about Alison Bonds Shapiro

 

Alison is a highly acclaimed business consultant with over 35 years of experience.  Initially Alison operated multi-use commercial real estate, providing management, leasing and development expertise and working closely with the tenants and their businesses.  In 1992 Alison earned her MBA and began her practice as a consultant to business owners, non-profit executives, boards of trustees and individuals.

Alison assists business professionals and individuals with a wide variety of challenges as she guides her clients in understanding and working with their businesses and the environments in which they develop. In the course of its life a business will move through various change states including creation, expansion, integration, and divestiture. Throughout the process Alison's clients report that her skills and insights have made the critical difference in realizing positive outcomes.

Extensively trained in the hard, technical skills of business, Alison is also an emotionally fluent artist and transformational coach.  

Her skills in leading transformational change come from her own journey in living through transformation.   In 2002 Alison had two brain stem strokes, 24 hours apart, and was profoundly disabled.  She was paralyzed and, so she thought, without a productive future.    Through her remarkable recovery Alison has learned powerful tools that can help others face problems, no matter how complex or difficult, and find the seeds of possibility.  Her book Healing into Possibility: The Transformational Lessons of a Stroke, will be available from H J Kramer, Inc. in June 2009.

 

Alison's published illustration and art include:

Just for Today, and

The Adventures of Tigy and Elly

The combination of abilities and experience that Alison brings gives her a unique multi-dimensional view of challenges that allow her to help her clients find new perspectives and solutions to whatever they are facing.

Alison’s driving passion is to help people believe in possibility and realize their deepest intentions through their work.

 

Alison’s community service work includes serving as the Chair of the Board of Trustees of: Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center in San Francisco and providing ongoing motivational speaking for stroke survivors and others facing rehabilitation from injury or disease.  As a part of this effort she is creating a DVD to inspire stroke survivors.

 

 

Contact Alison by phone:  415-389-6831 or email: alison@alisonbshapiro.com