How To Grow An International Company With Jane App Co-Founder Allison Taylor: Episode 153

We understand if you think Alison is actually “Jane.” She’s so central to the company, it’s an easy leap to make. Creating a better clinic management program was her idea, after all. And it works so well because of her clinic background and the hugeness of the left side of her brain. Here’s a teeny snapshot of Alison and a glimpse into why Jane is destined for greatness.

Alison is the daughter of two physios and the operator of three clinics.

“l learned the alphabet by filing at my parent’s clinics — that’s a true story.” Eventually, she grew her in-clinic knowledge by running three different integrated health care clinics in North Vancouver, Canada — in charge of everything from training staff to helping design and build a new facility from scratch. It’s this one right here:

She’s an admin person to her very core.

Ever met a kid that that does self-assigned exercises in a store-bought workbook because of the tremendous satisfaction they get from from putting correct answers in perfectly aligned columns? That’s a young Ali. Years later, little has changed. She loves organizing. Improving systems. Ticking boxes off tidily written to-do lists. That same excitement gets focused on Jane every day.

Running integrated clinics makes Ali better. And Ali makes Jane better.

Whenever a practitioner from a different discipline would apply for a job at one of Ali’s clinics, she’d grill them. What was their day like? Their treatment process? What were their admin needs and how did they differ from other disciplines? All that learning gave Ali — and now Jane — a huge advantage to tailor a clinic management program that works as well for massage therapists and osteopaths as it does for aestheticians and counsellors.