a specific next step they chose themselves.

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The Workshop

Go deeper on a different challenge

A half day or full day built around one of the topics below. Teams work through a real challenge in the room and leave having already done the work once.

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The Workshop, In Depth

A half day or full day built around your team's real challenge.

A workshop is not a shorter keynote and it does not require one. It stands on its own. You bring a group, a real challenge, and a few hours. Allison builds the rest around it.

Workshops are built from the topics below, the wider set of challenges in leadership and partnership beyond what the keynote covers. The work itself is not a lecture. Teams work through their actual situation in the room, not a hypothetical one, and they leave having already done the hard part once, together, instead of carrying it home to figure out alone.

Half day

For one topic, one team, one real shift.

Full day

For teams ready to go deeper, often combining two related topics or working through a single challenge from multiple angles.

Every workshop is built around your team, your context, and the challenge you are actually facing. Tell Allison what is going on and she will build the format and topic combination that fits.

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Topics

Built around leadership and partnership.

01Leading changeand what it takes to lead with perspective and regulation instead of control.
02Team trustand why the problem usually isn't a lack of trust, it's an imbalance between trust and accountability.
03Confident teamsand what happens when smart, capable people all stay quiet at the same time.
04Mastering difficult conversationsand why most accountability problems are really an agreement nobody actually made.
05Work life balanceand why it is not a time problem, it is a fear problem.
06Thermodynamics of leadershipand how energy runs through your team, not around it.

Do not see your topic here? Reach out. If it lives inside the world of leadership and partnership, Allison can build it for you.

Book Allison

Let us build something worth talking about.

Tell us about your event and Allison will be in touch within 48 hours.

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You will hear back from Allison within 48 hours.