My workshops are thoughtfully designed to inspire, empower, and transform individuals and organizations. Drawing from decades of expertise in knowledge management, workforce development, and organizational learning, I provide an immersive experience that combines cutting-edge research with practical strategies.
Each workshop offers a unique blend of interactive discussions, innovative tools, and actionable insights tailored to address today’s most pressing workplace challenges. From building resilient workplace communities to fostering learning innovation and mastering sense-making, I equip participants with the skills and frameworks needed to navigate complexity and drive meaningful change.
Join in a learning journey that transforms challenges into opportunities, sparks collaboration, and fosters a culture of wisdom and innovation. Empower your team with tools that promote resilience, shared vision, and sustained success. Reach out today to bring these transformative workshops to your organization!
Building a Workplace Community
This two-hour interactive workshop is designed to empower participants to foster a thriving workplace community. Through engaging activities and guided discussions, attendees will learn innovative strategies to cultivate belonging, shared vision, and generational knowledge transfer. The session inspires actionable steps to build resilient teams, enhance collaboration, and drive collective success in dynamic organizational environments.
Designing for Learning Innovation
This advanced half-day workshop equips Chief Learning Officers, HRD managers, and training specialists with cutting-edge strategies for knowledge discovery, capture, and sharing. Participants will delve into proven frameworks for fostering both individual and organizational growth through training and development. Key topics include learning theory, talent development, organizational learning, systems thinking, sense-making, and innovative approaches to knowledge transfer, driving transformative results in dynamic workplaces.
Leveraging Sense-making for Organizational Performance
This dynamic two-hour workshop serves as a catalyst for transforming perspectives from system-centered to user-centered approaches. Sense-making emphasizes navigating the complexities of ever-changing realities by bridging information gaps through creating, seeking, using, and rejecting knowledge. Participants will explore practical methods for designing contextual, meaningful frameworks that empower individuals to balance structure and agency while adapting to their environments. This workshop equips attendees with innovative tools to co-create solutions and develop relevant, actionable strategies tailored to their unique organizational challenges.
He is an intellectually thirsty force of nature, dedicated to learning, spreading and fostering wisdom and education not just for his college students but for everyone around him. He was and is forever on the hunt for, or inventing, the next best step toward progress and improvement for all.
– Hock Hockheim, Lauric Enterprises
For over 25 years, Dr. Allen has been a source of wisdom and clarity for career goals and pathways on my scholarly journey. He was the first to provide a stepping stone and direction to help me branch into a new career pathway that would lead to not only financial freedom but also personal fulfillment and family engagement. He is a trusted ally for workplace decisions and an expert in building knowledge. The takeaways from him are explicit, actionable, creative, and life changing.
Jennifer Smolka, Lakeside Learning, LLC
Dr. Allen has an unequivocal ability to cut through noise and obfuscation to offer clear and tangible insight. As a person, he is unfailingly thoughtful and kind. As an expert, he is one of those rare breeds who not only knows his content robustly, but who can teach it in a way that is consumable for the audience with which he is speaking. He is a champion for others, and provides transparent and honest feedback, all so that others can grow. We call him a Sage because of his vast intellect; we call him The Shepherd because of his ability to mentor others. He is one of a kind, and immensely valuable to all.
– Mandolin Mull, MullMentum Consulting, LLC
I have witnessed Dr. Allen be both an inspirational leader and devoted scholar. His dedication to his research sets him apart. His commitment to continual learning and self betterment have made him an asset to all he encounters. In addition to his considerable intellect and exemplary self-standards, is a warm humble man. He dedicates himself to engaging with all those he teaches. He is prepared for all types of scenarios and can relate to anyone due to his vast life experiences. Dr. Allen is utilizes his wisdom for the betterment of all of his endeavors.
– William Ratcliffe, International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers
Fostering Wisdom 