Hi, I’m Alison.
I operationalize systems and strategy for mission-driven organizations, grounded in 9 years leading AI programs. I execute on leaders’ vision amidst ambiguity, leveraging technology to do more with less to scale your impact, without sacrificing culture or core values.
My Offerings
AI Enablement Working Session
Empower your teams to take advantage of AI tools in an ongoing, high-impact manner. These 4-hour sessions include foundational learnings on how Large Language Models work (including risk and ethics considerations), then move into focused working sessions on your system of choice to identify problem areas that match with AI capabilities, and enable your team to tackle them with AI following design thinking best practices.
4-hour sessions
Combined or spread across multiple days
$$ flat fee
Multiple AI systems and/or bespoke tools may require additional costs
Strategy Execution Sprint
A short-term engagement designed to review key systems and tools against your strategic goals. What’s serving you and what’s bogging you down? Resulting recommendations will include gap identification, process improvement opportunities, and a playbook to implement change (including recommended AI tools and in-house communication strategies).
4-8 weeks
Varies on organization size
$$ flat fee
Assumes organizational strategy established within X months
Fractional COO - Systems Strategy
15- to 30 hours per week focused on identifying system and tool gaps and opportunities, creating an integration strategy, and driving implementation, creating in-house champions and scalable, repeatable systems to ensure meaningful impact long after the engagement is complete.
15- to 30 hours per week
Varies on client need and budget
$$ per hour
Baseline hourly fee; see sliding scale
Fractional COO - Operational Maturity
This transitional offering supports organizations moving from smaller, flatter teams into bigger, more complex structures. What works when you started might no longer serve. I help navigate the transition to a larger team with documented, repeatable, and scalable processes that don’t damage existing culture along the way.
15- to 30 hours per week
Varies on client need and budget
$$ per hour
Baseline hourly fee; see sliding scale
My clients care about our world and want to make a real impact.
They also face common headwinds:
Strong leaders are burning out without sufficient support to execute the vision they’re simultaneously tasked with crafting
They believe technology-driven change is vital, but recognize leading solutions are unproven, ungoverned, or unethical; it’s moving too fast to implement alone
Need is growing as funding opportunities shrink; they know they must do even more with even less.
Vocabulary Minute