Maximalist, book nerd, and non-traditional leader not here for business as usual.
about allison staiger
I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Equity-Centered Leadership Coach—and a nontraditional leader as a private practice owner, former business coach for therapists, organizer, and mother.
I’ve spent over 15 years walking alongside high-capacity, mission-driven people navigating burnout, responsibility, and leadership inside systems that were never designed with their sustainability in mind.
But I’m more than a polished bio and a list of credentials and certifications (and student loan debt).
What I really bring to the table is a ruthless ability to name the thing under the thing, connect the dots, and help women find their voice (and their power) in places that have asked them to be neutral. Because that's what drives matriarchal leadership-- not optimization, bowing to capitalism, or acting like a man.
And that’s what we use to build the DNA of your leadership practice.
Hi, I’m Allison (she/her).
my values
Integration
Creativity
Authenticity
Liberation
We weave them all together so your career, your values, and your day-to-day life aren’t constantly at odds. Because your leadership should feel like an extension of your whole self, not a place where you fragment to survive.
My work invites you back to the creative spark and artistry in liberatory leadership, and builds practices that feel like an extension of your ideas.
My work is grounded in a trauma-informed, anti-oppressive framework that imagines beyond our current options, into what it would take for us all to be free, and is ever-evolving. That means disrupting supremacy culture in your leaership practices, creating structures that actually support access without erasing you, and claiming your role in the larger cultural shifts we’re fighting for.
My work is grounded, relational, and deeply attuned to context.
Whether you’re clawing your way out of burnout, stepping into your matrarchal-leader era, or just trying to build a life that doesn’t make you lose your damn mind, I’m here for it.
I specialize in working with people who are:
Who I Work With
- Visionary and values-driven: This is more than “keep calm and carry on,” you’re here to lead in a way that reflects your politics, your humanity, and your hope for what leaership could be.
- Burned out by the status quo: You’re tired of playing the game: the "just put a woman on it" white feminism, the hierarchies, the burnout as a badge of honor, the pressure to be palatable, perfect, or apolitical.
- On the verge: Whether you are in transition, on the edge of something changing, or moving into a new form of leadership, you want the way you are working and leading to actually hold what your life is asking of you now.
- Ready to claim their voice and leadership: You’re done waiting for permission. You want to be somebody that actually stands for something.
- Craving a deeper connection to their work: You’ve done the trainings and built the skills, but you still feel a disconnect. You want to connect with the spirit of your work and be a good steward of your brilliance.
My Lineage
I think it’s important to name who we have learned from and why that matters.
My most significant teachers have been:
Kelly Diels
Shawna Murray-Browne
Trudi LeBron
Cara Kovacs
All of whom hold therapy, business, and coaching to an ethical, intersectional, and equity-centered standard that is sorely lacking within much of those worlds.
I am also indebted to theories and thinkers from Black and intersectional feminism, abolitionism, anti-capitalism, Indigenous Wisdom, and decolonizing therapy.
From them, I carry an approach that is
The model of trauma-informed care that I have developed in my time as a trauma therapist extends to my coaching and business practices.
To me, being trauma-informed means establishing safety, consenting to trust, having a right relationship to power, normalizing rupture and repair, honoring the brilliance of adaptive behaviors, and being actively anti-oppressive.
Trauma-Informed
We not only name systems of oppression, we continue to sharpen our analyses in order to get better at seeing them when they try to hide.
I take responsibility for my own unlearning, accountability, and reparations, and expect the same of my clients.
Anti-Oppressive
Leadership is always political, shaped by systems of power that can reproduce hierarchy, extraction, and supremacy if left unexamined.
For many progressive women in leadership, burnout and misalignment often show up at the point where those dynamics become impossible to ignore in their own work and lives.
My work is about understanding leadership in that context, and supporting people in building ways of leading that do not rely on those patterns to function.
Political
Matriarchal values center care, relationship, intuition, resourcefulness, and cycles of regeneration. They offer a different foundation for how we understand leadership and what it is for.
The capitalist and patriarchal norms may be the norm, but those are not the only ways to build or sustain meaningful work.
Matriarchal
My work is one small offering aiming to redistribute power, resources, and leadership in the systems we already know, while simultaneously working to build new paradigms.
It is not done alone, and it does not stop at my own personal gain.
Liberatory
When we work together, you can expect:
Humor and some swearing
Kind-hearted directness
A focus on what you need to maintain your humanity and the integrity of your work
To talk about how politics, white supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism inform your work
A high-touch, personalized experience, with me all up in your nervous system, emotional roller-coasters, and dark nights of the soul
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