Vandana Ram Allman, Talent Development and Senior Strengths Coach
Vandana Ram Allman serves as the Talent Development and Senior Strengths Coach at the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being. She knows that great leadership results from a confluence of focus in talent, experience, and development. Vandana has more than 25 years of global experience working with individual leaders and teams that span the United States, Europe, and Asia. Her dedicated mission is to help educate and advise leaders to make better decisions for the benefit of their organizations. Every generation has its challenges, yet the common denominator is that great leaders want to make a positive and lasting contribution. As an advisor and executive coach, Vandana has helped leadership teams achieve clarity about their organization’s mission, values and impact on one another and the constituencies they serve. Vandana’s work with leaders is both transformative and stabilizing.
Vandana spent a decade with The Gallup Organization as the Global Practice Group Leader and Senior Strategic Consultant for Leadership and Talent Development where she led the advancement of psychometric tools and implementation within complex global organizations. She has helped transform leadership teams in industries such as government, healthcare, intelligence, legal as well as companies who are providers to the U.S. Department of Defense.
Vandana served as an advisor to a firm of 1,200 lawyers addressing critical succession and executive development needs. There, she also led the effort to identify and advance the next generation of leadership talent throughout the organization’s widespread office structure and market coverage. Analyzing complex internal and external metrics, she identified and developed seemingly disparate pockets of excellence to accelerate the firm’s leadership capabilities, helping launch the firm’s new strategic plan with reinvigorated and intentional leadership. In 2016, she founded Avaz Leadership which supports leadership teams navigating complexity.
She has been a speaker before professional groups on topics such as Strengths-based leadership, adaptive leadership, and equity and belonging. Following her passion for increasing leadership competencies and capacity, as a Clifton Scholar, Talent Development and Senior Strengths Coach for George Mason University, she is also designing curriculum, teaching undergraduate students to become Student Strengths Coaches on campus while developing a work lab for students to advance their strengths coaching portfolio.
Vandana holds a Certificate in Executive Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University and is an ICF, PCC-level certified coach. She holds coaching Certifications in Gallup’s CliftonStrengthsä, The Leadership Circle 360-degree profile and is certified in Culture as well as Diversity to Belonging facilitation. Vandana holds a Master’s degree in Human Resource Development from Xavier University and a Bachelor’s degree in Theology from Xavier University.