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 👋.

Voyager Global Mobility

Voyager Global Mobility is the leading service provider to the smart mobility industry. We fill the gap between mobility network companies (think Uber, Lyft, Didi etc.) and those who want to work as professional drivers. We strategically source, allocate, manage, maintain and service fleets of rideshare vehicles. We provide cost-efficient vehicle solutions to professional drivers and enable mobility network company growth in key markets by creating access to vehicles and drivers.

I am the HR Director and Business Partner for 12+ US branches (outside NYC) and Talent Management lead for the company. I focus on creating a motivating and productive environment for our employees, who in turn enable economic mobility and create livelihoods for our drivers.

👩🏻‍💻 Led the assessment and selection of a new HCM system to transition off a PEO, creating a global single source of truth for people data.

🌱 Partnering with experienced facilitator to design and deliver the organization's first Manager Development Program leveraging spaced learning and group coaching to support on-the-job application and behavior change

Human Resources Director

Intelligent Careers Group LLC

✦  Certified Career Ownership Consultant - coaching clients on exploring career themes, crafting goals and action plans, as they chart their personalized intelligent career.

✦  Consulting with founder & leadership team of Intelligent Career Group to scale business and build engagement. Ideated and launched private LinkedIn Group as "community of practice" space for certified consultants.

✦  Presenter (Oct. 2024) - "Designing an Intelligent Career" - and volunteer (2023-2024) at the Association for Talent Development New England Area Conference

Advisor

Rivier University

Led HR team (covering Director's leave) with focus on onboarding, payroll, benefits, employee relations in the midst of a significant university-wide ERP implementation and team transition. Collaboratively designed first Excel training series for administrative assistants to increase productivity and efficiency.

Interim Human Resources Director

McKinsey & Company

HR Business partner for global network of subject matter experts (network grew from 1500 to 5000 colleagues) encompassing 30+ knowledge teams across Industry, Function and Geographic Practices.

✦  Innovated a first-of-its-kind rotational analyst program to diversify the early-tenure talent pipeline. 
  - Achieved 90%+ offer accept rate. 
   - Streamlined interview process developed for this program became the standard process for other early-tenure roles. 
   - Tripled locations and participants in first 2 years. 
   - ~2/3 of first cohort moved into permanent FT roles at the end of the 2-year program amidst layoffs.

✦  Helmed multiple development initiatives to build the leadership bench.
   - Established and led first global cross-dept talent review and succession planning process for Managers (level 4/5 in talent pyramid)
   - Co-created pre-promotion vetting process for Managers & Directors (level 5) with business leads to assess structural dimensions of role and ensure consistent thresholds for scale & scope
   - Initiated a multi-pronged development program for Team Leaders (level 3/5): mentoring, peer-led discussion forums, leadership connect & updates, coaching guides, access to reporting tools.

✦  Increased employee satisfaction and engagement by creating 2 new senior roles on an individual contributor career path
   - Originated a global talent review to assess performance and hold a consistent bar for promotion
   - Facilitated 75+ promotions/lateral transfers w/in 18 months.

✦  Directed a 3-person team in a year-long process transformation and system implementation improving the rigor, consistency, quality and efficiency of global performance evaluations for 1000+ colleagues.

Global HR Business Partner (Initiative Manager, Client Capability Network)

Talent developer creating conditions for employee success and growth for second largest global SME office location. Office size tripled (from ~100 to 300+ colleagues) and expanded to include corporate functions (IT, Finance). 

✦  Set strategy and oversaw delivery of learning portfolio to meet identified skill development needs aligned to global competency models.

✦  Managed, scaled, and continuously improved one of the largest evaluation processes for SMEs – from 1 committee covering ~50 colleagues to 4 committees covering ~175 individuals.

HRBP/Manager of Professional Development & Learning

Asked by office leader to expand role from learning focus to broader talent development focus when incumbent moved to a new role.

✦  Managed semi-annual performance management & evaluation process for ~50 business researchers including assigning and training new evaluators.

✦  Enhanced employee experience and growth by counseling individual contributors and managers re: learning options, skill/career development, performance improvement, team effectiveness etc.

✦  Assessed needs, oversaw design, managed delivery, and facilitated learning sessions, including redesign of 5-day new hire orientation program adopted by other offices.

Professional Development Specialist

Collaborated with Professional Development Manager to plan and deliver office-based learning programs; ensured awareness and managed enrollment in global role-specific corporate learning programs.

Learning Specialist

Led a team of knowledge professionals (4-6 colleagues) including advising consulting teams on the most relevant research methodologies and data sources, aligning project opportunities with individual's skills and expertise, managing team workflow and coaching/mentoring/developing/evaluating colleagues.

Research Team Leader

Provided bespoke quantitative and qualitative research and analysis to inform client recommendations of consulting teams. Trained researchers on best practice information retrieval, analysis and presentation skills.

Senior Research Analyst

Dell EMC

Generalist business researcher for an internal consulting team focused on business process transformation projects.

✦  Sourced and analyzed relevant internal and external data to support consulting teams and projects.

✦  Monitored industry and business press to keep team abreast of relevant trends, perspectives, new market research etc.

✦  Created networking group to share information and sources across various departments that leveraged third-party datasets (e.g. corporate library, marketing, sales).

Research Specialist

Performed qualitative and quantitative business research to help shape recommendations of consulting teams.

✦  Synthesized research findings to convey key takeaways and create appropriate deliverables (e.g. structured memos, PPT charts and slides).

✦  Coached peers on search strategies and usage of third-party databases and information sources in areas of expertise (e.g. US govt macroeconomic and demographic datasets).

✦  Triaged incoming requests and managed team workflow.

Business Information Specialist

As a Talent Development leader and HR Business Partner, I focus on driving growth and business results through employee engagement, development, and retention. My approach is to partner with leaders to understand their needs and goals, and co-create solutions leveraging my broad and deep people and org development toolkit. I am energized by shaping the culture and processes of innovative, collaborative, mission-focused organizations to create a workplace where talent thrives & drives business results.

Nurturing people also extends to delighting family, friends and colleagues with delicious homebaked treats - ask anyone who knows me about my epic holiday cookie baking :-) For additional fun, I'm also a dedicated fan of NYT games (Wordle, Connections, Strands, The Mini, Tiles) and a pre-publication reader (multiple novels for mystery author David S. Brody, 1 instructional technology book by Stan Skrabut EdD.)

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