About Al

I've been helping people develop their careers since I was a college student in the 1980's.  I had the honor or serving as an internship coordinator for UC Davis' newly minted Davis-in-DC Program.  While advising others I couldn't help but reflect on my own strengths, development areas, and resources, an awareness that better helped me set and, in turn, accomplish my goals.  Fast forward 25+ years and now I run a community dedicated to People Data for Good — promoting the ethical and responsible use of people data, analytics, and AI or the benefit of individuals, teams, groups, organizations, and society at large. The organization is PAFOW, Inc. PAFOW standing or People Analytics & Future of Work.  Pre-covid I ran conferences around the world and now I create digital media to help educate and inspire leaders, professionals, students, and policy makers. Most often, I work with leaders to help formulate work strategy accounting for digital transformation, automation, outsourcing, gig economy, remote work, and other key variables. This leads into creating sustainable ways of consciously designing the workforce and workplace over time.  Such work has afforded unique insights into what employers are looking for now, what qualities they're seeking in the future, as well as how they'll recruit, assess, and hire people.  To help with this I created the Personal Assessment & Development (PAD) Framework (for individuals) as well as the mirrored Talent Assessment & Development (TAD) Framework (for organizations). The ten dimensions within each capture the key dimensions employers evaluate talent, thus this same framework can be applied to how an individual develops him or her self.

Other specialities include team facilitation and interventions, leadership training and coaching, and a unique process used to help improve an individual's overall well-being.  My skills and ideas behind these services stems from my 25+ years as a professional, more than 10 of which has been leading People-Centered Strategies and the Talent Strategy Institute.  Other experiences include stints with Ernst & Young, Gap Inc., Infohrm (now SAP/SuccessFactors), and Kenexa (now IBM).  My career has afforded me the honor of serving leaders, emerging leaders, and teams at Apple, Cisco, Whole Foods, Gap Inc., Equinix, Mayo Clinic, Dignity Health, Stanford University, among many others.  

In the end, I'm here to serve, and I'm here to generate positive energy, hone intentions, and facilitate innovative ideas to achieve those intentions.  I adopt a beginners mindset in all my work so I'm able to co-create solutions most appropriate for the individual, team, or organization.  If you sense I can help, know I'll gladly listen, learn, and explore with you.  Just let me know.  

Thanks for visiting; and to makin' great things happen!

Al