The Ally Co. team (team TACO) facilitating leadership and culture sessions - while wearing fun taco hats.
The Ally Co.
Helping create leaderful teams

We help teams to navigate power dynamics, communicate more effectively, and establish better ways of working together.

Find out how
TACO team members Jeff and Julie discussing lessons learned in the office hallway
How do you know your impact is aligning with your intent?

Even the best of our intentions can lead to disappointing or negative outcomes. And because we are not always aware of it, this happens more than we think.

Known as the 'intention-impact gap', The Ally Co. helps teams to develop the ability to successfully align positive intentions with meaningful outcomes and results.

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Julie and Henry using stickies to add to a team mosaic visualizing the key strength of one of their colleagues.
Our approach for activating meaningful change

Our work with impact-conscious leaders and their teams follows an approach based on feedback, experimentation, and agility - or as we call it, the 'Five Ds' approach.

Discovery

Be conscious of inferences, biases, and assumptions and choose to engage people in meaningful conversations to surface needs, values, and hopes and fears.

"What do we know about this from our team's perspectives?"

Discovery is about asking powerful questions, listening deeply, and acknowledging the people you’re sharing a big part of your life with.

Definition

Make sure that people are aligned on the understanding and meaning of problems, opportunities, words or terms, and any other signals that have surfaced.

"What is our shared understanding and agreement of existing challenges and opportunities?"

Definition is about establishing shared understanding, agreement, AND commitment, when it comes to the challenges and opportunities you will be prioritising and allocating effort to. In other words, it’s providing clear and purposeful direction.

Design

Acknowledge the feedback, perspectives, and ideas that people have contributed, and clearly communicate the connection to what you will (and will not) be prioritizing as a team.

"What are we choosing to prioritize, and how might we approach this work?"

Design is about engagement, alignment, and feedback-informed experimentation and iteration – knowing you will learn and adapt as you identify more meaningful ways of working together.

Delivery

Create the roadmap, get the right people in the right roles, and establish your ways of working. Do not forget to confirm agreement (different from understanding) and to set up accountabilty rhythms.

"How are we ensuring alignment, agreement, and traction"?

Delivery is about is about supporting team members through challenges and opportunities as they present themselves. It’s about the activation of awareness, skill, and commitment you’ve made together as a team.

Debrief

Continue to have meaningful conversations - asking powerful questions, surfacing helpful feedback, and making important decisions - to ensure the alignment of intention and impact.

"What is here for us now, and what is next"?

Debrief is about traction – moving forward through feedback, building capacity, and celebrating the learning (wins, misses and everything between). Debriefing is an amazing place for recognition and appreciation to shine!

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Core services

Cultural Alignment

Cultural Alignment

Helping teams to collectively operationalize their values, strategies, and commitments in the most authentic and congruent ways.

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Team Development

Team Development

Helping teams to cultivate and activate new levels of 'leaderfulness' in alignment with their business goals, projects, and operations.

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Leadership Collaboration

Leadership Collaboration

Helping senior and executive leaders to use their power to align their good intentions with meaningful outcomes and results (impact).

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Our team

We are trusted advisors, professional coaches, and business owners supporting impact-conscious teams with a diverse set of experiences, perspectives, and competencies.

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Our mission

To help create leaderful teams, where people consciously use their power to affect change in positive and equitable ways.

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Some of our leaderful clients

Glassdoor logoGoodlawyer logoTC Energy logoAMASS logoVillage Ice Cream logoChildren's Link logoTown of Cochrane logoBayer CropScience logoBrown Bagging for Calgary's Kids logoTamarack Institute logoCalgary Fire Department logoBig Brothers Big Sisters of Calgary and area  logoIABC Calgary logoLearning for Action logoFull Circle logo

Questions? Thoughts? Feedback? Whatever it is, we would love to hear from you!

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