22. ALI WALKER

Ali specialises in leadership, teams, culture and workforce transformation. She is Adjunct Faculty at the Australian Graduate School of Management UNSW and a nationally accredited mediator. She is the founder & CEO of Ality. Where she has designed personality assessments that identify your connection type and motivational drivers in relationships, teams and leadership. Ali is the bestselling author of 3 books Click or Clash? (2023), Get Conscious: How to stop overthinking and come alive (2017) and Collective Consciousness and Gender (2018). Ali has a PhD from the Australian National University. Her thesis examined group behaviour (culture), social psychology and international law. Some of the gems in this interview The way leaders regulate themselves is picked up by others. Where you go others will go. If you are feeling joy, that joy can be transferred and shared across a whole team. People who work in novel environments do better. Since 2015 there has been a shift in was works in an organisation. Culture is crucial to an organisation. Culture eats strategy for breakfast- Peter Drucker. How people feel work is essential to outcomes. Productivity is linked to inclusion, having fun, being valued at work. When we keep on getting culture wrong people leave, people are being bullied and people’s wellbeing declines. Workplace culture needs to be coached as an ongoing process. Flexibility in the workplace since Covid is one of the biggest changes for the industrial world. Most important factor is belonging by safely connecting with others. The best outcomes come from diversity. Click or Clash explores how to navigate different connection types and different personalities with a QR code for a questionnaire that identifies what your own connection and personality type, at the start of the book as to what.