Alison Abercrombie Chavira

About Alison Abercrombie Chavira

As a talent development professional, Alison specializes in creating cultures that foster learning and development. She earned her B.A. in Behavioral Science and Human Resource Management from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia before earning her M.A. in Positive Organizational Psychology and Evaluation from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. Alison’s foundation of human resources and positive psychology have led to various professional experiences in the hospitality, healthcare, and technology fields that include managing engineering teams and developing learning content, cultural assessments, cultural orientation training, and diagnostic tools. As a consultant, Alison has conducted person and task analyses, developed training modules, evaluated leadership training programs, identified key leadership competencies, created program logic models, facilitated strengths-based workshops, utilized evaluation methods, coached clients through goal setting and reflection exercises, recruited candidates, and provided recommendations to key stakeholders in order to increase organizational effectiveness and human resource procedures.Alison’s passion is talent development, because she believes individuals are the core to organizational success. She is driven by opportunities to help others develop and achieve their goals.

Experience

1. Software Engineering Manager

   MRO

   Apr 2025 — Present · Nashville, TN, US

   MRO is accelerating clinical data exchange by empowering healthcare organizations with proven, enterprise-wide solutions.As a Software Engineering Manager, Alison leads teams of highly skilled engineers on autonomous agile scrum teams. Her responsibilities include- Managing staffing strategy of scrum teams to ensure teams have the right talent with the right skills - Conducting performance reviews, goal alignment, and career planning for software engineers- Building and utilizing data-driven strategies to attract, deploy, develop, and retain talent- Promoting engineering discipline to design and problem solve to deliver business outcomes- Evangelizing best security, culture, technical, and architecture practices- Collaborating with engineers, product owners, scrum masters, architects, stakeholders, and technology leaders to deliver quality working software with speed and predictability

Education

• Arcadia University

  International Business

  2010

• Claremont Graduate University

  Master of Arts (M.A.), Co; Positive Organizational Psychology and Evaluation

  2012 — 2014

• Oglethorpe University

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Behavioral Science and Human Resource Management with an Emphasis in International Studies

  2008 — 2012

Skills

• Workshop Facilitation
• Employee Handbooks
• Positive Psychology
• Content Writing
• Data Collection
• Recruiting
• Organizational Effectiveness
• Program Evaluation
• Nonprofits
• Management
• Training Facilitation
• Copy Editing
• Organizational Behavior
• Research
• Public Speaking
• Resume Writing
• Organizational Leadership
• Workplace Assessment
• Quantitative Research
• Survey Methodology
• Microsoft Office Xp
• Social Psychology
• Servant Leadership
• Organizational Design
• Communicative Skills
• Personnel Management
• Employee Recognition
• Qualitative Research
• Research Design
• Facilitation
• Executive Coaching
• Microsoft Office
• Business Coaching
• Leadership
• Employee Engagement
• Organizational Development
• Communication
• Training
• Statistics
• Customer Service