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For when common sense is not common

Good leadership starts with reading the room correctly.

HumanSense is Aly McKinster's consulting practice for leaders, boards, and teams who want the real diagnosis before the workshop — built on behavioral science and two decades spent watching how people actually behave under pressure.

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01Organizational Development 02Board & Leadership Team Development 03Relationship Development 04Individual Development 05Public Speaking & Keynote

Why "HumanSense"

"Frameworks tell you what a healthy team looks like. They don't tell you why yours went quiet in the last meeting. That takes actually sensing the room — and knowing what to do once you have."

— ALY MCKINSTER, FOUNDER

About

The person behind HumanSense

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Aly McKinster

Founder, HumanSense

Based in
Chicago, IL
Background
Organizational performance & culture transformation
Also known for
Sales & business development leadership

Aly spent her most recent corporate chapter as Senior Manager of Organizational Performance at Wipfli LLP, leading culture transformation, leadership alignment, and workforce strategy work for clients ranging from regional Community Action agencies to youth and children's nonprofits. She built a national speaking platform inside the firm and started Wipfli's first profitable Business Resource Group from scratch.

Before any of that, she was working — on stages, on sales floors, behind bars, and in ballrooms.

Aly started working at five years old as a musician and performer. Long before her corporate career, she put in years in hospitality: dishwasher, server, bartender, host, manager, event planner. Then came a career in sales and business development — Predictive Index, Caxy Consulting, Aunalytics, Brafton — building relationships across nonprofit, finance, manufacturing, construction, and national association sectors from the Midwest to Denver to DC.

That path is exactly why HumanSense exists. Reading a room isn't a slide in a deck — it's a skill built behind a bar, on a stage, and in a hundred sales calls, then sharpened with the behavioral science (Predictive Index, Human Synergistics) to back it up. Aly describes herself as funny, scrappy, creative, a self-described master problem solver — and proudly untraditional about how she got here.

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Where the work actually happens

Five ways HumanSense works with organizations, teams, and the people inside them — pick the entry point that matches where things stand today.

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Organizational Development Board & Leadership Team Development Individual Development Relationship Development Public Speaking & Keynote
01 · Organizational Development 02 · Board & Leadership Team Development 03 · Relationship Development 04 · Individual Development 05 · Public Speaking & Keynote

01

Organizational Development

  • Brand conceptualization
  • Brand, marketing, and sales strategy

02

Board & Leadership Team Development

  • Leadership retreats
  • Mission, vision & values work
  • 5 Functional Team Skills workshops
  • Generational divide workshops
  • Team alignment & cohesion workshops

03

Relationship Development

  • Conflict resolution

04

Individual Development

  • Personal branding
  • Networking coaching
  • Confidence coaching
  • Burnout coaching
  • Shadow side coaching

05

Public Speaking & Keynote

Talks and keynotes built around the topics leaders actually ask about:

Leadership Burnout Mission alignment Team dysfunction Communication Mental health Team psychology Management

Get in touch

Let's talk about what's really going on.

Based in Chicago, working with boards, leadership teams, and individuals wherever they are. Tell me a bit about what's going on and I'll follow up personally.

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hello@humansenseco.com
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