Alison Coward is the founder of Bracket, a consultancy that partners with ambitious, forward-thinking organisations to help them build high-performing collaborative team cultures. She is a strategist, workshop facilitator, coach, trainer, keynote speaker and author of A Pocket Guide to Effective Workshops. Her clients include Google, D&AD, Barclaycard, Wellcome and Channel 4. With nearly 20 years experience of working in, leading and facilitating creative teams, Alison is passionate about finding the balance between creativity, productivity and collaboration so that teams can thrive and do their best work together.

Alison's first book A Pocket Guide to Effective Workshops has sold more than 1800 copies across 38 countries in both digital and hard copy format since its publication in 2015. She has delivered keynote talks on the topics of collaboration, team culture and workshops at conferences in the UK, across Europe and in the US such as Mind The Product, Business of Software and Google's Sprint Conf. She has also delivered guest lectures at various universities including the University of the Arts London, Kingston University and Cambridge University.