Alice Olins
Accelerate career progression and build leadership confidence with Alice Olins, speaker and career development expert. Alice works with organisations to enhance professional growth and leadership, navigate workplace bias, and develop psychological safety, delivering proven results for HSBC, BT, and Publicis.
London, United Kingdom
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Alice is the Global Head of Learning and Experience at AllBright, where she leads the design and delivery of female-focused learning programmes that support women at different stages of their careers. Alongside this, she is the founder and coach at Step Up Club, a membership community and professional development business offering training, workshops, and one-to-one coaching for women.
Alice is also the author of the bestselling careers manual Step Up: Confidence, Success And Your Stellar Career In 10 Minutes A Day. Her journalism background includes senior roles at major publications including Marie Claire, Red Magazine, and a decade as Senior Fashion Writer at The Times.
Alice's has worked with organisations including HSBC, BT, Publicis, and Ambassador Theatre Group, creating training that moves beyond theory to produce measurable shifts in behaviour. Her methods focus on building psychological safety, which allows participants to tackle difficult conversations about bias, boundaries, and leadership without defensiveness.
Attendees leave Alice's workshops with specific tools for public speaking, risk-taking, and managing the intersection of career ambition with personal responsibilities. Her sessions use real-time data collection to tailor content to the room, ensuring that participants gain frameworks they can apply immediately.
Book Alice to bring insight-led, practical learning on careers and leadership to your organisation.
Topics, Sessions And Talks
75% of work success is determined by how you work, not what you know. Built on 3 clear pillars: Optimism, Self-Leadership and Social Support, the Attitude Advantage inspires employees to sit forward in their careers, self-advocate and push for progress. Alice Olins will help you empower staff members who are able to self-create new opportunities and positively impact culture and productivity, for individual and organisational success.
This session with Alice Olins helps HR and wider teams rethink how they identify, develop, and mobilise talent in a fast-changing workplace. Alice cuts through AI hype, generational myths, and outdated hiring logic to focus on future capability, adaptability, and potential. Designed as a sharp, participative two-way dialogue, she equips leaders to make more forward-thinking choices when it comes their talent strategy, from employment through to lattice-move decisions.
A more powerfully inclusive workforce requires those who can and have, to flex and share their privilege. Allyship is a behaviour that can show up in many guises and for many benefits. Becoming an ally requires you to challenge the stereotypes that you hold, recognise and call out unconscious bias, develop empathetic listening skills and be able to catch micro transgressions in real time. Alice Olins will help you build a culture that supports equal career growth to build fairer, more collaborative organisations that do better across every success metric.
The effects of unconscious bias are wide and dangerous: inequity, decreased morale, legal disputes, ineffective dynamics, impaired decision making, stifled innovation and higher turnover rates are a short selection. This interactive workshop with Alice Olins explores the nature of biases, their impact and strategies for mitigating their effect through real-world scenarios, discussions and reflective exercises. Workshop outcomes: the development of lasting awareness and the tools to recognise and address unconscious bias and its effects.
In a transformative workshop, Alice Olins will guide attendees through a redefined understanding of leadership that challenges traditional views. She emphasises that leadership goes beyond hierarchy, focusing on positive influence, motivation, and fostering a culture of trust, innovation, and resilience. Participants will learn how to recognise and nurture leadership potential at every organisational level. By the end of the workshop, attendees will understand how to cultivate a respectful and engaged workforce, ultimately enhancing organisational culture and profitability.
Often what holds back individuals, and therefore teams and organisations as a whole, is self doubt. This invisible but pervasive weakness is a barrier to growth on many fronts. Careful training that focuses on deeper belief systems, internal scripts and schemas and which explores the impact of identity evolutions, strengthens this deficiency. Alice Olins will help you create confident, resilient team members who can take greater risks and exist beyond the comfort zones for greater innovation and self-assurance company-wide: as well as a happier, more able staff.
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