Allen Smith

Strategy & Enablement

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

Content Creation

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

Community Building

I'm an open-source veteran and dedicated community organizer. I have spoken internationally on a myriad of topics including software development, collaboration, project management, highly distributed workforces, and many others. I'm still working on getting booked at my daughter's career day though.

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.