Ali Duvall, Managing Director
Ali Duvall has worked for 25 years in the field of collaborative, landscape-scale conservation in the western U.S. with federal agencies, state fish and wildlife agencies, non-governmental organizations, private landowners, Tribes, corporate partners, foundations, and universities to implement science-based, partnership-driven wildlife conservation that results in on-the-ground actions. With demonstrated experience in the complicated and multi-faceted nexus between conservation science, on-the-ground action, policy, and community benefits, she’s worked with >1000 partners to achieve strategic conservation across biomes.
In 2022, Duvall launched Eco-Alliances for Change, LLC, whose mission is to increase the adaptive capacity and resilience of people and organizations to achieve meaningful ecological, social, and political change to conserve the natural world and human communities. In this role, she connects the technical work that she’s done for more than two decades with leadership development and capacity-building practices that are essential to helping people thrive and survive in today’s workforce. In her role as Managing Director, she and her team contract with conservation organizations and agencies to build conservation leadership development programs and courses; facilitate strategic processes where adaptation and new capacities are needed to affect change; and provide coaching services to help people create awareness, lightbulb moments, and opportunities for transformation.
Duvall’s academic background includes an M.S. in Environmental Studies at the University of Montana where she played a key role in creating a community forest in the Blackfoot Watershed; engaged in terrestrial/aquatic systems “ridge to ridge” ecology; and explored the social implications of conservation delivery (why and how to engage people in watershed conservation through community-driven priorities); along with a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University. Within the past 10 years, Duvall graduated from the National Conservation Leadership Institute and has earned certificates in Advanced Leadership Development, Case-In-Point, When Everyone Leads, and the Leadership Coach Intensive from Kansas Leadership Center.
Duvall often points to Albert Einstein’s potent observation that: “We cannot solve our problems with the same kind of thinking we used when we created them,” and that the work of addressing complex conservation challenges requires a shift in mindsets, engagement of a broad array of perspectives to identify shared purpose, mind-heart-gut connections, and systems thinking—all to create meaningful, breakthrough change.
She lives near the sacred confluence of the Big Blackfoot and Clark Fork Rivers in western Montana. In her free time, she enjoys being with her loved ones as well as hiking, cross-country skiing, gardening, birdwatching, strength training, and dabbling with writing. Learn more here: LinkedIn.
