Allison Whiting, Founder of Intent

 

Allison grew up in Farmington, Michigan, born into a family of educators. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at Eastern Michigan University and continued on for a master’s program in Organizational Design at the University of Michigan. While Allison was intuitively attracted to business and organizational strategy in her studies, she has a unique talent for leveraging academic training with her natural ability as a facilitator and coach.

Allison is trained in conventional practices like “the Five Lean Principles”, and is a certified partner for Wiley Technologies’ Authorized 5 Behaviors® and DISC®. With over 2 decades of employing these classic methodologies Allison has been able to expand into customized design. Allison takes a “meet you where you are” approach by interpreting, diagnosing, and developing tailored programs unique to any business type, size and leadership style.

 
 
 

Allison has dedicated her more than 20-year professional career to improving corporate culture across all sizes of organizations and all types of industries. She has supported companies through mergers and acquisitions by building strong, cohesive teams aligned with purpose, and has partnered with several “Great Place to Work” companies to build award-winning cultures. Whether you’re a small business owner, scaling through rapid growth, or part of a Fortune 500 company, Allison has extensive experience and understands that the only true path to success is the same – people. Without fierce dedication to training, empowering, and nurturing a healthy, balanced group of individuals, no company will thrive.

In her role as a consultant and change agent, Allison has worked extensively with both high-growth and mature (Fortune 500) clients to:

  • Organizational health and culture.

  • And develop leadership talent, and build cohesive leadership teams.

  • Individuals at all levels to engage, activate and embrace accountability.

  • Organizations around key strategic priorities – to distill and ensure the collective achievement of goals, success, and growth.

 

When Allison is not bringing people of a company together, she is bringing people in her community together. She is a certified yoga instructor, an avid traveler, and the co-founder of a community-based outdoor concert series in her hometown of Victor, NY. Allison is living her best life with her husband Trevor, her kids Makenna, Dylan, and Liam, and her Labrador babies Luna and Mosely.