Allison Jordan

Owner at Allison Jordan LLC

Member since April 2026

Leadership

Education: Bachelors in History - Masters in Education, Doctorate in Leadership
Lynchburg, VA, USA
INVITE TO SPEAK

Biography

Dr. Allison Jordan is a speaker, facilitator, and collaboration strategist who guides organizations from good intentions to coordinated, measurable action. Jordan’s 20+ years across K-12, nonprofit, and community development sectors fuel a message that is practical, credible, and delivered with the kind of humor that makes hard things stick. Equally effective with emerging leaders, senior executives, and cross-sector rooms that don’t usually cohere, Jordan meets audiences of 1–1,000 where they are.

Passion

Collaboration, Women in Leadership, Community Engagement

Origin Story

I kept getting asked to keynote, to emcee, to step into rooms and help move people.
For a while, I just thought, “Sure, I’m funny. I can do that.”
But eventually I realized—this isn’t just personality. Its impact.
That’s when I stopped treating it like a favor… and started treating it like the work I’m meant to do.

Topics/Keywords

humorous tales from a successful female leader humor humor in presentations how humor can change the world facilitator mindfulness for educators collaboration collaborative leadership womens leadership empowering women womens empowerment inspire leaders creating and inspiring community community building community outreach community impact community networking community leadership strategic partnerships partnerships community partnerships teams and partnership nonprofits nonprofit boards building nonprofit organizations leading nonprofit organizations leadership development thought leadership thought leadership development organizational development collective leadership to reinvent organizations authentic leadership capacity building human capacity building leveraging strengths team strengths and strengths assessments career change managing change maximizing influence team leadership cross sector collaboration cross sector partnerships collective impact youthdevelopment communityservice service convening facilitating panel facilitator cliftonstrengths clifton strengths glass ceiling the glass ceiling breaking down silos breaking down barriers breaking the glass ceiling selfdevelopment self awareness self awareness for success personal growth personal empowerment worklife balance you can have it all worklife balance work life balance balance professional growth development professional development young professional young women young leaders teenagers working parents parenthood mom of teenager measuring what matters measuring impact and effectiveness the intersection of faith and work the power of faith adding fun and purpose to our work life purposeful reorganization worklife integration female rivalry survival to thrival board readiness women on boards engaging vision sessions with the board personal vision make your vision a reality
I am willing to travel more than 100 miles
Yes
Everything is negotiable

Origin Story

I kept getting asked to keynote, to emcee, to step into rooms and help move people.
For a while, I just thought, “Sure, I’m funny. I can do that.”
But eventually I realized—this isn’t just personality. Its impact.
That’s when I stopped treating it like a favor… and started treating it like the work I’m meant to do.

I am willing to travel more than 100 miles
Yes
Everything is negotiable

Topics/Keywords

humorous tales from a successful female leader humor humor in presentations how humor can change the world facilitator mindfulness for educators collaboration collaborative leadership womens leadership empowering women womens empowerment inspire leaders creating and inspiring community community building community outreach community impact community networking community leadership strategic partnerships partnerships community partnerships teams and partnership nonprofits nonprofit boards building nonprofit organizations leading nonprofit organizations leadership development thought leadership thought leadership development organizational development collective leadership to reinvent organizations authentic leadership capacity building human capacity building leveraging strengths team strengths and strengths assessments career change managing change maximizing influence team leadership cross sector collaboration cross sector partnerships collective impact youthdevelopment communityservice service convening facilitating panel facilitator cliftonstrengths clifton strengths glass ceiling the glass ceiling breaking down silos breaking down barriers breaking the glass ceiling selfdevelopment self awareness self awareness for success personal growth personal empowerment worklife balance you can have it all worklife balance work life balance balance professional growth development professional development young professional young women young leaders teenagers working parents parenthood mom of teenager measuring what matters measuring impact and effectiveness the intersection of faith and work the power of faith adding fun and purpose to our work life purposeful reorganization worklife integration female rivalry survival to thrival board readiness women on boards engaging vision sessions with the board personal vision make your vision a reality