Ali Merchant

All-In Manager

👉🏼 My mission is to help ambitious managers become better leaders. 

I can help your managers in three ways:

1️⃣  Leadership workshops: 60-90 minute monthly workshops depending on your company's needs. Popular workshops include: 

1. Remote productivity, performance, and resilience
2. Building Psychological safety in a remote world
3. Delivering, asking, and receiving feedback virtually
4. Learning to become an effective coach.


👉🏼  "This is the best feedback training I have attended on this topic. I really like Ali's style and how he goes thru examples and breaks it down" - Sales leader


2️⃣ First-time manager training: A 5-week virtual program designed to get your first-time managers up and running. Topics include:

1. Understanding the role of leader
2. Building one on one connections 
3. Building Psychological safety
4. Delegate or DIY
5. Understanding feedback mechanics
6. Learning to become a coach.


👉🏼 “With becoming a manager recently, these sessions have really helped” - Engineering manager


3️⃣ Director and VP level coaching: Your leaders want someone who's a coach + consultant + mentor. Having coached for a decade, I know when to play each role.


👉🏼 "Ali's dedicated his career to developing leaders and it shows in his ability to effectively coach me." - Customer support leader.

Founder

Digestive Health Foundation

Board Member

Everwise

Advisor and Mentor to Managers in Saas organizations

Mentor

Marin Software

Head of Learning and Development

Forbes Coaches Council

Contributing Writer 

Gap Inc.

Senior Manager, Learning & Development, Supply Chain

iProspect

Director, Training and Development North America

Client Services Manager

Training and Innovation Manager

Training and Innovation Specialist

Search Marketing Specialist

Microstrategy

Production Consultant

WebMD

Software Engineer

I help managers become leaders in 12 weeks or less.

There are 1 of 2 reasons you're reading my profile.


Reason 1: You're a manager who wants to become a better leader.

OR

Reason 2: You're a senior leader looking for leadership training for your managers.


If you're looking to become a better leader. I offer training and coaching services:
▪️ Training: https://www.allinmanager.com/Lead-confidently-in-six-weeks
▪️ Coaching: https://www.allinmanager.com/leadership-coaching


If you're a senior leader looking to bring me in to train your teams. This page will help:
▪️ Training: https://www.allinmanager.com/corporate_cohort


Two more things:

1. I write about leadership daily. (500+ posts with 44,000+ followers). You can hit follow, and I'll show up in your feed.

2. I also write a weekly newsletter that goes to 10,000+ leaders. You can subscribe here: https://www.allinmanager.com/leadership-newsletter. 

If you're wondering who's this guy?

I'm the founder of All-In Manager: https://www.allinmanager.com/

We're a boutique leadership development company.

I started AIM for one reason — To help ambitious managers become leaders. We do that through training, coaching, and content.

Before starting AIM, I spent 16 years running Learning & Development departments for public companies, iconic technology brands in Silicon Valley, and the biggest Ad agencies on the planet.

Feel free to DM me and say 👋.

The Cadmus Group

Associate

Client Delivery

•	Track and execute the development and delivery of an online data collection tool used by 100+ national stakeholders
•	Translate client priorities and requirements to technical team through complex spreadsheets, user interface mock-ups, and facilitating and supporting brainstorming sessions
•	Oversee and conduct editing of 3+ site pages used by national stakeholders
•	Create and distribute 15+ communications, resources, and products for stakeholders to use for successful tool use
•	Support updates and discussions on data collection, analytical methodologies, and qualitative and quantitative data quality improvements for client assessment
•	Researched and wrote 5+ 20+ page analytical products to summarize emergency preparedness

Business and Company Strategy Development

•	Led team of 5+ staff to design and implement 4+ business area meetings aimed at informing business development and marketing
•	Developed and presented consulting and business development basics training to 5 staff to assist business area meeting implementation
•	Supported business development through 3+ capture processes and coordinated one proposal with 2+ supporting staff
•	Created and facilitated 5+ sessions with 10+ Senior Analysts to identify personal and professional improvements in the workplace centered around time management, goal-setting, coping with stress, and practicing resilience

Senior Analyst

•	Managed homeland security data collection tool development between 5+ clients and third-party contractors that resulted in a new platform and platform tools used by 100+ national stakeholders
•	Drafted, wrote, and edited 30+ operational documents for 15+ Homeland-Security related projects for use of emergency management personnel
•	Assisted in the preparation and facilitation of 15+ stakeholder meetings for subject-matter expertise engagement
•	Conducted 508 compliance on 20+ emergency management products for use by emergency management personnel

Analyst

WIRE2NET LLC

•	Piloted regional program for countering violent extremism and terrorism prevention in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina
•	Collaborated with 30+ stakeholders of federal, state, and local: law enforcement; government; emergency management services; public safety; academia; mental and public health; and religious, immigrant, and local groups to develop 5+ programs, trainings, and events for community members
•	Provided policy information to regional stakeholders on issues relating to terrorism, homeland security, and CVE policy through open source research and discussions with DHS personnel
•	Organized with key partners NC Eastern District U.S. Attorney’s Office sponsored meeting for 50+ members from local, state, and federal law enforcement and local religious groups
Presented terrorism prevention program to 30+ stakeholders at the North Carolina State Office of Emergency Management
•	Developed framework and program criteria to qualitatively and quantitatively assess program success and implementation

Senior Community Engagement Coordinator

Evolent Health

•	Reviewed and entered 50+ health data points into database systems daily
•	Formatted and communicated sensitive health information among team members and leaders

Data Entry Specialist

Reynolda Nursery Garden

•	Greeted and provided resource and directional service to 3+ customers daily
•	Looked up items on databases systems, processed monetary transactions on register, tagged plants and office supplies to ensure proper maintenance and restocking of store items, sustained a clean and safe workspace

Garden Center Employee

AlliedBarton Security Services

•	Acted as point of contact for 20+ employees, 5+ departments, and 3+ regional and international clients
•	Greeted 40+ employees, visitors, and supervisors; answered, screened, and forwarded 20+ phone calls and mail daily; provided directional and resource service to 10+ customers
•	Administrated Outlook calendars and schedules to support multiple staff, client, and employee events and requests
•	Utilized security databases and exceptional attention to detail to monitor and record daily notes, processes, and issues

Security Response Operator

InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington

•	Coordinated 5+ dialogues among metropolitan leaders and staff, surveyed event feedback involving 20+ opinions
•	Analyzed, prepared into concise report, and presented event analysis to staff and program leaders recommending policy changes for future dialogues
•	Prepared documents and handouts for 3+ staff meetings, facilitated team and individual agendas with weekly follow-ups from meetings, processed meeting notes
•	Organized 10+ metropolitan leaders’ biographical information into Word and Excel for future speaker website

Program Intern

Allied Barton Security Services

Security Officer

International Center for Religion & Diplomacy

•	Processed correspondence and reports among internal staff and external contacts, attended and summarized 5+ weekly lectures and conferences for staff projects, participated in weekly staff meetings 
•	Monitored and evaluated developing global political situations, researched ongoing news and trends for staff
•	Assisted with hosting dialogue on Afghanistan through planning logistics, researching 5+ speakers to attend, tracking guest list, receiving visitors, setting up room, and writing summary on event

Research Intern

James Madison University

I was a double major in History and Religion. I focused on Southern and Civil War history with a focus on the religious and race aspect, yet also branched out to cultural and historiography parts as well.
As a Religion major, I studied a range of religious topics, including comparative religion, terrorism and apocalypticism, sociology and religion, the Bible, and Christian history and modernism.

While a student, I also achieved a variety of academic achievements. I was a JMU representative for the CAA Undergraduate Research Conference in April 2013. I was recognized as the Most Outstanding Religion Senior by the Religion Department in May 2013. I also joined a variety of honor societies, including Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Alpha Theta, Theta Alpha Kappa, and Sigma Alpha Lambda. I was also a part of the JMU Honors Program, where I completed an Honors Thesis in April 2013. Additionally, I achieved cum laude by the time I graduated in May 2013.

Student

Shoppers Food Warehouse

I provided detailed and friendly customer service, supported the management, operated the register, and maintained a clean and safe environment.

Cashier

People Management-Focused Project Manager | Data Collection Tool Product Manager | Team Coaching and Capacity Building

I am all about growth, learning, and being passionate about what I do. I do this not only in my personal life but my job. I don’t see why they should be separate. If we’re doing one thing for 40+ hours a week of our lives, why not bring our whole and best self?

I am currently a consultant in a firm, where I engage with clients, assist with business development, and manage a data collection tool. I didn’t know what to expect when I joined the consulting field—I always thought I’d be a researcher/writer—but I’ve found that I like helping make others happy, feel fulfilled, and feel empowered, whether client or colleague. That has been a theme across my career—helping people and processes grow, strengthen, and improve through critical thinking and creativity.

When I was a History student in undergrad, I shook off the expectation that I had to be a history teacher. As understanding people’s traditions, motives, and voices is important to me, I added Religion as another major. I studied both for the sake of learning. I met with professors after school to challenge perspectives. I read books beyond my reading list to study interesting ideas connected to my school work. I met with other religious groups to understand their traditions and perspectives and to see how they fit in with my own.

This aspiration for growth and challenge has taken me through two internships, where I pursued understanding religion, violence, and diplomacy in the international scene and interfaith dialogue in the local scene. At the same time, I hustled in security operations, often working nights, weekends, and additional days on top of the internships and excelling in raising the work ethic across the team.

Connecting religion, violence, security, and dialogue brought me to U.S. national terrorism prevention, where I had the honor and privilege of working with 30+ stakeholders in the Raleigh-Durham area. I listened to their challenges and priorities in the field, and worked with law enforcement to create a local vehicle to carry on the dialogue at the community level.

Wanting to know more about homeland security, I entered the consulting field, and here I am. I’ve found that, here and through my career, I am all about people and bringing what I can to them to help them be the best versions of themselves—whether that is empowering them in their role, making a space for voices and sharing ideas, helping to identify priorities and goals, or simply asking how they’re doing and get to know them better.

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