Alicia Navarro's biography
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- Tech entrepreneur focused on productivity and mental health
- Founder of Skimlinks and FLOWN platforms
- Executive coach specialising in innovation culture
Alicia Navarro is a technology entrepreneur and executive coach known for building and scaling global digital businesses and for her work on focus, culture, and the future of work.
Born in Sydney to Spanish and Cuban parents and now based in London, Alicia has built an international career across Australia, Europe, and the United States. She founded Skimlinks in 2007, growing it from a living room startup into a leading content to commerce platform used by thousands of publishers worldwide, including Buzzfeed, Conde Nast, Hearst, and AOL. Spending more than a decade as CEO, she led the company to $50 million in annual revenues before stepping down ahead of its acquisition by Connexity in 2020.
After Skimlinks, Alicia became an Entrepreneur in Residence at firstminute and Breega Capital, qualified as an executive coach, and began advising founders and leadership teams on growth, resilience, and culture. She is now the founder and CEO of FLOWN, a platform designed to help knowledge workers achieve deep focus, accountability, and wellbeing in remote to hybrid environments, with particular impact for people with ADHD.
Alicia helps organisations build cultures that support innovation and sustained performance, drawing on her experience creating the distinctive team culture at Skimlinks and FLOWN. She shares practical insights into building and evolving products and businesses, grounded in real examples from raising venture funding during the 2008 financial crisis and successfully pivoting her company’s business model to reach scale and profitability.
Audiences gain concrete strategies for creating startup-style cultures within established organisations, techniques for maintaining focus in distracting work environments, and frameworks for innovative thinking when facing uncertainty. Alicia delivers these insights with vulnerability and authenticity, sharing both setbacks and successes from her entrepreneurial journey.
Book Alicia to bring entrepreneurial insight and focus-driven leadership to your next event.
Alicia's showreel and videos
Topics, sessions and talks
Entrepreneurial Thinking And Scaling A Business
Alicia Navarro explores what it takes to scale a startup, including the mindset and practical decisions required along the way. She shares lessons learned from building and exiting a global tech business, including the mistakes many founders make. Her honest reflections provide a grounded perspective on growth, leadership and resilience under pressure, making this session especially relevant for entrepreneurs and early-stage teams.
Driving Product Innovation Through Customer Insight
Alicia Navarro examines how product ideas move from concept to market by blending gut instinct with customer data. Drawing on her experience leading product strategy in tech startups, she shares techniques for understanding user behaviour, testing assumptions and iterating ideas at pace. The session offers a sharp look at innovation that balances bold thinking with grounded decision-making.
Women In Tech And Feminine Leadership
Alicia Navarro speaks candidly about her experience as a woman in tech and leadership. Framing her journey with humour and honesty, she challenges the traditional narratives around gender and power, while offering a fresh perspective on the value of feminine leadership traits. Her reflections draw on unexpected sources of inspiration and make a compelling case for new models of success in tech and beyond.
How To Make Remote Work Work
Alicia Navarro explores why so many organisations struggle to make remote and hybrid working truly effective, despite its growing prevalence. Drawing on her experience building global teams and leading FLOWN, she looks at the cultural habits, leadership behaviours, and operating rhythms that allow distributed teams to stay aligned, motivated, and productive. Alicia’s mix of commercial realism and human insight shows how organisations can create remote working environments where people and performance develop together.
The Neuroscience Of Focus: Body Doubling
Alicia Navarro introduces body doubling as a powerful neuroscience-based approach to improving focus, especially for neurodiverse and highly distracted employees. Drawing on her work at Flown and her background in technology and coaching, she explains how working alongside others, even virtually, changes attention, motivation, and emotional regulation. Alicia combines research with lived experience to show how organisations can support productivity, wellbeing, and inclusion in modern knowledge work.
Why we recommend booking Alicia
Alicia Navarro brings unmatched insight into building high-performing global teams and creating cultures where remote work succeeds. She shares practical strategies for improving focus, supporting neurodiverse employees, and fostering collaboration in distributed teams. Book Alicia to create a work environment where people can concentrate, engage, and deliver their best results.
