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If you’re ready to move yourself, your teams or your organization to higher levels of performance and engagement by integrating Culturally Responsive Leadership into your strategy and culture, I want to work with you. 

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I’m Allison, your go-to Partner for the ‘A Tavola’ transformation your business or hospital needs to evolve. 

A Tavola is a table set for a meal, it beckons, it’s inclusive, nourishing, and welcoming to whoever sits down to eat. It is a metaphor for the company cultures I help leaders create. 

With a long-standing seat at the executive table to draw from, I create meaningful and profitable results with the development and implementation of pragmatic change frameworks, detailed action plans, and good coaching. 

If you’re ready to move your office, hospital, or remote team to higher performance and engagement through Culturally Responsive Leadership, let’s talk.

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Now is the time to explore new possibilities and innovate your future.

There is always a trigger for individual, organization and culture change. Whether you want a consulting collaborator for a full-scale transformation, or require one to one support for you or your executive staff, we are your partner.

What We Do

Coaching Services

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Coaching Culture Strategy

Accelerated change is upon us. Companies that can face challenges like the COVID crisis, racial injustice, and political divide and pivot for increased positivity and productivity will survive and thrive.

02.

1:1 Coaching

One on one executive coaching can help you reimagine how you lead. My coaching is an inquiry-based approach to development aimed at creating awareness, action, learning and growth.

03.

"As Coach" Programs

A unique hybrid development offering for Physician and Business Leaders that focuses on essential coaching skills, practice and reflection with a Master Corporate Executive Coach.

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About Allison

Lots of coaches ask leaders about their sustainable competitive differentiator like it varies from business to business or person to person. 

Which can be troublesome because your sustainable competitive differentiator is not your business “fingerprint” or strategy. After working with thousands of leaders, I can tell you some of your “problems” are patterns developed over the years that can be changed with the right insights and tools. 

The people you lead are your only sustainable competitive differentiator. A lot of the people who reach out to me may be leaving potential on the table by not focusing on how to lead their teams, create engagement or communicate expectations for the most productive and profitable results.

Which is where I excel. After 28 years serving in Corporate Leadership roles, VP NE Coaching Market for Right Management, VP of Organization Development at the Lahey Health System in greater Boston, and multiple consulting engagements, I can:

  • Quickly identify individual and enterprise-wide blockers to behavioral change
  • Help you and your people understand Culturally Responsive Leadership, what it is, how it can transform your workplace 
  • Show you how to care for yourself and your teams in a way that rebuilds relationships, consistently raises engagement for the long term, and lights up reward centers in the brain of everyone involved
  • Move your self/team/organization to independent leadership
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"Working with Allison has helped me to become a better physician leader.  Because of her insights and coaching I have learned to be more goal focused and more useful to the physicians I work with.  Allison has helped me to see difficult conversations as productive and to see the dysfunctions of a team as opportunities for growth as we try to restore joy of practice to our primary care physicians."
Primary Care Medical DirectorNortheast Leading Healthcare System
"Allison Davis was invaluable in supporting and being instrumental in several projects that brought value to our health system. She was critical in working with us in developing a leadership program to support and improve provider patient feedback in surveys. Her collation of our research and the literature led to a groundbreaking tool kit for physician leaders. Clinical and HR initiatives are enormously advantaged when partnered with experts like Allison."
Chief Quality Officer Northeast Leading Healthcare System
"Allison did a leadership assessment on me, and it was extremely eye-opening. It has completely changed the way that I think, communicate, and strategize.  This window into self-awareness that she enabled me to see through, has optimized my ability to be exponentially more effective with my teams and the physicians that I lead.  She is an extremely skilled executive coach that I would recommend for all leaders looking for insight into their own growth potential."
Physician LeaderNortheast Leading Healthcare System
"Allison is welcoming and warm person by nature. As a coach, she is nurturing without being directive, supportive and empathetic in the best possible way – cultivating a safe space in which we can collaboratively work together to explore different options and find the best possible solutions to the issues that I may be having as a physician leader. She is highly skilled, and I would highly recommend her as a coach."
Physician Leader Northeast Leading Healthcare System
"Allison Davis is an excellent coach and organization developer in both healthcare and corporations. She has tremendous knowledge and experience of physician and leader coaching, strategy, organization, and vision for goal setting and achieving which was showcased in her passion for work and its people. I worked with Allison in coaching and program development, and I have always been awestruck by her commitment and leadership. She is a certified coach and elicits the strengths that we might be unaware of, thus transforming our fixed mindset to a growth mindset. Her passion and service to colleagues and organization makes her unique. She is an authentic leader who transforms people and organizations with her commitment, knowledge, experience and strategy."
Physician Leader Northeast Leading Healthcare System
"Allison Davis is a business partner in the truest sense, building relationships with physician and executive leaders to advance coaching and leadership development strategies across our organization. An innovative thought leader, Allison uses a practical approach to developing a physician coaching infrastructure delivering state of the art programming in a measured and effective way. In her role as co-chair of the coaching initiatives, she was passionate and won the confidence of our physician leaders. Allison artfully combined her understanding of organization and people dynamics to help us build a coaching infrastructure and culture; she has been a valued member of our team. Together we developed a Physician Leadership Development Strategy, where she learned how to best support physician leadership development needs. It was because of these characteristics I asked her to co-lead the Caregiver Resilience and Wellness Team during the COVID 19 crisis where demonstrated her skill at managing a large project and successfully working with many stakeholders."
Chief Medical OfficerNortheast Leading Healthcare System
“I couldn't be happier with my decision to engage Allison Davis for executive coaching. Allison not only brought some great tools and approaches to the table--I use them every day--but she also brought to bear a deep understanding of how organizations operate and therefore how to operate successfully within them. Her observations were intuitive and constructive and have helped me to become a better leader.”
VP OperationsFortune 40 Healthcare Company
"Allison Davis is a realist and won’t waste your time with a one-size-fits-all method. Her practical approach to coaching provided an excellent structure for self discovery and the development of specific action plans for change and affirmation. I would recommend her highly to anyone looking for an insightful coaching partner."
VP Human ResourcesHealthcare Operation
"Allison Davis is a seasoned HR strategist and practitioner. Her insights into organizational development and behavior are valuable, as well as her toolkit for improving organization performance."
Chief Operating OfficerHigh Growth Retail Food Business
"Allison’s ability to link the role of the Finance Department to the success of the overall organization was critical to designing a comprehensive associate development plan. This will ensure that our associates have the necessary skill sets to help us achieve our goals and objectives as our business continues to grow. Allison’s ability to keep senior management focused on the mission critical development activities brought great clarity to the process."
Chief Financial OfficerPrivate Equity
"In full partnership, Allison provided assessment tools to gain clarity on the abilities of my OD & Training Staff as well as what roles and processes would provide the most impact on our company. These plans allowed me to reorganize my staff in order to better align our roles with business priorities."
Corporate HR DirectorFortune 500 Rental Firm
"Allison is a wonderful executive coach. I gained a great deal of knowledge about myself throughout the entire experience. I know that I will be able to use this knowledge as my career progresses."
Manager, Human ResourcesSpecialty Insurance Company
"This may sound like a bit of an overstatement, but for me it is 100% true: the coaching I received from Allison Davis changed my life, both personally and professionally. I learned more about myself during the coaching period than I had during any previous experience which allowed me to better understand my impact on others."
Director MarketingGlobal Healthcare Products Leader
"I have known Allison as an HR line manager, a strategic OD consultant, and now as an executive coach. She brings a unique and very relevant perspective to the coaching field which adds great value to her clients. Allison shares a personal passion for everyone to excel in their work and personal lives, but maintains a very candid approach to keeping you accountable for your development."
GM, Consumer ProductsFortune 500
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What is culturally responsible leadership?

Simply put, Culturally Responsive Leadership means that you can relate to and have empathy for people you perceive as “like” and those you perceive as “different” from you. This isn’t obvious or easy. It means you actively do the work to engage team members, understand deep culture, and build trust. 

When this work is done consistently, both the leader and the team member are socially and emotionally invested in the work. From here, building the knowledge and skills necessary to shift attitudes and achieve goals is far easier than it would be otherwise. 

What’s more, team members become more empathetic, establish, and maintain positive relationships and make healthier and more effective choices independently. 

Culturally Responsive Leadership fosters self-awareness, agency, independence, and self-esteem which significantly contribute to your business or hospital’s success.