Ali Merchant

All-In Manager

👉🏼 My mission is to help ambitious managers become better leaders. 

I can help your managers in three ways:

1️⃣  Leadership workshops: 60-90 minute monthly workshops depending on your company's needs. Popular workshops include: 

1. Remote productivity, performance, and resilience
2. Building Psychological safety in a remote world
3. Delivering, asking, and receiving feedback virtually
4. Learning to become an effective coach.


👉🏼  "This is the best feedback training I have attended on this topic. I really like Ali's style and how he goes thru examples and breaks it down" - Sales leader


2️⃣ First-time manager training: A 5-week virtual program designed to get your first-time managers up and running. Topics include:

1. Understanding the role of leader
2. Building one on one connections 
3. Building Psychological safety
4. Delegate or DIY
5. Understanding feedback mechanics
6. Learning to become a coach.


👉🏼 “With becoming a manager recently, these sessions have really helped” - Engineering manager


3️⃣ Director and VP level coaching: Your leaders want someone who's a coach + consultant + mentor. Having coached for a decade, I know when to play each role.


👉🏼 "Ali's dedicated his career to developing leaders and it shows in his ability to effectively coach me." - Customer support leader.

Founder

Digestive Health Foundation

Board Member

Everwise

Advisor and Mentor to Managers in Saas organizations

Mentor

Marin Software

Head of Learning and Development

Forbes Coaches Council

Contributing Writer 

Gap Inc.

Senior Manager, Learning & Development, Supply Chain

iProspect

Director, Training and Development North America

Client Services Manager

Training and Innovation Manager

Training and Innovation Specialist

Search Marketing Specialist

Microstrategy

Production Consultant

WebMD

Software Engineer

I help managers become leaders in 12 weeks or less.

There are 1 of 2 reasons you're reading my profile.


Reason 1: You're a manager who wants to become a better leader.

OR

Reason 2: You're a senior leader looking for leadership training for your managers.


If you're looking to become a better leader. I offer training and coaching services:
▪️ Training: https://www.allinmanager.com/Lead-confidently-in-six-weeks
▪️ Coaching: https://www.allinmanager.com/leadership-coaching


If you're a senior leader looking to bring me in to train your teams. This page will help:
▪️ Training: https://www.allinmanager.com/corporate_cohort


Two more things:

1. I write about leadership daily. (500+ posts with 44,000+ followers). You can hit follow, and I'll show up in your feed.

2. I also write a weekly newsletter that goes to 10,000+ leaders. You can subscribe here: https://www.allinmanager.com/leadership-newsletter. 

If you're wondering who's this guy?

I'm the founder of All-In Manager: https://www.allinmanager.com/

We're a boutique leadership development company.

I started AIM for one reason — To help ambitious managers become leaders. We do that through training, coaching, and content.

Before starting AIM, I spent 16 years running Learning & Development departments for public companies, iconic technology brands in Silicon Valley, and the biggest Ad agencies on the planet.

Feel free to DM me and say 👋.

Paul Stefanski

The Bi-State Develpment Agency dba Metro

In this tenure, I have the responsibility to lead, mentor, and empower a high-performing team of five  analysts and system implementers to support 38+ different systems with a keen focus on maximizing customer satisfaction and improving business performance. In addition, I spearhead and ensure the timely delivery of multiple concurrent projects from the planning phase through implementation.

Highlighted career achievements:

•	Implemented electronic document management system, working organically with one department initially, resulting in the disposal of over forty (4), 4-drawer file cabinets of documents.
•	Provided strategic leadership for Next Generation Fare Collection project by writing core requirements for an Electronic Faring System RFP allowing selection committee to choose an effective vendor.
•	Led business intelligence effort to install and execute Tableau by working with each department to determine needs, enhancing skills and competence to assess and fulfill core KPIs.
•	Steered the successful installation and configuration of mobile data computers in all paratransit vans, working closely with 3rd party vendors, allowing Paratransit Operations to have 21st century mapping technology.
•	Jumpstarted struggling Operations Management software project by optimizing business processes, replacing underperforming staff, and forging productive working relationships with users leading to project finalization in 7 months. 
•	Overseeing and completing multiple concurrent software implementation projects, following core project management principles, resulting in 5 new systems for our customer service department.  
•	Reviewed and rewrote the IT department’s methodology documentation, working diligently with co-writer and management staff, providing a document that clarifies processes for the entire department.
•	Manage $3M cost center budget, with monthly, quarterly and annual reviews, resulting in being at or under budget every year.

Senior Manager - IT Operations Systems

Provided comprehensive data analysis on Oracle databases for third party developers and end-users.  Analyzed and tested fixes, changes and upgrades to multiple applications and databases. Maintained application tier production and test environments for IT Operations.

Programmer Analyst III

Decision Point

Actively coordinated efforts of users, vendors, network team and DBAs at Bi-State Development by designing and implementing an overall IT plan to replace 15-year old DOS application with Trapeze PASS v. 461 paratransit scheduling system

Consultant

NCI Information Systems, Inc.

Vital technical resource on high-profile projects using Oracle, SQL, HTML and UNIX. Wrote functional and technical design requirements and contributed to business analysis, coding, testing, reporting and migration.

Programmer/Analyst

Rose International

Engaged to develop report layouts for multi-family information system using Oracle Reports 6i, SQL and PL/SQL.

World Wide Technology

Key resource utilizing Oracle Reports 6i, SQL and PL/SQL to redesign and format Web-based reports for Human Resources, Business Operations, Warehouse, Financial and Sales departments.

Associate Developer

Sunshine Ministries

Managed a complex direct mail fundraising program for inner city non-profit organization and automated manual operations with computer technology. Supervised and coordinated workflow of 4-6 staff members.

Director of Development

Delivering Projects to the Finish Line || Project Management || IT Application Systems Implementation || DMs Open

I help organizations:

🔹 transform problematic technology into business solutions
🔹 realign systems that work against your goals
🔹 implement software that actually delivers value

On LinkedIn? I write about making technology work FOR your business.

Is your technology creating more problems than it solves?

Organizations invest heavily in the latest systems, hoping they'll streamline operations.

The newest software.

The cutting-edge platforms.

The most advanced tools.

But 18 months later, frustration mounts. Work becomes harder, not easier. Processes multiply. Complications increase. You've delivered a "system" instead of a "solution."

When technology works against your business, it's usually for three reasons:

Focusing on implementing software without defining the business outcomes
Overlooking how people interact with and adopt technology
Forcing existing processes into new systems without strategic redesign
These are critical mistakes.

Adding more staff to manage broken technology isn't the answer.

Creating more workarounds and manual processes isn't sustainable.

And deploying software with minimal training, expecting immediate improvement, is setting yourself up for failure.

Have you considered what VALUE your technology should bring to your organization?

Is your technology environment bringing people together or creating new silos?

Are your digital processes streamlining operations or creating new bottlenecks?

My mission is to help organizations fix technology that's working against them.

As a Project Leader, I'm committed to three principles:

Technology Must Deliver Tangible Business Value

User Adoption Determines Technology Success

Systems Should Simplify, Not Complicate

I take ownership of aligning technology with business goals so you achieve the outcomes you need.

I build collaborative relationships between IT and business users so technology becomes an enabler, not an obstacle.

I listen to understand your challenges so we can transform problematic systems into solutions that work FOR your business, not against it.

I help companies fix technology that's not delivering results.

Whether you need to rescue a struggling implementation, realign an existing system, or ensure your next technology investment succeeds, I can help.

Ready to make your technology work FOR your business instead of against it?

DM me and let's have that conversation. We can talk about how to transform your technology challenges into business advantages.

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