Alison Gilbert is the Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Monmouth University—where she is leading the vision and development of programs that catalyze, support and expand the Monmouth County, NJ innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem.Alison is also the founder of two companies; The Big Whisper—an organization that designs development experiences and tools that help emerging leaders turn their vision into impact; and Project AG—where, as founder and lead business strategist, she's consulted, coached, advised and workshopped with hundreds of early-stage women entrepreneurs across industries to help them launch and grow their businesses.Prior to this work, Alison was hire four and COO of food media company Tasting Table where she helped grow it into a forty person, multi-million dollar business reaching a readership of millions. After that she went on to help scale media company Well+Good from their founding two person team to their first fifteen people and million dollars in revenue. And prior to all this, Alison was a pastry chef—trained at The French Culinary Institute (now The International Culinary Center)—she makes a great salted chocolate chip cookie (if she does say so herself).