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Allegra Jordan

Executive in Residence in the Engineering Graduate and Professional Programs
Engineering Graduate and Professional Programs
Box 90968, Durham, NC 27708-0968
Pratt School of Engineering, 305 Teer Engineering Building Box 90271, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


Allegra Jordan helps develop superior leaders and teams so that companies and society can flourish. Her generative outlook and generous approach have led to hundreds of millions of dollars of new value, improved executive capacity, new technologies, healthier global communities, and award-winning creative content. 

Currently she teaches, coaches, writes and serves as the secretary for the IEEE's Global AI Systems Flourishing Initiative. The initiative works with more than 200 experts, professionals and academics across the globe to create establish flourishing as a practical, systems-level framework for responsible technology. 

Allegra has served clients in 17 countries and on five continents. She led or managed start-ups in mainstream media, suborbital spaceflight commercialization, electronic health records, intellectual property (patent) spaces, and many others.  Her consulting clients include US Joint Special Operations Command, US Department of Treasury, Justice, Personnel Management; the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, the Archbishop of Sudan, FHI 360, Deltek, AOL, and ARC Systems (financial systems technology) among others.  She handled all crisis communications for Bill Powers' Enron Investigation. 

Maria Shriver designated Allegra an “Architect of Change” (2014-2016).  Allegra is the author of six books and 12 Harvard Business School cases. She was named a top executive under 40 in both Austin, Texas, and Birmingham, Alabama, and a “Rising Star” by Time Magazine.  She was named the US Debater of the Year as a college debater and is the subject of a best-selling Harvard Business School case.

From Georgetown University, she holds a certificate in leadership coaching (2016). She graduated with second year honors from Harvard Business School (1995) and with a BA from Samford University (1991, summa cum laude). 

Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations


Executive in Residence in the Engineering Graduate and Professional Programs · 2022 - Present Engineering Graduate and Professional Programs, Pratt School of Engineering

Recent News Items


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Recent Scholarly Works


String the Bow: A Variation on Seamus Heaney's The Cure at Troy

Book · July 27, 2026 THREE POLITICALLY HOMELESS EXILES flee to sanctuary after Athens' democracy falls. One is in shock. One thirsts for vengeance. The youngest brings untested courage. What future can they hope to mother-forth? String the Bow, a play to be read aloud with ... Link to item Cite

The Light of Borrowed Splendor A Poem in Seven Prayers

Book · July 20, 2021 The poems wrestle with the interplay between history and harm, love and loss, hope and despair, and ultimately lead the reader back to the mountain on which the book began, where we can hear The love that never stops echoing Across the ... ... Cite

A Splendorful Path A Five-Hundred-Year Peace Map in Six Words

Book · September 20, 2020 " Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called it a vision of the future through the lens of "the dissenter's hope." How do we get there? Are we crazy to think we can reach it? This short book plots the path in six words: Why bother? Lament. Hope. ... Cite
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Education


Harvard University · 1995 M.B.A.
Samford University · 1991 B.A.