Facilitating collaboration.
Driving innovation.

Allison Barron is an independent consultant with a proven track record of helping leaders translate vision into action. A strategic thinker with a knack for seeing both the forest and the trees, Allison is known for keeping teams focused on their top priorities while facilitating collaboration and driving innovation.

Diverse Experience Across Sectors

Allison has fifteen years of experience in non-profits, foundations, academia, and for-profit businesses, with special expertise in managing cross-sector initiatives. As a consultant, Allison has managed the research of Rise Up Cambridge, the nation’s first non-lottery guaranteed basic income pilot. Working in collaboration with Senior Evaluation and Learning Consultant, Keri-Nicole Dillman, Ph.D., Allison has supported a strategic planning process for the Massachusetts Coalition for Racial Equity in Housing, funded by The Boston Foundation, and collaborated on the design of a a first-time homebuyer program and year one implementation plan for IBA Boston, a leading community development corporation.

In addition, Allison has provided fractional Chief of Staff services to a number of small businesses. In this role she provides flexible capacity for busy executives, overseeing initiatives like annual goal setting, operational systems building, launching new service areas, and developing hiring plans.

Leadership in Community Initiatives:

Previously, Allison launched and directed Boston Builds Credit, an initiative of the United Way and City of Boston. In this role, Allison built the network of community partners, industry leaders, and policymakers needed to expand access to safe, quality credit building education and products, and crafted a governance and racial equity strategy to share power and ensure the initiative aligned with community needs. Allison’s prior roles include work for the New York Community Trust, Catholic Charities Boston, the national restaurant chain B.GOOD, and more. She has built strategic plans, managed boards, set up foundations, built community engagement strategies, and taught a course on social impact management at Boston College.

Education and Community Engagement

Allison holds a BA from Washington University in St. Louis, and a Master’s in Public Administration from New York University. She serves on the Community Advisory Board for WBUR and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband and daughter.