Allyn has extensive experience in team development, using a highly innovative approach that makes use of group process, action learning and technology. He currently teaches courses in Leadership and Management and Effective, Critical and Creative Thinking, Team Building, and Critical Thinking at Wentworth Institute of Technology. He teaches at U-Mass, Boston a course in Dialogue and  Creative Thinking, Collaboration and Organizational Change. In addition he also conducts a variety of innovative training sessions and workshops.

Among other the education centers where Allyn has conducted training are: the American Management Association, the American Society of Training Directors, the Association of Field Service Managers, the Mercuri Institute in Sweden and the Accelerated Management Institute in England.

 In the private sector he has conducted training for such companies as Block Drug, General Foods, Avon Products, Honeywell, Digital, Stop & Shop, Johnson & Johnson, Warner Lambert, Monsanto, New England Electric, Telex, Fidelity Trust, Kodak, New England Nuclear, Burger King, FW Faxon, Becton Dickenson, Semicon, Youville Hospital, The First Years, Matritech and AT&T Wireless.

 In the public sector he has done training for the Personnel Commission of the State of Idaho, the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission, the Office of Personnel Services of the United Nations, the Boston Neighborhood Development Agency, and the Massachusetts Half-Way Houses of Boston.

 Publications: He is the author of "Freedom of Information Changes the Rules" published in the Journal of Management Consulting,” Team Communications" in the Honeywell USMG Mgr., "Suspending Judgment: How to Build Teams Through Critical and Creative Thinking" in The New England Non-Profit Quarterly Journal, and “Effective Teamwork”, in Context, an on-line publication at Wentworth, and he is co-author of Transactional Awareness, a book published by Addison-Wesley.

Allyn is a member of the Boston Organizational Development Association,the Society for Organizational Learning and the Boston Facilitator Group. He also serves on IPAC, a commission sponsored by Wentworth that brings together professional and industrial leaders in the greater Boston community who are dedicated to improving the quality of management education. In addition he serves on JACS, a state agency that helps young adults in the inner city enter the workforce and become self reliant. He is currently working on developing a workshop in Dialogue and Teamwork for Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.