Allison Linney is the President and Founder of Allison Partners, LLC, a consulting firm founded with the belief that people are at the core of an organization’s success and based in Charlottesville, VA. On that foundation, the team at Allison Partners serves individual, corporate, non-profit and government clients seeking to integrate human performance theory and business strategy. By focusing on organizational context as well as individuals’ skills and behavior, Allison Partners brings candor and experience to help clients achieve business goals while satisfying employees’ needs.

Ms. Linney has built a career of commitment to her clients’ achievement of their goals. A former consultant within Accenture’s Human Performance Service Line, she received an M.B.A. from the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia.  Together with her colleagues, Allison brings both sound theory and practical experience to the challenges of organizational development. She has worked with large public and private health care systems, large multispecialty groups, small group practices, HMOs, providers of healthcare information systems and occupational medicine services, and free health clinics.

Ms. Linney’s expertise spans communication strategy and implementation, leadership development, professional coaching, organization design and development, conflict management, group facilitation, training design, project management, change management and process engineering. She was selected as the 2018 Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce Small Business Person of the Year and serves on a variety of University of Virginia Boards and community organizations. Additionally, Ms. Linney co-authored a chapter entitled, “The Diversity Opportunity,” in The Trusted Leader:  Building the Relationships that Make Government Work and writes about leadership topics for the Allison Partners blog called What We’re Reading Now:  www.allisonpartners.com/wwrn.