Meet David and Allison

David grew up in Detroit, the only child in his family. After graduating from high school, David attended Princeton University where he earned his undergraduate degree in Computer Science. He then studied City Planning at The University of California, Berkley. After completing his doctoral degree with a dissertation in the cultural effects if urban planning, David went to work for the Clinton administration’s “Conversations on Race” initiative.

Through the course of his 25 year career as a featured presenter, Dr. David Campt (@thedialogueguy) has helped groups focus on a variety of topics including strategic planning, conflict resolution, creating more inclusive decision-making, leadership succession, cultural competence, and many others. His clients have varied widely and have included: the US military, The White House, large corporations, international organizations, foundations, governments, universities, national associations, and non-profit groups.

David is considered a national expert in the areas of inclusion and equity, stakeholder engagement, and conflict resolution and dialogue. His insights about the keys to more effective institutions and communities have been sought by small executive boards consisting of of fewer than a dozen members to large-scale summits involving thousands of people.  In addition to speaking on these topics to live audiences, he also has numerous media appearances offering an expert perspective. He has appeared on national media outlets as well as local television, radio, and print media all across the United States.

David Campt is also available as a keynote speaker or media expert.

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Allison is an anti-racism trainer, learning designer, public speaker, and change consultant. After a decade in the classroom, she earned her Masters in School Leadership from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2008 with a focus on equity, excellence, and change management. As an educator,she consistently succeeded in closing both achievement and discipline gaps. After 20 years as an educational leader, she entered the world of advocacy to address structural racism through education and community organizing. She was awarded several grants to complete projects focused on increasing awareness and commitment to equity in local communities. In 2015, she founded Red Fern, LLC a consulting company focused on creating Virtual Reality (VR) experiences to increase human understanding. She continues to lead Red Fern as the CEO. In 2018, she joined the Dialogue Company as a co-facilitator of the Ally Conversation Toolkit Workshop, and her work as an anti-racism trainer entered the corporate arena. She earned a certificate in High Performance Learning Journey design (HPLJ) in 2019 and worked to translate the ACT toolkit into a transformative learning experience applicable across domains. Thousands of workshop participants have now experienced the transformative power of effective dialogue as a tool to advance racial equity. In 2021, Allison became a Partner at the Dialogue Company, focusing on customized learning design and training delivery with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

As a learning intervention designer, Allison partners with clients to understand their goals with regard to DEI. She uses multiple methods including but not limited to, the Intercultural Development Inventory(™) and the Conflict Style Inventory(™) to assess current beliefs and institutional culture and structure. She then crafts learning interventions to help groups and individuals connect anti-racism efforts to performance metrics and tangible outcomes. She has taught scores of large-group workshops for corporations and nonprofits large and small, facilitated large and small group dialogues, and designed many multi- stage learning journeys – all with the focus on raising individual awareness to recognize and overcome bias and barriers to equity and inclusion. 

Allison is heavily involved in her local community, serving on the Human Relations Commission, the Board of her religious congregation, the executive board and equity committee of the NC Council of Churches, and is the secretary of her local branch of the NAACP.