Verna Allee has more that fifteen years experience as a consultant, author, speaker, and researcher in leading-edge management practices. She is a globally recognized expert in knowledge management, intellectual capital and intangibles, value networks and new business models.
Verna Allee Associates is a value network of companies and consultants offering global capability in consulting, strategy development and implementation, workshops and keynotes, web-based toolkits and applications, methodology design, publications, and research. Affiliate offices are located in northern California, Toronto, Brussels, Sydney and the Netherlands.
Selected customers
Customers include over 100 global corporations, government agencies, civil society organizations and entrepreneurial start ups such as HP, Environment Canada (government), PricewaterhouseCoopers, Oracle, Peoplesoft, Motorola, Primus, Rand Corp, Rockwell Intl., MWH, Sun Microsystems, Eli Lilly, Chevron, Unocal, and Identity Commons.
Selected projects and honors
Leading strategic executive-level strategy development and implementation planning in knowledge management, communities of practice, intangibles, and value networks for multi-national corporations and government agencies, including Environment Canada, Telenor, HP, Eli-Lilly, and Motorola – for implementation of strategic initiatives.
Senior Consultant and analyst for the European Commission evaluation study ERAnets applying social and value network analysis for evaluating programme performance and impact.
Honored as one of the top six movers and shakers in Knowledge Management by KM Magazine, July 2001. Cover profile, Knowledge Management, September 2003.
Selected books and articles
- The Future of Knowledge: Increasing Prosperity through Value Networks, Elsevier B-H, 2002.
- What Is True Wealth and How Do We Create It? Co-edited with Dinesh Chandra, Sharma Publishing (India), 2003.
- The Knowledge Evolution: Expanding Organizational Intelligence, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997. (Named one of the top 25 business books in Australia in 1998, with pending translations in Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Korean.)
Selected advisory boards, academic positions, and affiliations
Ethical Business Television Network
Knowledge Management Magazine (UK)
Advisor to the European Commission
World Business Academy
Advisory Board, Collaborative Intelligence Lab, UC Berkeley
Advisory Board, Knowledge Management Institute, GWU
Cutter Consortium, Business Intelligence Group
Brookings Institution Task Force for Intangibles
Visiting Professor Greenwich University (London), University of Waikato (New Zealand)
CROMA Business Academy (Zagreb), Hanken Business School (Helsinki)
Additional information
- M.A., John F. Kennedy University, Human Consciousness, Summa Cum Laude 1989, Specialization in Organizational Leadership
- B.A., University of Calif. at Berkeley, Social Science and International Business, Summa Cum Laude, 1986
Verna lives in the San Francisco bay area, surrounded by family, friends, pets, and wildlife.
www.vernaallee.com
