About Allison
Allison McMillan brings something rare to the AI conversation: the ability to bridge technical and non-technical audiences without losing either one. With over 25 years of experience, she's held engineering leadership roles at companies like GitHub—leading core product lines—and executive leadership roles across nonprofit and corporate industries, giving her fluency on both sides of how organizations actually work. Allison understands how teams actually work, where adoption stalls, and why most AI initiatives don't move the needle. Allison has used AI to transform how she runs her own business, and she helps others do the same. She knows that AI adoption can be transformational for organizations—and that getting there requires more than a tutorial. As a speaker and learning experience designer, Allison meets people where they are, building sessions with multiple entry points so no one is lost and no one is bored. Her talks leave audiences with real shifts in how they think about and use AI, not just a list of tools to try later. Allison is a transformative leader, Georgetown-certified facilitator, and internationally recognized keynote speaker who has guided organizations through high-growth periods, cultural shifts, and strategic realignments. Her work spans startups to Fortune 500s, and she brings both the technical credibility to speak fluently about AI and the human-centered expertise to make it land. When she's not on stage, she's working with leadership teams on the organizational dynamics that determine whether AI adoption actually sticks.
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