Our Team

Allison Seabeck

Allison has a passion for helping visionary leaders and growing organizations make greater and more positive impacts in the world.  As an executive facilitator and advisor, Allison focuses on building alignment and clarity of purpose within leadership teams and nonprofit boards, particularly during times of transition and leadership change. 

Allison believes that people are the core of successful growth and change.  With a degree in Linguistics from the College of William and Mary, she takes great pleasure in getting nerdy about the science of language and the power of communication.

Stephanie Butts

Stephanie is a big picture thinker with a proven ability to help organizations exceed their goals and achieve more than they dreamed possible. She is an instigator of strategic business growth through performance evaluation and process improvement. Stephanie focuses on asking the simplest questions to drive transformation - Why do we do it that way? And how could we do it better?

Stephanie is a CPA with a Master of Taxation, so of course she is easily enthralled with details and spreadsheets.  But don't let that fool you.  Stephanie makes her greatest impact when she is engaging with people and making processes better.

The Story of the Name

We (Stephanie and Allison) remember taking a breather from a financial spreadsheet of some sort and pondering about how we got where we were. We laughed when we thought about being little girls growing up in small towns, never imagining that we would be running a $10M global business in our mid-30s. That kind of future wasn't really something we even knew we could dream about. But we both took risks along the way to say "yes" and jump in with passion when opportunities presented themselves. We gave our best to everything we tackled and learned as much as we could as we went. We said then that we hoped we would always strive to take risks, say yes to opportunity, act with passion, hold high standards and never forget what those little girls from our little hometowns were able to accomplish.   When we formed Sidney Harris, we gave a nod to that conversation and named our company after our hometowns, Sidney Nebraska and Harrisonburg Virginia.