Our Essence

Alston-Kline's core values are based on Micah 6:8 "...to act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with our God." We believe that people can experience a work life that is increasingly positive, which results in a more productive and cohesive team and environment.

The metaphor of the "potter and the clay" represents our service delivery to clients. To us each person (vessel) is a created being, as well as a being in continuous creation. We have witnessed, and expect, great things when people intend positive change. By applying methods of assessment, development, and guidance, we are catalysts of productive change for people. With deep respect and humility, we offer our craft to those we serve.

Although our work emphasizes positives for people, we are not naive. The metaphor of the potter and clay reinforces our responsibility for significant outcomes. We ask organizations to make people the top priority. We know what this requires, and so we work to ensure that our deliverables positively impact organizational performance and capacity.

Increasing the greater good for work that matters

The characteristic artistry, science, and compassion of God inspire our corporation's core essence. This translates appropriately in both for-profit and not-for-profit work environments with respect for each human life we encounter.

Alston-Kline's essence is about "running deep" with people and organizations. Our impact and success are based on measurable outcomes that are attuned to critical business needs. In our thinking, what we deliver must be transformational.

Building capacity for work that matters

We come alongside people who desire to be more effective, who seek to protect the value and intrinsic beauty of an intended mission, and who appreciate profitability and reserve-building as essential to good stewardship.

Our function is both diagnostic and prescriptive. We do not just report to our clients what we perceive as ineffective. We guide our clients through a change process that leads to increased capacity. We are committed to those we serve-from inception to success.

Our Business

Alston-Kline is in the business of organizational development and executive coaching. We guide people and their organizations through a transforming process , offering both hands-on support services as well as published tools, manuals, and workbooks. We devote our work to both for-profit and not-for-profit corporations, whom themselves do important work for others.

All of our consultants are experts in our core service areas. They consult not only from extensive knowledge within their subject areas, but also from in-depth leadership experience in both the for-profit and not-for-profit arenas. Each of our consultants is continuously striving to ensure both relevance and competence as part of the proffered wisdom for change.

We provide knowledgeable, competent, and transforming service deliverables within a trust-engendering, consulting process that is distinctive. Our consulting approach achieves measurable and sustainable outcomes through a deeper path of coming alongside you (both as an individual and a team), molding and refining your organization's capabilities, renewing inter-departmental and team strengths, and increasing overall competency.

Our History

Alston-Kline, with proven success since its incorporation in 1988, has offered the organizations it serves an opportunity to institute needed change, create new relationships within their own walls and their external networks, and identify new and constructive ways to do business. We have provided a process that reclaims the intended essence of the corporation served. People have been set free to work alongside each other with increasing capacity and trust.

Alston-Kline has been located near Seattle's Puget Sound since incorporation. Rhonda Kline and Cathie Cowie, who were inspired to create Alston-Kline to its lasting purpose while working at World Vision (www.worldvision.org) in the 1980s, founded the company. Their leadership and continuing commitment to serving people well and leaving behind an opportunity for a greater good is the inspiration for our Core Values:

Synergy
Alston-Kline seeks to serve as a catalyst within organizations to encourage understanding, design individual development models that support competence for a greater good, and enhance opportunities for transforming change throughout entire organizations.

Personal Development
Alston-Kline meets people at their point of need, competently assesses their skills and abilities, and guides every person in discovering their unique, authentic potential.

Authenticity
Alston-Kline strives for authenticity in its relationships in order to foster an atmosphere of honesty in its interactions and confidence in its outcomes.

Truth & Integrity
Alston-Kline believes that truth and integrity are necessary components in all that we do, courageously leading with truth, while compassionately guiding with respect and integrity.

Confidentiality
Alston-Kline conducts our client's business in complete confidentiality, always aware of the sacredness of every human being and avoiding any conflict of interest.

Due Diligence
Alston-Kline provides only the most accurate and well-researched knowledge in guiding clients to effective solutions for their organizations' needs.