David Allison

David Allison is the world’s leading authority on human values, a 2X bestselling author, and the founder of the groundbreaking Valegraphics Project—the first global inventory of core human values. By transforming values into measurable data, Allison has created an entirely new kind of human-centric insights that are as practical as they are profound, revolutionizing how organizations understand, engage, inspire, and influence people.

Allison’s insights, drawn from nearly one million surveys conducted in 152 languages, help global giants like Google, PayPal, lululemon, Amazon, and the United Nations Foundation connect with people on a deeply human level. His groundbreaking research is included in college textbooks and discussed in classrooms around the world. His most recent bestselling book,The Death of Demographics, has been hailed by critics as “convincing, insightful, and revolutionary," and his keynotes have been called “riveting,” “fascinating,” and “life-changing.”

Allison and his husband Chris (a school superintendent) have been together for 30 years and split their time between Vancouver and the tiny seaside town of Sechelt, where Allison has recently become alarmingly obsessed with sourdough and gardening. They don’t have a dog, but regularly borrow them, sort of like Airbnb for Labradoodles and Huskies.