Alice Olins, Speaker | Journalist & Founder Of Step Up Club

Alice Olins

Speaker, Careers Expert, Journalist And Founder of The Step Up Club

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London

Teach your team to harness personal agency, optimism, and self-leadership for career success and stress management with Alice Olins, speaker, careers expert, journalist and Step Up Club Founder.

Alice Olins | Speaker Biography

Founder of Step Up Club, career development expert, podcaster

Best-selling author of "Step Up: Confidence, Success And Your Stellar Career"

Experienced journalist at The Times, Marie Claire, Red magazine

Alice Olins is the founder of Step Up Club, a podcaster, a career development expert, and a columnist. She is also the author of the best-selling careers manual Step Up: Confidence, Success And Your Stellar Career In 10 Minutes A Day. With a focus on careers, Alice brings an experienced perspective to professional development through education, coaching, and keynote speeches.

Having worked with a wide range of organizations, including HSBC, British Telecom (BT), Publicis, and Ambassador Theatre Group, she is a great choice to help empower the people in your team and unlock career confidence. Alice is also a specialist senior leadership team interviewer, assisting companies to develop a culture of open communication.

Alice's online work community, Step Up Club, helps individuals balance career goals with their personal lives and is founded upon her courage and continuous learning values. Before starting Step Up Club, Alice held senior journalist positions at The Times newspaper, Marie Claire, and Red magazine, giving her a real-world perspective on various career challenges.

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Featured Sessions

The Attitude Advantage

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.

The Power Of Allyship

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.

Breaking Barriers: Recognising And Mitigating Unconscious Bias

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.

Leading With Impact

In a transformative workshop led by the speaker, attendees will delve into the essence of leadership, challenging traditional notions and embracing a progressive new vision. The workshop emphasizes that leadership transcends hierarchical boundaries, highlighting the importance of positive influence, motivation, and the cultivation of a culture characterized by trust, innovation, and resilience. Through this redefined perspective, the speaker will guide participants in recognizing the potential for leadership at every level within an organization. The ultimate goal is to foster an environment where a respectful, adaptable, and engaged workforce thrives, contributing to a positive organizational culture, increased retention, and enhanced profitability. Attendees will leave with a comprehensive understanding of how to nurture leadership talent across all levels, ensuring their organizations are well-equipped for both today's and tomorrow's challenges.

Playing Bigger At All Levels

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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Session Feedback

"I arrive at my coaching sessions in a tangle of thoughts. I present them to Alice, we talk, we explore and I leave with clarity and a plan to move me forward. Alice is my anti-gremlin." — Jennie, Head of People, Trustpilot

"As a senior leader, I've had a number of coaches. Alice, is a cut above. Her ability to question effectively, listen deeply, challenge where necessary, consolidate and provide perspectives and insights allows me to find my own path. She drives me to think broader, to understand greater context. Alice is best known for coaching women, for me, she brings a unique perspective which differentiates me as a male leader." — Simon, SVP, Salesforce

"The Step Up Evolve program gave me the skills to create endless opportunities for myself and my organisation." — Jessica, CCO, HSBC