At Sunny Hills, we feel very fortunate that Mike Allison was recommended to us as a strategic planning consultant. From our first conversations and meetings, Mike was engaging and easy-going. His knowledge of the strategic planning process and experience with nonprofits are both commanding—he wrote the book on it. Even more important, he showed a [...]
Peter Breen
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In the past 40 + years in the child welfare business I’ve been through almost a countless series of “strategic Planning” efforts. This one with Sunny Hills was the most fun, and the most participatory in which I have experienced. It was to the point, entertaining, but most importantly it sets a reality based direction [...]
Miguel Galvadòn
My first time working with Mike, he was assigned to us by a funder, back when I was an executive director in California’s Central Valley. Honestly, my first thought was, “Great, another know-it-all from San Francisco”. I couldn’t have been more mistaken. He started by listening, intently, punctuating that active listening with poignant questions. In [...]
Dan Flanagan
Mike Alison wrote the book on successful Strategic Planning…literally. There are people who are good at seeing the world from 30,000 feet and people who are good at keeping their feet on the ground – Mike is the rare combination of both. Mike’s easy demeanor is a steadying force, particularly when your organization is wrestling [...]
Chuck Greene
As an interim executive director at 10 different Bay Area nonprofits, I know that effective and custom-designed strategic planning is a must. I brought Mike in four times at different organizations to lead strategic planning. And although Mike literally wrote THE book on nonprofit strategic planning, each time we used an approach tailored to the [...]
Eva Paterson
Mike Allison is the person you want to call if you want to do social justice work in a first rate manner. Mike came to the Equal Justice Society several years ago and helped take an organization that had ambitious goals and too many projects and priorities and helped us figure out who we really are [...]
Selected Testimonials
He is as bright and an experienced facilitator and problem-solver as you can find, and he has an ability to engage on a deep and creative level. -Chuck Greene, Executive Director, The Cedars of Marin Mike brings a wealth of knowledge, a great sense of humor, and a singular commitment to the field that I [...]
