Ireland's #1 dedicated Allyship Advisor
What is The Allyship Academy
The Allyship Academy was established to provide clear, practical guidance on what allyship is, why it matters, and how to put allyship into action in workplaces and communities.
The Academy defines allyship as the active practice of supporting people from groups that are treated unfairly or marginalised, particularly when you are not a member of that group yourself. Central to this is the conscious use of power, position, and privilege to uplift others.
Founded by Mark Fenton & Patricia Byron, this pioneering Irish initiative delivers transformative workshops, coaching, and allyship challenges designed to cultivate authentic inclusion and belonging. The Academy further strengthens organisational culture and day-to-day practice through strategic and tactical support on policies and procedures that drive an authentic environment of allyship.
Drawing on decades of expertise in leadership development, executive coaching, and inclusion, the Academy helps organisations, their teams and colleagues to move beyond performative gestures towards meaningful, actionable behaviours.
Through practical strategies and reflective learning, leaders are equipped to:
Operating across Ireland and internationally, the Academy works through:
Its commitment to allyship extends beyond learning and into measurable, impactful action.
In parallel, the Academy is active in its support of grassroots initiatives, demonstrating how allyship can drive tangible equity outcomes.
By prioritising allyship across human and societal elements such as gender, age, neurodiversity, disability, ethnicity and LGBTQ+ inclusion, the Academy champions the power of small and medium sized enterprise (SME)-led movements that drive cultural change, enabling Irish organisations to create equitable spaces where diverse talent can thrive.
Ultimately, the Allyship Academy exists to be the ally you wish you had.
SERVICES AT A GLANCE
Inclusion, Diversity, Cultural Intelligence and Allyship
The Allyship Academy provides practical, evidence-based allyship development through:
PARTNER SERVICES
Access to grow wider leadership competencies
If what you’re looking for isn’t listed here, we’d be happy to meet to have a chat.
The Allyship Academy brings together the combined expertise of seasoned leadership, inclusion, and executive coaching specialists, allowing us to design bespoke solutions which respond to your unique context, challenges, and ambitions.
We help organisations embed measurable allyship into leadership, systems, and culture to drive engagement, retention, and high performance.
What we offer for your investment:
1. Inclusive Leadership & Allyship Benchmark Review
Move from intention to measurable culture change
2. From Values to Accountability: Allyship Framework Design
Embedding inclusion into how your organisation actually works
3. Everyday Allyship: Practical Actions for Real Impact
Inspiring awareness, sparking accountability, and catalysing change
4. Allyship in Action: Skills for Inclusive Teams
Moving from awareness to confident action
OUR PRICING PROMISE
Tailored solutions at competitive prices with no hidden extras
The Allyship Academy precisely tailors each assignment to ensure the solution provided aligns specifically to client needs and strategy. We operate across all sectors and industries, both on the island of Ireland and abroad.
Whilst pricing per deliverable is agreed in advance of each project (and more complex situations require a separate price line), the following price ranges are indicative of some of our most sought-after solutions.
Allyship in Action: Skills Development Workshops
A variety of specific offerings are available that offer skills development opportunities for leaders and their teams. They range from short workshops to full-day experiential programmes for teams to intensive workshops for senior leadership and Board level.
Whether virtual or face to face, The Allyship Academy offers learning materials in the form of relevant videos, articles and slide content.
If you’d like to record any of the virtual sessions (webinars or workshops) for future use or wider sharing within your organisation, this can absolutely be arranged. For sessions that will be recorded and made available beyond the live audience, an additional % will be added to the investment to reflect extended usage and distribution rights.
Culture and Inclusion Diagnostic Survey
In-depth, anonymous, employee survey that captures key cultural and inclusion data, lived experience and ideas and insights for improvement. Managed on a professional platform and reported on in text and graphical form, this tool is an excellent indicator of the cultural and inclusive health of a team or an organisation and is foundational to a deeper leadership and allyship review.
The survey can be designed and delivered in multiple languages.
Each additional language used is an additional €500
Culture and Inclusion Workshops
Experiential sessions focused on allyship in action, inclusive leadership, and behaviour change. These learning solutions are available as bite-sized webinars (that can include a brief keynote address and a panel Q&A session), 2hr virtual workshops and/or half-day and full-day immersive face-to-face sessions. Whether virtual or face to face, The Allyship Academy offers learning materials in the form of relevant videos, articles and slide content.
Where the face-to-face workshops are to be delivered outside a 50-mile radius of Dublin city and/or overseas, additional travel time and expenses will be agreed between the parties.
For all other project-based work (for example, gap analysis, risk assessment, policy & process review etc.), the pricing is determined by the project scope and agreed deliverables.
Whether you’re navigating cultural change, developing inclusive leadership capability, or addressing complex people issues, we work collaboratively to create practical, high-impact interventions that deliver meaningful and lasting change.
CONTACT US
Patricia Byron +353 87 250 1063