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Allison Bailey is Vice Chair of Boston Consulting Group’s People & Organization practice. She joined Boston Consulting Group in 1987 and has worked in the firm’s New York, Chicago, Atlanta, London, Milan, and Boston offices. She has worked extensively with clients on issues related to strategy, growth, organization, large-scale transformation, operational improvement, turnaround, M&A, and postmerger integration.

Allison counsels CEOs on setting overall strategic direction, managing through transition, building effective leadership teams, and driving value. Her experience is global and covers industries including media and technology, consumer goods, health care, education, and financial services.

Allison is a former BCG Fellow. The topic of her research was digital education and the potential it holds for primary, secondary, and postsecondary learning. The goal of Allison’s fellowship was to understand how digital forces are shaping our education landscape—creating new winners and losers, changing traditional economics, and offering the power to educate the next generation in fundamentally new ways.

In addition to her research and client experience, Allison has held several internal leadership positions at BCG, including serving as a member of the North America management team and Women@BCG. She also led several efforts to build new practices within the firm, including the Education and Public Sector practices. Prior to joining BCG, she worked for Banker's Trust as an associate in corporate finance and the World Bank (IFC), where she was involved in privatizing organizations in Eastern Europe.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

EDUCATION

  • MBA, Wharton School
  • MA, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
  • MA, with distinction, School of Advanced International Studies of John Hopkins University
  • BA, cum laude, Dartmouth College

Publications and Videos

Invest in Your People for the Future

A future-built company knows how to attract, retain, and develop the best talent.

Reskilling and Upskilling for the Future

BCG’s Allison Bailey and Vlad Lukic discuss the massive opportunity for leaders to rethink: skills, roles, career paths, operating models, processes, in order to jump start progress of organizations forward.

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The Path to Generative AI Value Begins with a Workforce Diagnostic

Generative AI presents both benefits and challenges to organizations. BCG’s GenAI Workforce Productivity Diagnostic helps companies define a clear path to successfully implement this transformative technology.

What’s Possible? GenAI and People

Allison Bailey explores the new future of work, where gaining competitive advantage from generative AI will demand far-reaching redesigns of organizations and human resources.

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How Generative AI Will Transform HR

HR is stepping into a future of more powerful core capabilities and stronger strategic leadership—and GenAI is central to this change.
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Competing in the Digital Era with the Flywheel Operating Model

Here’s what it takes for businesses to achieve innovation at speed and scale.
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Talent Is the Great Antidote to Uncertainty

Attracting the right talent—and optimizing the skills of the current workforce—creates a “people advantage” that can help an organization navigate these uncertain times.
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Tapping into Fluid Talent

Companies take three key actions to find talent in new and hidden places.
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The Organization of the Future Is Fractal

Scale isn’t dead. But it’s critical to find the right balance between scale and fractal principles—and to do it before your competitors do.
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The $12 Billion Opportunity in HR Technology

A flood of new solutions is vying to help companies manage their workforce. In this crowded market, players can pursue three strategies to win share.

What Is the Opportunity Ahead for Shifting Work?

BCG’s Allison Bailey, Debbie Lovich, and Karalee Close shared their thoughts on the future of work at a recent Bloomberg Live event. They explained why leaders should take advantage of the current clean-sheet opportunity to broadly, intentionally, and boldly rethink what work is and how we do it.

What Is Our Advice for Clients About Shifting Work?

BCG’s Allison Bailey, Debbie Lovich, and Karalee Close shared their thoughts on the future of work at a recent Bloomberg Live event. They explained why leaders should take advantage of the current clean-sheet opportunity to broadly, intentionally, and boldly rethink what work is and how we do it.