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Emotional fitness & mind training: Beyond overthinking
Sometimes it can feel like we’re on a pendulum swinging from boredom and lethargy to stress and overstimulation. In this workshop we explore conscious living, mindfulness and meditation. Ali Walker will inspire your people to be more resilient and happier.
Read lessFacilitation
Ali facilitates interactive break out sessions and can guide teams through issues in their culture.
Read lessHarness the power of human connection
What drives our choices and our behaviour? Why do we click with some people and clash with others? How do we click instantly with someone? This topic can be a keynote or a workshop. Prior to the workshop, participants complete Ali Walker’s original personality assessment, which identifies an individual’s connection type and leadership type. and motivational style. During the workshop, we explore what these types mean for you, your relationships and your team.
Read lessHigh performing teams
This workshop is focused on building and leading high-performance teams. High performing individuals don’t automatically form high performing teams. Teams need to be engineered and led through the stages of connection. This keynote gives you the keys to navigating through belonging and tension to high performance.
Read lessHow to read and lead the room
What do human-centred leaders do differently? They read and lead the room. They go all-in. In this talk, Ali Walker introduces the human connection model that reveals our unique connection style and the roles we play in groups.
Read lessLeading through uncertainty
This talk shares the insights into how COVID-19 has affected our interpersonal connections and offers strategies to sustain energy in this constantly changing environment. Ali Walker shares strategies to effectively build rapport and collaborate as a team in an environment where teams are working in a hybrid model.
Read lessDr Ali Walker
Unlocking Human Potential Through Leadership, Connection, and Culture
As one of 5 children, Dr Ali Walker's interest in group dynamics started early around a very lively dinner table. She started her career as a criminal lawyer with the NSW Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, and changed course to research human behaviour and group dynamics. She was awarded a PhD from the Australian National University in 2013. Since then, Ali has designed personality assessments to identify how we connect with others (in relationships, teams and as leaders) and our motivational drivers (intrinsic and extrinsic motivators). Her company is called Ality.
Ali is now a ‘human connection scientist’ specialising in leadership, connection and culture. She has designed executive leadership programs for Woodside, JCA, Westpac and Rabobank, among others.
Ali wrote her first book, Get Conscious: How to Stop Overthinking & Come Alive, while her first son was asleep as a baby in the next room. It started as a journal (the book she wanted to write instead of her PhD). She then released her second book, Collective Consciousness & Gender, in August 2018.
Ali is an Adjunct Faculty at the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Her work focuses on the question: How do we ignite human potential & flourishing? The answers include: human connection, leadership, consciousness, self-awareness, mindfulness, empathy, positive cultures and social connectedness.
Ali is also a regular contributor to the media, including a variety of radio programs, including 2GB 873am and ABC Radio National. She has had two weekly radio segments, 2GB 873am on Saturday mornings; and ‘Conscious Living’ on Radio 2UE Talking Lifestyle 954am.
Ali's a keynote speaker for companies and organisations, focusing on the topics of leadership and connection.
In addition to her PhD, Ali has a Masters degree in International Law & International Relations and two undergraduate degrees in Law (with Merit) and Arts (Politics & International Relations) from the University of NSW. She also has a Graduate Diploma in Integral Coaching.