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Allie bridges the gap from theory to practice, drawing from a lifetime of listening, observing, and serving, and from study of science, leadership, and ancient wisdom, including study with acclaimed eastern and western philosophers, during graduate school days at Harvard and NYU and throughout career.

She's a board advisor and mother who spent decades in high-stakes environments as a scientist turned award-winning leader who unlocked high potential in 1000s, and cracked the code on doing the same for young people. She has experience applying ancient wisdom, eastern and western philosophical principles, science, and Harvard leadership training to both leadership and parenting challenges.

Allie is author of July and Everything After, which was named to several prizes, and Notes on Human Potential and Resilience, and Advisor to the charitable Human Potential & Resilience Fund. 

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Allie is a truth seeker, practitioner, mother, award-winning leader and author, who's been deep in the trenches. As a child, she survived a violent personal attack during political massacres that left hundreds of others dead, and then years of devastating fallout thereafter. Inspired by those events, as well as decades of her work as an award-winning leader, mentor, and mother bringing out the best in 1000s of others, her writing explores human potential, the nature of perception and beliefs, and our ability to shape them to live more positive and resilient lives. Her writing touches on topics related to mindsets, and also draws from study of science and leadership and ancient wisdom, including  study with acclaimed eastern and western philosophers, during her graduate school days at Harvard and NYU and throughout her career.

Allie is the author of the survival adventure and modern tale of resilience and transformation against extraordinary odds, July and Everything After, which became a long standing top release, and was named a First Horizon Award Finalist, a distinction presented by the Eric Hoffer Book Awards to celebrate superior debut works, and a Hawthorne Prize Finalist, and named to the Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize Short List. Previously Allie's writing was selected for various award-winning and other publications, and her opinion piece published in Pulitzer prize-winning Sun Sentinel. She also has been a contributor to academic, trade, and policy publications, and was formerly a global writing advisor at Amazon. As an invited speaker, Allie has touched 1,000,000+ people through author events, ideas festivals, universities, conferences, company retreats, board retreats, young professionals groups, tv, radio, and as an expert panelist for WNYC (The Brian Lehrer Show). She has been awarded and recognized for her leadership and work by several organizations including Amazon, Harvard, Asia Society, and more.

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