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.