Our Team

Led by Cathy Robinson, Allium’s founder and principal, our team is drawn from associates across varied areas of expertise and disciplines. From high-level public policy crafters (memoranda to Cabinet) to policy problem-solvers to professional coaches, strategic planners, facilitators and communications experts (writers, editors, translators, graphic designers) we assemble a team to meet your needs.

We Suggest.

Once we have truly understood your needs, considered and challenged assumptions, and developed a shared vision of your goals and desired results, then we suggest an approach, a method, a plan. We prefer to suggest rather than advise. Through collaboration with us, you will know which suggestions to put into action. And then we deliver.

We Collaborate.

We work with you—and we are for you. We want you to succeed. In fact, everything we do is for you: from caring, to listening, enquiring, challenging and suggesting. As coaches and facilitators, we are trained and have years of experience in co-creating. We don’t want our work to be a mystery. We want to hand off a project with the skills to keep it moving. We want to leave a coaching client or team with the capacity to continue to develop. Curious? Ask us!

We Challenge.

We work with clients who are healthy and robust enough to invite challenge. Clients who are open to partnering their expertise and skills with ours. We consider challenge as part of our responsibility to our clients. Are you open to be challenged? Work with us and we will support your goals and results through productive challenge.

We Enquire.

We ask questions. We look for questions to help you dig deeper, to help us understand better. So we can serve you well. In all realms of our work—coaching, facilitating and consulting—asking powerful questions is one of the most important skills we bring. Before we start closing in on solutions, we make sure we’ve opened up the possibilities. Work with us and see how our enquiry supports you and your team.

We Listen.

We listen with the goal of understanding your needs. We listen to what you say, how you say, and we listen for what you don’t say. We want to be sure we understand your needs before we start offering, suggesting, advising. We trust that you know what you want and need, even if you don’t know how to get there. We can help with that.

We Care.

We are in the business of serving our clients. To do this well, we care deeply about your needs, your goals and your challenges. We demonstrate our care by listening, enquiring, challenging, collaborating and suggesting. “Yes” is not our automatic answer. In fact, we won’t say “yes” until we know it is the best way to meet your needs. Work with us and see how our caring supports your goals and results.