Alison R. Brown
President and Principal Consultant ALMEC International

Alison R. Brown is the president and principal consultant of ALMEC International, which is based in Columbus, OH. Founded in 1995, the company provides management and employee training and development strategies and assessment tools that enable organizations to improve internal communications, productivity and reduce turnover and its effects. The consulting firm has worked with organizations of 500 to 50,000 employees in the areas of workforce diversity, management skills, facilitation, train the trainer, leadership, and employee relations. Clients include US Bank and the American Red Cross.

Ms. Brown worked for American Electric Power (formerly Ohio Power/Columbus Southern Power) for nearly 18 years before starting her own company. She is an adjunct professor at Central Ohio Technical College, where she teaches management development courses and has received outstanding evaluations from the students. Ms. Brown is pursuing a master’s degree at the Ohio State University in Labor Relations and Human Resources. She graduated with academic honors from Franklin University with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. She has met with and given business-related guidance to students at the Ohio State University. They will be the future generation of entrepreneurs.

Ms. Brown is featured in a book entitled Mission Possible Volume Three, (www.almec.com) along with Dr. Stephen Covey, Deepak Chopra and Pat Summitt. She is a contributing author to Real World Leadership Strategies That Work. Executives from IBM, Prudential, Principal Financial, US Bank, Verizon Wireless, and Hewlett-Packard partnered with her on the project. She wrote an article that was published in The Advisor by the Consultants Forum, a Professional Emphasis Group of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).

In the spring of 1993, Ms. Brown was nominated for Ohio Business Person of the Year, a prestigious award that has been given since 1956. She is the President of the Board of Directors for the proposed B.E.S.T. Federal Credit Union (the first of its kind) that is being chartered. The mission of the credit union is to serve the traditionally underserved. The prototype will be in Columbus, OH and then duplicated across the country. Ms. Brown was recently nominated for Small Business Person of the Year, an award given by the Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce. She is President-Elect of the National Association of African Americans in Human Resources (Columbus chapter).

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