Leadership Advisory
Conventional leadership development works on skills and behaviors, the things you can see and measure. We work on the layer underneath: the relational field, the unspoken hierarchy in every room, the nervous system responses that shape how a team thinks before it knows it's thinking.
We call this operating below the line. Most teams live above it, performing, managing impressions, solving the presenting problem. Below the line is where the actual work lives: the fears underneath the conflict, the identity beneath the strategy, the body that knows before the mind does.
How We Engage
Ongoing thought partnership with CEOs navigating complex decisions. An experienced outside mind when the stakes are high and the situation is hard to see from within.
Working directly with executive teams on alignment, decision-making, and effectiveness, surfacing what is structurally shaping behavior and helping teams act with greater clarity.
Facilitated sessions designed to surface and work through what matters most, moving through the full arc of the work including live experiential practice when the team is ready for it.
Individual coaching for senior leaders moving into larger roles or navigating inflection points where the old strategies are no longer enough.
Allan works with C-suite leaders and executive teams at companies that stake their brand on impact and innovation.
He specializes in developing high-performing executive teams, coaching senior leaders moving into chief functional and general management roles, and advising executives leading large-scale growth and change initiatives.
Before his focus in the business world, Allan served as CEO of a national nonprofit dedicated to ending gender-based violence and was selected as a public health policy adviser during President Clinton's second administration. He brings that experience building political coalitions directly into his work coaching leaders to navigate competing stakeholders across complex global organizations.
As a doctoral fellow in the College of Medicine at the University of Toledo, he conducted and published one of the first neurobiology studies to demonstrate acute neuroplasticity in adults. He holds a Master's in Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, with a specialization in somatic and sports psychology, and a Bachelor's in International Economics and Neuroscience from Kalamazoo College. He applies behavioral neuroscience toward the peak development of leaders and their organizations.
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