Hello Seven ROI: The Millionaire Summit

Alison T. McNeil is a nationally recognized award winning strategic thinker and creative entrepreneur. She leads with the intention of creating resources, removing roadblocks and designing roadmaps to make arts and culture accessible to the historically excluded. For over 20 years, Alison’s work has addressed the disparities that exist in funding, hiring, and documenting impact. Her work is done in service to elders that invested in her creativity and talent and rooted in arts advocacy and justice. A sought after strategic advisor, she’s led multi-million-dollar change efforts that have informed policy and grantmaking, strengthened operations, developed mutually beneficial strategic partnerships, and expanded performance measures to assist with documenting impact for emerging leaders, artists, performing arts administrators, college administrators, grantmakers, and government officials. She has created invaluable spaces for women of color, authored numerous publications and delivered presentations on entrepreneurship, equitable and culturally responsive evaluation, human-centered hiring processes and systemic change. In 2009, she co-founded Women of Color in the Arts (WOCA), a membership-based service organization-with over 600 members- dedicated to promoting equity and fortifying leadership in the performing arts administration field. Since 2016, Alison has been the Chief Creative Officer of McNeil Creative Enterprises (MCE).