About Allize

Allize is a certified minority and woman owned business enterprise (M/WBE) that focuses on making work life better. 

Founded in 2023 by Kelly Fumiko Weiss, Allize brings Kelly’s 20 years of experience across public sector, non-profit, religious, and private sector workplaces to the forefront, creating and implementing the systems, processes, and trainings employees need. Our vision is for everyone to have the tools - technological, emotional, and solutional - needed to succeed in the workplace.

Allize offers a portfolio of evaluation, training, and implementation services that can be easily scaled to the size, type, and needs of an organization and/or project.

A Sample of our Recent Clients

​​ Our Core Competencies

Project Management
Change Management
Team Management
Strategic Use of Technology
Internal Communications
Collaboration Tools

What Sets Us Apart

​Allize takes a people-first approach to work. At Allize, we believe that all stakeholders on projects – from the project teams to the clients to the consumers – deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. The phrase “human-centered design” is quite common in development, but we take that a step further and take a human-centered approach to everything we do.

Our guiding questions are: What changes will make things easier at work?  Do people have what they need to succeed? -and- What will make people happier?

By focusing on people first we:
  • improve adoption rates on project work
  • make it easier to incorporate project work into day-to-day operations
  • and use project work as a catalyst to improve team morale. 

Kelly Fumiko Weiss

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Kelly Fumiko Weiss graduated magna cum laude from Boston University and has a Masters in Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice (formerly known as the School of Social Service Administration). She has a certification in Nonprofit Management from Northwestern University’s Executive Scholars Program and is also PMP certified by PMI. 

Kelly has worked for the City of Chicago, ICS Hong Kong (international school), Chicago Public Schools, the Archdiocese of Chicago, and currently serves on the Board of the nonprofit The Friendship Center. Kelly has also worked at the technology consulting firms Slalom and Reply. Kelly’s focus has been on managing IT and communications teams, and providing people with the core services they need to navigate the world we live in. Whether that be through distribution of social services, access to information and technology, or equipping teams with training, communication, and management skills, Kelly has committed her career to making people’s lives better. 

Kelly lives in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Chicago with her husband, daughter, and dog, Scotch. In her free time, Kelly loves all forms of storytelling - TV, movies, books, music - and is a published author. Her two novels, The Cube and The Stories We Choose Not To Tell are both available on Amazon and wherever books are sold.