Allen Smith

Collaborative Organizational Leadership

I use facilitation, coaching, data, and empathy to help sharpen different points of view into consensus and then work to help folks execute their collective plans together. I believe the best leaders are committed to serving others, promoting belonging, and creating engagement in what matters.

Open Source Community Building

I'm an open-source veteran and dedicated community organizer. Having helped build global communities around popular projects such as Git and WordPress, I have spoken internationally on a myriad of topics including software licensing, collaboration, highly distributed teams, and many others. I'm still working on getting booked at my daughter's career day though.

Storytelling, Experiences, and Lore

For over twenty years, I have been building teams who create software, music, movies, campaigns, events, and everything in between—to tell emotionally engaging stories that bring people together. I thrive within constraints and seek out opportunities to create the things that others believe can't be done. I'm a self-taught expert at making mistakes, but I'm even better at learning from them.

Let's make mistakes together

Tools and Specializations

I challenge myself to learn new skills daily. These are a few areas of my expertise that I find myself tapping into most often to help creative teams produce the incredible work they have inside of them.