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Alice Olins
Leadership Development
Confidence
Gender Equality
Alice Olins is a career development speaker on women's leadership and workplace bias. She is Global Head of Learning and Experience at AllBright, founder of Step Up Club, and wrote bestselling Step Up, working with HSBC, BT, and Publicis.
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Alice Olins is a journalist, learning and development leader, and founder specialising in women's careers, leadership, and professional growth across modern workplaces. 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 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alice Olins blends award-winning journalism with hands-on expertise in women’s leadership, delivering practical workshops that drive real change in workplace culture and career growth. Book Alice now to empower your team with actionable strategies for confidence, communication, and professional success.
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Alice Olins uses real-time data collection at the start of her sessions to tailor content to the specific audience in the room, delivering frameworks participants can apply immediately rather than generic theory.
Alice Olins specialises in leadership development, workplace allyship and inclusion, and attitude-driven career progression. She is the author of the bestselling careers manual Step Up: Confidence, Success And Your Stellar Career In 10 Minutes A Day and serves as Global Head of Learning and Experience at AllBright, where she leads female-focused professional development programmes.
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