Eleanor Allen
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Operating Officer
Senior Vice President
Denver
English, Dutch - Nederlands, Portuguese - Português, Spanish – Español
Eleanor Allen
As an executive coach, advisor, and business consultant, Eleanor leverages her experience as a CEO of for profit and nonprofit organizations to boost strong, resilient, and self-aware executives and teams grounded in wellbeing. She helps leaders bring their full selves to the C-Suite and the boardroom with a confident and powerful voice so that they can drive impactful change.
Eleanor has donned various hats in her career - CEO, board member, technical expert, management consultant, and professional engineer. Her experience demonstrates a strong track record in building: high performing teams, global growth strategies, transformational business plans, and organizational cultures grounded in purpose.
Career Highlights
- 10+ years as the top executive
- Global leadership roles (employee-owned and publicly traded companies; nonprofits)
- Technical expert: environmental, social, and governance (ESG); climate, water/wastewater/WASH
- Infrastructure program management ($400M to $2B)
- Regional & global ops with P/L responsibility $20M and $450M
Business Expertise
- Global strategy
- Operational excellence & org transformation
- Financial planning & turnarounds
- Utility management
- M&A (pre and post)
- Wellbeing at work; org culture
- Justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) programs