Values Alignment Strategist
About Adalena Oliver
Adalena Oliver is a values alignment strategist, senior executive, author, speaker, and coach who helps professionals and leaders use their core values to make clearer decisions, navigate change, lead with purpose, and build lives and legacies rooted in what matters most.
Her work is grounded in an enduring premise: we define our core values not only to make better decisions, but also so we know where to return when life pulls us away.
Experience
A Career Built Across Technology, Change, and Leadership
Adalena has more than 40 years of professional experience, including over 30 years in technology, portfolio management, organizational change, and transformation. She currently serves as Senior Director of Portfolio Change Management for a national transportation organization, leading strategy, engagement, readiness, and transformation initiatives.
The platform
Founder and Creator of Built From the Core™
Adalena is the founder and CEO of Adalena Oliver Consulting, LLC and creator of Built From the Core™, a values alignment platform helping people move beyond autopilot, reconnect with what matters most, and use their core values as a practical foundation for living, leading, deciding, and growing.
Credentials
Credentials and Recognition
BS in Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago
MS in Organizational Leadership, Dominican University
MS in Management of Information Technology, University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce
Project Management Professional, PMP
Certified Change Management Professional, CCMP
Certified Professional Coach
Training in agile delivery, digital transformation, and process improvement
Best-selling co-author
Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award recipient
Recognized speaker
Purpose
Why This Work Matters
This work does not tell people which values they should hold. It helps them define their own values, understand how those values were formed and how they are expressed, and recognize the difference between alignment and drift.
From that clarity, choices become safer, clearer, and more intentional. Decisions are made from a defined core rather than from pressure, habit, or someone else’s expectations, and there is always a place to return when life pulls you away.
