“Alis is one of fewer than a dozen certified and highly reliable GLP scorers globally, and is currently engaged in working as leadership education expert across multiple industries and sectors. Her PhD dissertation studying a flagship Executive Leadership Program in Australia and NZ is quite simply the most sophisticated and comprehensive study in the world at present — in theoretical, methodological, and practical terms — about how to support ‘vertical’ leadership development and organisational transformation.”

WILLIAM TORBERT, Professor Emeritus at Boston College

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“Alis is utilising her rare depth of understanding of constructive developmental theory to open up the scope of this work in the fields of leadership and organisational transformation. And, since she is able to draw on an international consulting practice, she is strongly placed to pursue research into how commercial organisations, not-for profits and other bodies can create the conditions for growth - growth defined as a capacity to make generative decisions in a world in which the natural planet is under threat and our economic, political, social interdependencies ever clearer. This will be a significant, and probably life-time, contribution to the field of adult development theory and leadership development.”

ELAINE HERDMAN BARKER, Co-founder and President Global Leadership Associates

“Alis' work has brought clarity to how we support leaders in developing their inner capacities to exercise more wisdom. Her work is generating rare and valuable evidence-based approaches to constructing leadership education programs with measurable impacts in accelerating psychological maturity. We need more peer-reviewed contributions such as hers in this field - without which practitioners would be left to continue guesswork.”

MIKE VIEROW, GM Transformation at Virgin Australia; formerly Dean of McKinsey Academy Australia & NZ.

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“Although, we started our collaboration mainly for developing leadership skills within others in our organization, I can personally vouch that the change started also with myself, after graduating a 6 month-long Transformational Coaching Program created by Alis and certified by the International Coaching Federation.

Alis is one of the most innovative persons I know. Her coaching program impacted not only the lives of alumni, but extended the change into the companies for which they worked and into society.

Coaching was one of the main pillars driving our cultural transformation change. We invested in a core team of coaches who experienced their own transformational journey and continued to give back to our organisation. After 3 years, the seeds that we grew with Alis' help and guidance flourished into a a beautiful community, which has measurable results every year. The level of engagement of the whole organisation increased YoY and more people get involved in our mission of cultural change.

It is only with Alis' optimism and growth mindset that we understood and accepted that the change cannot happen via external sources, it is within each of us and we can make the difference ourselves, together, in our own organisation.”

ALEXANDRA BUZOIANU, HR Leader, IBM Consulting CEE CICs

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“Alis is highly perceptive and inquisitive and has the knack of asking the right question at the right time to get people to extend their thinking without feeling unsafe. In this way, building leadership skills. Her cross-cultural experiences also help the richness of the challenges she gives and the insights she returns.

Alis’ research into whether wisdom can be taught will help shape the future of how we think about developing leaders and therefore the entire education sector as it relates to leadership development. While there are many people in Australia who teach or coach leadership, I place Alis in the outstanding category of this because of her insatiable curiosity for unlocking potential, her ability to ask compelling questions and her approach to research which is both insightful and pragmatic in helping leaders thrive in an uncertain world.”

GENEVIEVE HAWKINS, General Manager, Transformation & Supply Chain Coles Liquor Group, Australia

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“I personally have grown through my work with Alis and I know my team has benefitted enormously from working with her as well. She is passionate, well evidenced and her extensive experience working with leaders in global settings means I have had access to a professional of the calibre that I have never seen before.“

ZOE WILSON, Head of Department, Junior Secondary - Kedron SHS, Brisbane