Verna Allee

Verna Allee is a pioneer in value networks, intangibles, knowledge management, and new business models. She is a Fellow of the World Business Academy, advisor to the European Commission, and sits on a number of Advisory and Editorial Boards including Hazel Henderson’s Ethical Markets television series.

She began her management career in 1975 as the co-founder of a networked sign manufacturing company. She organized the new company as a value network – a radical idea at the time. Within five years, the company was handling large installations from Alaska to Florida and revenue had grown to match some of the largest companies in the industry. Determined to carry her insights into global companies, she developed value network analysis which is now included in three different standards in IT and business modeling, including the Value Delivery Modeling Language (VDML) standard for the Object Management Group.

Ms. Allee holds an M.A. in Organizational Leadership and Human Consciousness from JFK University and a B.A degree in Social Science and International Business from the University of California, Berkeley. She has been a visiting lecturer at many universities around the world and a trusted advisor to more than 100 Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies, civil society organizations, and entrepreneurial startups. Her academic articles are available at her Verna Allee website.