Helping leaders grow in courage, confidence and ability. Recent client comment: “Thank you again for all of your time and expertise today. It can be difficult to share about some of these issues. You are exceptionally good at your job and I’m grateful for all the effort and care you put into working with me.”
Alison Miller is a leadership coach, and a strategic planning, organizational effectiveness and leadership development advisor with over 30 years of professional experience, including over 15 years as a coach. Alison has held executive-level positions with information technology, management and human capital consulting organizations, delivering results by effectively engaging stakeholders, colleagues and staff. While she works across public, nonprofit and private sectors, her passion is helping elevate the government workforce. Alison’s goal is to help seasoned and emerging leaders make the best use of their talent and lead with more clarity, diplomacy and skill to increase the shared appreciation for our dedicated public servants.
Recognizing that clients often have too much to do in high-pressure, high-visibility complex environments, Alison provides practical coaching and thought leadership. She brings a deep compassion for each client’s individual stories, helps the client identify how to obtain the most value from coaching and co-creates small practices that address current challenges while building a roadmap to succeed at future opportunities. Alison collaborates with her clients to design actions that increase self-awareness about their current mindsets and behaviors and encourages them to incorporate new skills. Her support is always customized to the specific goals and circumstances of each client and includes resources and frameworks to reinforce learning and adopt new habits.
Clients consistently report their appreciation for her insightful questions, clear feedback and helpful best practices that create new ways of thinking and leading.
Experience
Coaches private, nonprofit and public sector clients in acquisition, administrative, financial, clinical, operational, research, scientific, statistical and technology disciplines. Her clients include C-suite and Senior Executive Service leaders, with most clients in mid- or senior-level management roles.
Current and prior government clients include the Environmental Protection Agency; the General Services Administration; NASA; the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; the Securities and Exchange Commission; the Social Security Administration; the U.S. Patent Trademark Office; as well as the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Interior, Labor, State and Veterans Affairs.
Prior to becoming a coach, Alison served in vice president technology and business service roles – a long ways from her first job as a systems engineer working on Navy ship sonar systems.
Education, Training, and Certifications
- M.B.A. from Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management
- B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Clarkson University
- Executive Certificate in Leadership Coaching (Georgetown University, Institute for Transformational Leadership)
- ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
- Positive Psychology Life Navigation Coaching Masterclass (PositivePsychology.com, Netherlands)
- RESET Program (Neuroscience to Reset Your Nervous System, Heal Your Trauma and Transform Your Life; Optimum Health Clinic)
- Trained in Radical Collaboration, Capability Maturity Model Integration Facilitation and David Allen’s Getting Things Done Work-Life Management System
Assessment Certifications
Bar-On Emotional Quotient-Inventory; Conflict Dynamics Profile; Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation Element B; Klein Group Instrument for Leadership and Team Effectiveness; Myers-Briggs Type Indicator; and Thomas Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument
Personal
Alison originally hails from upstate New York, but after living on both coasts for work, now calls northern Virginia home with her husband, labrador retriever and lab rescue mix (that was supposed to be only 35 pounds). Invests her free time in dog walks, being in nature, puttering about in the garden and holistic health research and practices. Enjoys traveling adventures in the U.S. and abroad. Relishes supporting the monarch population by raising butterflies (almost 1000 annually).