
About Allison
Leadership is an inside job
Head:
​I’m a Fortune500 senior executive with 20 years of diverse leadership experience, spanning operational, commercial, and strategic roles. Most recently, I served on the management team of a publicly listed life sciences company as Chief Strategy and Corporate Development Officer, leading corporate strategy, M&A, and corporate venture investments. Today, I bring my expertise to board service, executive advisory, thought leadership and transformational coaching. With a background in mechanical engineering and a graduate certification in management, my career has taken me across the globe—working with both startups and multinational organizations. Now, I call San Francisco home.
Heart & Core:
I am a champion of healing, wholeness, creativity, and justice. A visionary leader with a gift for rallying people around a shared purpose, unlocking potential, and creating impact beyond what we imagined possible. My work is rooted in self-leadership, the belief that true leadership begins within.
A trained Internal Family Systems (IFS) practitioner and Mindfulness Meditation (MBSR) teacher, I integrate these profound disciplines, helping others cultivate presence, clarity, and alignment.
I am a writer and poet, drawn to the power of words to heal, inspire, and illuminate. As a teacher of self-leadership and an “interior designer” of the mind and spirit, I believe leadership is first and foremost an inside job. A warrior for justice, I strive to leave workplaces, projects, and people better than I found them.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Executive Steering Committee Member
The Courage Museum (NGO) 2024-Present
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Board Member
Analytical, Life Science and Diagnostics Associations (ALDA) 2023-2024
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Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy and Corporate Development Officer
Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, California 2018-2024
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Lead Board Director
Mission Bio, South San Francisco, California 2018-2021
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International Business Leader
Roche Diagnostics, Santa Clara, California 2014-2018
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Global Marketing Director
Biocartis, Lausanne, Switzerland 2012-2014
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Business Development Director
HTG Molecular 2011-2012, Chicago, Illinois 2011-2012
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Various Operational and Commercial Leadership Roles
Ventana Medical Systems (acquired by Roche) 2005-2011​