Sharpen your strategy, transform your leadership - with Alicia McKay.
Speaker, author, mentor,
local government lover.
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Alicia McKay makes strategy simple
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Alicia McKay: strategy expert, keynote speaker and renegade entrepreneur, turns overwhelmed leaders into savvy strategists. With wit, wisdom, and a no-nonsense approach, Alicia delivers more than theory, equipping you with the cut-through skills you need to forge your path and own your future.
From overcoming incredible personal odds, to guiding New Zealand and Australia's most senior leaders through change and transformation, Alicia McKay is a force of strategic innovation and leadership.
With a blend of humour, candor, and razor-sharp insight, Alicia doesn't just talk strategy - she embodies it.
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Unleash your inner strategist with Alicia McKay's speaking, training, and workshops
Specialist programmes for senior leaders, local government and self-employed consultants.
Alicia McKay teaches strategic skills like decision-making, systems thinking, strategic planning, facilitation, change leadership and performance management - in Plain English.
Workshops and in-house training options for teams and organisations. Online courses for individuals
Not An MBA
LEADERSHIP COURSE
Not An MBA
Not An MBA is eight weeks of executive leadership development for the savvy strategist in you.
Join over 450 senior leaders across New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK have transformed their life, work and leadership.
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Strategic Public Leaders
Specifically tailored for local government. Get your elected members and executive team out of the weeds and into the future with focused strategic development.
Consultants of Choice
CONSULTING COMMUNITY
Consultants of Choice
Curriculum, coaching and community for self-employed consultants.
As founder and mentor, Alicia supports a community of consultants to start, run and grow their own consulting businesses.
Speaker and MC
CONFERENCES
Conference Speaker and MC
Facilitated conference experiences for organisers who want more than the average conference. Keynotes, masterclasses, panel interviews, audience engagement and MC services.
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Trust Alicia McKay to make learning and planning an enjoyable experience for your team
Most people have been to more workshops than they can count - and very few of them changed anything. Spending time with Alicia McKay is different.
Personable, personal, and bursting with life, Alicia's presenting and facilitation style is anything but boring. Combining her depth of expertise in strategy, investment logic, decision-making and strategic facilitation with humour, irreverence, and an insistence on speaking plainly, Alicia's style is a surprise and delight to teams in all industries and sectors.
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Want to level up your strategy skills but don't know where to start?
Turn your busy leaders into savvy strategists and unleash their true potential.
Alicia runs in-house workshops, training, and masterclasses in strategy, leadership, strategic planning, and facilitation skills.
Looking to boost your next away day or leaders forum?
Perfect. Alicia regularly gives talks and runs short sessions for organisations that need a boost. Tell us what you're after, and we'll see if we can help.
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Read Alicia McKay's popular books on strategy and leadership
Most business books are boring. They're a bunch of self-important, middle-aged, middle-class white dudes telling you about their morning routine and how they excel at the office (while their wife takes care of the rest.)
Worse, they're not useful. Those books are packed with American corporate theory that sounds good on the page, until you think about the complicated mess that is your life and work, and it all falls over.
Read these books instead. Practical, actionable advice grounded in best-practice research and written in Alicia's trademark style.
Take self-led online courses in strategy and strategic planning.
Online courses in strategic planning, facilitation and strategy are available through the Alicia McKay Academy,
Free learning options are also available in strategy and strategic leadership.
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