Since 1983, Allard Institute Inc™ has been providing human capital and knowledge transfer services to multi-nationals and other private and public sector organizations in financial services, payments, health care, telecommunications, retailing and other industries of the information revolution. Our clients hold in common the belief that they will thrive - or fail - based on advanced utilization of knowledge about their customers, especially in risk management, marketing and lifetime customer value.
Allard's unique asset is our proprietary database of knowledge economy talent, representing over 35,000 of the best and most principled P&L managers, scientists, risk managers, marketers, data-miners, business architects, quantitative analysis, and innovative leaders who have been trained and developed in those data-driven organizations which have succeeded because they know their customers intimately.
The institute is governed by its Covenants, thereby joining respectful and sustainable business practices with socially responsible values.
Meet the Co-Founders
Susan Allard, Institute Co-Founder and Chairwoman
An expert on the American Innovation Workforce, backed by 25 years of proprietary research on job creation in the knowledge economy, Susan’s is a respected voice on policy and investment.
Since 1983, from its roots in executive search for financial services, Susan and her founding partners have cultivated the Allard Institute into a “one-stop shopping” knowledge partner and resourcer for business, government, and education markets both domestically and internationally. Specializing in financial services, where the knowledge-based business tools that drive information age productivity were first invented and applied, Allard has consistently cultivated the industry’s best business and scientific talent, with a focus on those capable to assume leadership.
As cross-industry demand grew for the Innovation Workforce that Allard was consolidating, Susan built up its “Bank of Intellectual Capital”, which today is a unique and highly concentrated repository of over 32,000 Innovation Workers and Business Leaders who have created trillions of dollars of new economic value through such inspired cross-sector successes as data-mining, automation, risk management, new payments technologies, CRM, rules-based engines, networks and new technologies, fraud and anti-terrorism, and e-commerce.
Allard’s clients include knowledge-leveraging organizations across industry sectors and around the globe seeking high returns on their investments in human capital and technology.
Susan started her career as a marketing analyst and service manager in the airline industry (international), subsequently achieving a senior level product position in Global Correspondent Banking at Wells Fargo Bank.
Boon Kang, Institute Co-Founder, Board Advisor
In 1975, Boon Kang joined Citibank in its great years of innovation and international expansion, where he pioneered retail banking start-ups and credit card businesses in Malaysia, Indonesia and Japan. In his thirty-year career in senior general management roles in financial services, Boon has lived and worked in New York, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Manila, Tokyo and Taipei. He has extensive experience turning around, building, and ramping up profitable new businesses in fiercely competitive Asian markets. With an undergraduate degree in Economics and Physics from Beloit College and a masters in Management Information Systems from MIT, Boon is passionate about the application of technology to socially responsible business practices. A superlative leader and citizen of the world, Boon created the Allard Institute Covenants, which make explicit our values, guide our actions, and guarantee our sustainability. Boon speaks Chinese, Malay, and Japanese, and is Chairman of the Board for the Jane Goodall Institute.
In addition to being a co-Founder, Boon established BoonAssociates llc, the business base for Asia headquartered in Taipei. Boon is an Advisor to the Board, and is additionally responsible for the Institute for Global Perspectives.
Jim Gorman, Institute Co-Founder, Board Advisor
Jim has an uncanny understanding of marketplace dynamics, and the new opportunities for investment that they create. He has a consistent track record and proven capacity for building shareholder value via new product development, organic growth, partnerships, joint ventures, and corporate mergers and acquisitions, across a number of venues from credit card to investment banking to internet platforms. His ethics, sound business judgment, consistent ability to create new value, and gift for leadership have all earned him on-going industry respect.
Jim has held senior officer positions at leading financial services firms including Citibank, Household, PNC, and Chase. He has also been instrumental in the success of a number of start-up companies. Jim’s accomplishments transcend the US, encompassing diverse markets in North America, South America, Europe, and the Middle East.
In addition to his advisory role at the Allard Institute, Jim is employed by Berkshire Hathaway, where he has responsibility for investments within the Americas.
Sarah Davies, Institute Co-Founder, Board Member
Sarah has built her performance capacity on the classic triad: superior leadership skills, innovative roles in pioneering companies, and a solid scientific foundation. An expert on enhancing productivity through knowledge applications, Sarah has experience across the full distribution chain spectrum from marketing to operations, business analytics, and collections.
Sarah is currently a Member of the Executive Team at VantageScore Solutions, responsible for Analytics and Product Development. VantageScore is a highly predictive consumer credit risk model, marketed by Experian, Equifax and TransUnion, that applies a consistent algorithm to expand the scored universe across diversity lines. Previously, Sarah was Chief Analytic Officer for IntelliRisk Management Corporation, Executive Vice President Marketing Services at First USA, Senior Vice President Marketing at Advanta Financial Services, and Chief Operating Officer at SkillGames (part of Walker Digital).
Sarah’s passion as a member of the Institute is to use her gifts and know-how to further global safety via socially responsible international development, serving markets for micro-finance and the underbanked, and talent mentoring and support programs to develop human capital to its full potential.
Lucie Fox, Institute Co-Founder
Lucie is a seasoned and intuitive executive search professional and recruiting partner, and has been with the Allard Institute since 1995. She has seventeen years of experience finding talented individuals (permanent hires or Business Acceleration Teams) to quickly meet client needs for human capital in today's knowledge economy. Trained in technology recruiting in the Silicon Valley in the 1980's, Lucie then joined the recruiting team at Household Credit Services (now HSBC), and helped build one of the most successful talent legacies in the credit card industry. Lucie is an expert in analytics, marketing, risk management, finance, operations, and product development, with a special passion for new businesses and new channels.
Foundational Beliefs
We believe that organizations which aspire to survive and thrive for the long term must be both principled and values-driven.
| Innovative: |
We help shape and create the future and leave a better world behind. |
| Transformative: |
We are a change agent for a company, an organization, a government, indeed, a society. |
| Pioneering: |
We investigate and invest in cutting edge ideas and technology. |
| Learning: |
Members and Clients learn from one another in order to grow and develop their careers and their businesses. |
| Socially Responsible: |
"We have a choice to give the gift of our lives to make the world better place." ~ Jane Goodall |
Guiding Principles
The mission of the Allard Institute Inc.™ is to make a difference by advancing the global knowledge economy towards sustainable development and the betterment of all living beings.
- Allard Institute Inc.™ is legendary for selecting not just its experts, but also the clients it serves.
- The branding of Allard Institute Inc.™ will be built by: the clients it targets and serves; the experts it attracts; the talents it develops; and the investors whose trust it garners.
- Reputation is the most precious asset and selling point of Allard Institute Inc.™. We expect each and every Member to share our Foundational Beliefs, and abide by our codes of Conduct.
- Repeat business and word-of-mouth advertising are the best testimonials to develop Allard Institute Inc.™, known for its professionalism, client dedication, and superb networking.
- Allard Institute Inc.™ helps its clients by changing behaviors, and by building leadership talents, not just developing managers.
- Allard Institute Inc.™ and its Members share the common operating beliefs of dignity for the individual; a balanced life; and each human's stewardship of the globe.
- The Members of Allard Institute Inc.™ are trustees of talents, know-how and other resources.
- "We are known by the company we keep."
Codes of Conduct
Our Codes of Conduct are the building blocks of our branding. They incuse our Vision, our Foundational Beliefs, and our Guiding Principles directly into the heart of our enterprise.
- Be easy to reach.
- Exhibit values-driven behaviors.
- Be respectful and supportive of others.
- Operate with unquestioned ethics and integrity.
- Deliver what you promise.
- Reputation always comes before revenues.
