ALISON MCAULAY

Chief Transformation Officer & Co-Founder, Switch On Leadership

Alison McAulay is a groundbreaking leadership development theorist and practitioner, executive coach, and trauma-based therapist. Her mission is to re-humanize businesses — and their teams and cultures — by expanding the consciousness, compassion, creativity, and capabilities of senior leaders and the team members they lead. McAulay is the co-founder and Chief Learning Officer of the boutique leadership consultancy Switch On Leadership. In this role, she is a coach and advisor to CEOs and teams at organizations like Syngenta, Zalando, Citizen, and LEGO.

McAulay is a former Team USA elite gymnast, professional dancer, and choreographer in Los Angeles and San Francisco; she has a BA in Performing Arts and advanced training in trauma-informed therapies, including Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, ACT, Attachment Theory, and Kundalini Yoga. With this wealth of knowledge and experience transforming hearts and minds, she has spent many years working with her Switch On Leadership co-founder to unfold the Self-to-System™ leadership method.