Insight AwareLeadership & human performance
Insight Aware helps leaders and teams work with those effects directly—through practical psychology, honest reflection and carefully chosen embodied experience.
The territory
Under sustained pressure, attention narrows. Communication becomes more reactive. Teams can become busy without becoming effective.
The work goes deeper into the habits behind those responses and the conditions leaders create around them. Regulation is part of that, alongside listening, giving direction and making space for others to contribute and take responsibility.
In the room
My sessions combine clear psychological framing with reflection, dialogue and carefully chosen embodied experience. Participants have time to notice their own patterns, test a different response and make sense of what it means for the work they return to.
Breath and sound are used when they serve the purpose of the session: to create space, shift attention and make the learning felt rather than merely understood.
Ways to work together
Bespoke · Half day, full day or series
Space to work on a real leadership challenge, with time to test ideas and practise different responses. Each Lab is shaped around your people and context.
Established · Two-hour workshop
A focused workshop on how pressure shows up at work and how to respond with more choice. Reflection, movement and guided breath practices make the learning tangible.
The emphasis is adapted to the audience and the pressures they face.
Explore Reset for ImpactIn development · Three-hour workshop
How does it feel to speak up, disagree or admit uncertainty in this team? An experiential workshop exploring the bodily experience of safety alongside the leadership behaviours and working conditions that support it.
The focus goes beyond helping people feel calmer: it includes what happens when someone raises a difficult issue, makes a mistake or challenges a decision.
Explore the workshop conceptAn example of the work
My work with Junior Professional Officers at the UN Staff College connected career direction and professional identity with the everyday practice of self-leadership.
We explored how habits, agency and regulation influence the way people work and lead. This included the physiology of leadership: noticing how physical responses to pressure can shape attention and behaviour, alongside the choices people can make about their direction.
The work brought career reflection and leadership development into the same conversation.
What gives the work depth
Individual and group coaching experience across demanding professional contexts.
ICF credentialed, with psychology, mental-health and coaching training.
Working with teams, managers and mentors on leadership skills, psychological safety and shared direction.
Work with Alison
Tell me what your leaders are carrying, what is changing, and where the current approach is getting stuck. We can explore whether a Leadership Lab or Reset for Impact fits.
Arrange an introductory conversation