About Alison
I see what
you can't
see from
inside it.
Early in my career I wasn't hired to lead. I was hired to execute. But in organization after organization, I kept finding myself doing something nobody had asked for: holding the structure together while everyone else tried to figure out why things kept breaking.
Alison Taylor — Los Angeles & Europe
You've probably been that person too. The one who could see the problem clearly, fix it quietly, and never quite get credit for either.
That pattern repeated itself enough times that I stopped seeing it as a coincidence and started seeing it as a diagnostic. The people weren't the problem. The architecture was. And nobody was looking at the architecture.
Augur is the practice I built around that thesis in 2019. The clients who find me are usually the capable ones. The load-bearing leaders who've been told they just need to delegate better, communicate more clearly, or work on their mindset.
They don't need any of that. They need someone to finally look at the structure.
The thesis
Everyone
keeps
coaching
leaders to
be better.
Nobody's fixing the system they're being asked to lead.
That's the problem I work on. Not because it's the interesting problem (though it is), but because it's the one that actually matters. The coaching industry has built an entire economy around helping leaders perform better inside broken structures. And it works, for a while. Until it doesn't.
"The role is broken. You're not. Those are two completely different problems. They need completely different solutions."
My framework, ATLAS, was built from pattern recognition across hundreds of founders and executives since 2019. It's not a methodology I read about. It's a map I drew from watching the same structural failures show up again and again, in different industries, different companies, different stages of growth.
The patterns are consistent. The solutions are specific. That's what makes this work different from coaching and from consulting.
Where I show up
The work
lives in
many
rooms.
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EIR
LA Cleantech Incubator (LACI) Entrepreneur in Residence working with early-stage founders in the clean energy and climate space
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Faculty
MBA Faculty two universities Teaching entrepreneurship, business design, and leadership architecture at the graduate level
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Mentor
Techstars Supporting founders across Techstars programs on leadership, structure, and growth
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Speaker
Tory Burch Foundation Speaking on leadership, AI and critical thinking, and the structural dimensions of building a business
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Founder
Augur est. 2019 Leadership Architecture practice built around one thesis: most leadership strain is architectural, not personal
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Based
Los Angeles & Europe Working with clients across the US and internationally
In their words
I told you I wanted to burn it down. My business. Everyone else in my life had cautioned me not to. You were the first person to say "what are we going to use? how are we going to do it?" That was incredibly freeing.
Claire Beaumont Founder, Foreverywear
Ready to
work
together?
I work with founders and senior leaders at every stage from early companies figuring out how to build the right structure from the start, to established leaders who've hit a wall they can't explain.
If something here resonated, the next step is a conversation. No pitch. No pressure. Just clarity on whether this is the right fit.