Continuing Professional Faculty
Persuasive Communication & Interpersonal Dynamics
Leadership Coach and Educator
About
Leadership Coach and Educator Alison Meyer helps organizations and leaders increase human performance across people, organizations, and cultures. In addition to teaching, she provides designed learning programs, executive coaching, speaker coaching, and team facilitation and strategy to clients such as Microsoft, Salesforce, Ubisoft, SAP, PayPal, Google/Nest, Ziff-Davis and numerous start-ups. Prior to leadership coaching, Meyer worked at Apple/iTunes where she helped build the global digital content business, and before that ran a consultancy in accounting and operations for SMEs. Once upon a time she was an award-winning actor/singer.
Expertise and Research Interests
Leadership Performance:
• Leadership psychology
• Stretch Performance Lab: hands-on leadership experiences and methods
• Building learning organizations
• Leadership development
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion:
• Business strategy and value
• Structural analysis and implementation for change
• Interpersonal communication structures
- TEDxBerkeley: Tough Decisions: Use Your Heart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR33yerZgso
- Berkeley Haas Insights: Giving & Receiving Feedback insights.haasalumni.org/18/giving-receiving-feedback/
At Haas since 2009
2017 - present, Continuing Lecturer, Haas School of Business
2017 - 2018, Lecturer, Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership
2015 - present, Lecturer, Rady School of Management, UCSD
2011 - 2017, Lecturer, Haas School of Business
2009 - 2011, Graduate Student Instructor, Evening Weekend MBA Program
2013 - present, Leadership Coach and CEO, Unconditional Leadership, LLC 2005 - 2013, Apple, Inc./ iTunes TV & Film Programming 1995 - 2005, Consultant Accounting and Operations
- MBA 200D: Data-Driven Presentations
- Leadership Communications
- Active Communicating
- Strategic Communications & Storytelling
- Leveraging Equity, Diversity & Inclusion in Organizations
- Coaching Lab for Leaders
- Business and Organizational Leadership
- Data-Driven Storytelling