SPEAKER · FACILITATOR · LEADERSHIP COACH

Practical leadership development for people who want better leaders, better teams and better work.

I'm Alicia Savage. Speaker, facilitator and leadership coach.

I work with leaders and organisations to make the human side of work actually work. Better conversations. More ownership. Stronger teams. Leadership that holds up when things get busy, messy and very human.

No leadership theatre. No learning for learning's sake. Just practical development people can actually use back at work.

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WORK WITH ALICIA

I talk about work.
The human bit.

The conversations. The leadership stuff. The team dynamics. The things we somehow expect people to magically know how to do.

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Speaking

Keynotes and talks for leaders, teams and organisations who want practical ideas they can actually use when they get back to work.

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Facilitation

Workshops, leadership sessions and team experiences that get people talking, thinking, practising and working on the things that actually matter.

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Leadership Development

Practical development for leaders who want better conversations, stronger teams and more ownership without everything coming back to them.

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A few of the organisations and teams I've worked with

Suncorp Ventia Grant Thornton Queensland Arts Mueller Construction Group

WHAT I TALK ABOUT

Leadership gets really interesting when humans are involved.

My work sits where leadership, communication and team performance collide.

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Getting teams to take ownership

Helping leaders stop becoming the answer to every question, decision and problem.

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Conversations people usually avoid

Feedback, expectations, accountability, boundaries and saying the actual thing.

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Leading without doing everything yourself

Coaching, delegation and creating the conditions for people to think for themselves.

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How teams actually work

Trust, communication, clarity, decision making and the hidden friction that gets in the way of good work.

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Motivation at work

What people need from leaders to stay clear, capable, connected and moving.

MY LEADERSHIP PHILOSOPHY

Know when to ask.
Know when to tell.
Know when to get out of the way.

Leadership isn't about having every answer. It's about creating the conditions where your people don't need you to.

THE DIFFERENCE

Less leadership theatre.
More actual work.

Practical

You won't leave with fourteen models you'll never look at again. We work on things you can actually use.

Human

People are messy. Work is messy. Leadership development should probably acknowledge that.

Built for the room

I read the room, adapt, ask questions and work with what's actually happening rather than blindly following a slide deck.

Designed to stick

Learning isn't the outcome. What people do differently afterwards is.

HI, I'M ALICIA

I'm deeply interested in what happens when you put a bunch of humans together and call it a team.

I'm a speaker, facilitator, coach and leadership development practitioner who has spent years leading people, developing leaders and working inside the reality of organisations.

I've been the leader trying to have the hard conversation. The person responsible for performance. The facilitator standing in front of the room. And the coach asking, “Okay, but what are you actually going to do?”

That mix shapes how I work now.

I don't believe people development should sit nicely in a workbook. It should change conversations, decisions, behaviour and ultimately how work gets done.

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LOOKING FOR MORE THAN A SESSION?

That's where SOSA comes in.

SOSA Consulting is my people development agency for organisations that want to go deeper.

Leadership programs. Team development. Diagnostics. Coaching. Capability development. Longer-term partnerships.

Same practical philosophy. Bigger organisational piece.

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SPEAKING · FACILITATION · LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

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