Allison Clarke, CSP is an expert in leadership and influence. She's helped thousands around the world break through barriers to boost profitability, improve productivity, and increase team cohesion. Not your average speaker, Allison consistently challenges both her audiences and herself on a daily basis. For an entire year and counting, Allison carries out daily acts of kindness with strangers, colleagues, friends and family. She's completed the grueling Tough Mudder race and run a marathon. She travels internationally and skydives. All while running her own consultancy and being the best possible mother to two teenage girls. Known for dance parties in parking lots, workshops at funeral homes and spontaneous meetings with execs in unique off-site locations, Allison walks her talk. Ranked a "Top 25 Master Trainer" in the world for Dale Carnegie Corporation, Allison spent 16 years fostering and witnessing astonishing transformations, the foundation upon which she built Allison Clarke Consulting. To further explore and teach lessons of leadership, Allison extensively studied how others leave memorable impacts in the world: she attended 30 funerals in 60 days, and discovered that the dead speak volumes through the lives they've touched. These lessons inspired her book, "What Will They Say?" and its corresponding keynote.For over two decades, she has developed leaders in various industries by helping them become conscious of their words, thoughts, and actions. She believes that every problem in business is a people problem. Allison has developed effective leaders in a broad range of industries. Her clients include Intel, Kroger, Fred Meyer, Dick Hannah Dealerships, Anvil Media, and hundreds more. These diverse organizations have one belief in common: they know their company success depends on their peoples' success. She is also the past President of the Oregon National Speakers Association.