Allison Thorne / Consultant
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Allison is a highly motivated consultant and global project manager with extensive experience engaging in multisectoral projects with both the public and private sectors. With consulting experience on five continents, Allison thrives in a fast-paced environment and can adapt and excel under any circumstance.
Before joining Kisserup, Allison served as the director of a co-working center and start-up incubator in New Brunswick, Canada. In this role, Allison consulted and assisted clientele composed of local and high-potential immigrant entrepreneurs. This experience instilled in Allison a keen cultural sensitivity as well as the ability to deliver concrete metrics. Since 2018, Allison has led or been a matchmaker and/or logistics coordinator on fifteen trade missions, working directly with over 200 SMEs seeking to develop their export capacity globally. Within each of these trade missions, Allison led one-on-one meetings with delegates to understand their goals for engaging in export promotion, giving her an acute understanding of the influences that impact small and medium size businesses when developing their international export plans. |
As a researcher, Allison has experience engaging with multi-national corporations, global financial institutions, national governments, and NGOs as a primary researcher leading interviews while managing stakeholder communications.
Allison holds a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from Acadia University and a Master of Global Business Degree from the Tri-Continental program through the University of Victoria in Canada, Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and CENTRUM Graduate Business School in Lima, Peru. In 2022, Allison became a Certified International Trade Professional, CITP®|FIBP®, through the Forum for International Trade Training (FITT) where she was awarded the highest score for the International Sales and Marketing Plan in 2020. Allison has also completed the Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+) course through the Government of Canada and has various certifications from “I Know Gender” a United Nations Women-based initiative. Allison is a native English speaker with full bilingual professional proficiency in French.
Allison holds a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from Acadia University and a Master of Global Business Degree from the Tri-Continental program through the University of Victoria in Canada, Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and CENTRUM Graduate Business School in Lima, Peru. In 2022, Allison became a Certified International Trade Professional, CITP®|FIBP®, through the Forum for International Trade Training (FITT) where she was awarded the highest score for the International Sales and Marketing Plan in 2020. Allison has also completed the Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+) course through the Government of Canada and has various certifications from “I Know Gender” a United Nations Women-based initiative. Allison is a native English speaker with full bilingual professional proficiency in French.