Fractional Ops for Mission-Driven Orgs

I make strategy and systems work to scale impact — without sacrificing culture or core values.

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I offer a fractional operational package, plus a la carte offerings to accelerate AI enablement and jumpstart strategy execution.

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We’ll partner to make our plan and craft a package that works for you. Non-profits may request reduced rates.

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I’m a fractional Chief Operating Officer who turns vision into execution and uses technology to do more with less, grounded in experience operationalizing fast-growing AI programs at Amazon and Crowe LLP.

I bring…

9 years of corporate ops experience, expanding young, global programs during high-scrutiny, high-growth periods and translating team culture into company-wide strategy

AI enablement and operations expertise, including spearheading a firmwide ethical development roadmap, designing training programs for applied AI skills, and building portfolio and product management frameworks

Journalist’s sensibility, a.k.a. the ability to rapidly understand and communicate executives’ vision into accessible language your teams, boards, and clients respond to

Meet Alison

My clients care about our world and want to make a meaningful impact.

They also face common challenges, whether startup, small shop, or large org:

  • Strong leaders are doing it all, burning out without support to both craft and execute their vision amidst high ambiguity

  • They believe technology-enabled 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 shrinks; they can’t afford to waste their teams’ talent on ad hoc admin and fractured processes

Offerings

Project-Based Ops Consulting

A defined operational and/or AI strategic assessment with a set timeline and clear deliverables

Fractional & Embedded Leadership

Ongoing, part-time support building or scaling an organization's operations function, drawing on years of senior ops and people leadership

Retainer & Ongoing Advisory

Standing operational support for organizations and boards that need continued access rather than a time-limited engagement


Operations threads organizational strategy into the messy, invisible, vital work of making that vision work across systems and teams.

It recognizes that technology implementation (especially AI) only succeeds with a holistic, intentional, and people-enabling approach.

Done right, operational strategy saves costs and reduces turnover, empowering your teams to do the work they actually care about.

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