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Senior Practitioner
“I believe our potential is limitless if we are brave enough to explore what
we’re truly capable of,
individually and together.”
Alex’s career spans three decades and encompasses different industries, with development and impact as common themes. She started work in national newspapers, but quickly felt the lure of wider horizons, and headed to INSEAD for her MBA. From there she built a career in marketing and strategy which took her round the world and across industries from tech and media to banking. Motivated to apply her skills to improve lives, Alex left industry for the UK Government’s Cabinet Office where she led a cross-government service transformation workstream, later joining the leadership team of a global government consultancy.
Retraining as a coach in 2018 was a transformational experience for Alex and led to further study in the neuroscience of change, positive psychology and systemic thinking. She joined Complete in 2022, and today brings all her experience, skills and passion to support leaders and teams in their journeys of growth.
“As a coach, my greatest joy is helping my clients to uncover their own unique purpose and grow into their most fulfilled and resourceful selves.”
Alex Oliver – Senior Practitioner
Alex works with ambitious teams and leaders who want to be challenged to get more out of life and truly transform themselves, their work and their communities. A veteran of workshop design and facilitation, she loves to bring tried and tested approaches to clients to enable deep and lasting development at the personal, team and organisation level.
Alex has worked across sectors, at board level and in large multi-national corporate contexts, in a range of roles from training to strategy and innovation to business development. She understands and has lived the inherent challenges of business and leadership. Alongside this, she brings huge empathy and heart to her coaching work, as well as playfulness and challenge, thereby creating the safe and courageous conditions that underpin the most powerful personal and professional growth.
Alex is a professional coach, trained by the globally renowned Co-Active Training Institute (CTI), accredited as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF) since 2021. She has an MBA from INSEAD, 1st class degree from Bristol University and is a longstanding Fellow of the RSA.
Alex speaks English and French fluently as well as Spanish domestically.
View Alex’s bio in French here.
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Experience personal growth and success with our approach that prioritises your development as an individual, fosters stronger relationships and empowers you to take actions towards fulfilment. We delve into every aspect of your being, from biology to behaviour, offering insights on how to control your physiology, master emotions, and enhance your thinking speed and quality. Collaborating with you, we’ll transform your relationships with colleagues, stakeholders and students, elevating the effectiveness of your working teams. Our development programmes deliver measurable impact, and our coaching ensures a clear return on investment.
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Impact: Organisational & Personal Development
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Our CEO coaching methodology is different from the mainstream.
We start with a leader’s biology not their behaviours and results. We teach you to control your physiology, manage your emotions, increase the speed and quality of your thinking as well as transform your relationship with stakeholders and customers.
The impact of our CEO coaching is measurable and delivers a clear ROI.
Best Solution: Energy Audit, Values Profile, Coaching Team Journey
Impact: Organisational Development & Energy Management
Our approach starts with supporting senior leaders by understanding and focusing on the leader’s energy and emotions, rather than their external behaviours and results. Controlling your physiology and managing your emotions will unlock hidden capabilities and ultimately drive higher levels of performance.
Our interventions have an impact that is not just felt but measured, providing you with a clear and tangible return on your coaching investment.
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Our coaching methodology is different. We start with an assessment of a leader’s biology. That assessment then guides our coaching conversations.
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Impact: Leadership Development & Personal Development
So many teams fail to fulfil their potential. Our Team Journey approach is proven to step change performance. It is development in and around the flow of work.
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Complete Network Analysis reveals, with incredible precision, how your company actually works. Our technology identifies powerful, actionable data-based insights about what’s going on in your business and guides interventions to improve your performance.
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Our comprehensiveBehavioural Report helps build the behaviours needed to achieve results in challenging, intricate and ever-changing market conditions.
We offer a range of assessments designed to measure the progress of 11 different performance-enhancing behaviours. In different combinations, they provide a deep insight to the core behaviours of a team, leader or organisation.
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Recruitment and promotion often prioritise technical competence and sector experience but, at a senior level, values become a better determinant of a leader’s suitability. The Complete Values Profile, based on 40 years of extensive research, assesses leaders’ value systems, providing insights into their strategic, operational and managerial approaches.
The Complete Values Profile helps determine cultural fit, growth potential, and authenticity. Leaders can be benchmarked against each other and our global database of over 16,000 leaders.
Best for: Leaders, Organisations.
Impact: Succession Planning, Talent Acquisition
The Complete Energy Audit combines 72-hour heart rate monitoring with a diary and online questionnaire to give one of the most objective assessments of leadership performance and potential.
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Impact: Leadership Development & Energy Management
Dr Alan Watkins & Matt Simister
A Clinician’s Guide to Psychoneuroimmunology
Discover the cutting-edge world of psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) and its powerful impact on health. This book dives into groundbreaking research showing how your perceptions and emotions influence immunity and overall well-being.
Learn how mind-body connections affect illness and explore practical insights for integrating these concepts into medical practice. Whether you’re a healthcare provider or just curious about the mind-body link, this accessible guide offers a comprehensive introduction to this rapidly evolving field.
Dr Alan Watkins & Matt Simister
Eat Better, Waste Less, Share More
The third book in the critically acclaimed Wicked & Wise series offers a compelling analysis of the issue of food on an international scale. From nutrition to world hunger to GM farming, what are the impacts of food and food issues on regional, political, cultural, business and social priorities?
With 2 billion obese and 2 billion hungry, food is a key issue in the future development of the world’s population and its health. As with every wicked and wise issue, it throws up significant moral, political and economic concerns when tackling how we will keep the world’s population nourished in decades to come.
Dr Alan Watkins & Iman Stratenus
The End of Politics
The book tackles one of the most crucial questions of our time: Who should decide our future? Traditional democracy is faltering, leaving power in the hands of a small elite while the masses feel sidelined. It introduces “Crowdocracy”—a revolutionary approach where everyone, not just a select few, influences governance.
By harnessing technology and collective wisdom, it offers a way for all of us to shape our communities directly. As the second instalment in the Wicked & Wise series, it presents bold, thought-provoking solutions to pressing global issues, co-authored by Alan Watkins and leading experts.
Dr Alan Watkins & Ken Wilber
How to Solve the World’s Toughest Problems
Wicked and Wise: How to Solve the World’s Toughest Problems is the debut title in a fresh series from Urbane Publications. Created by leading consultant Alan Watkins, this book dives into critical global issues and offers smart, insightful solutions to break through current challenges. Each book in the series features Alan co-authoring with an expert in the field.
The first instalment, co-written with renowned philosopher Ken Wilber, addresses urgent topics such as cultural clashes and technology’s rise. It sets the stage for discussing how leaders can tackle these challenges with sophisticated, multi-faceted strategies, leading with wisdom and foresight.
Dr Alan Watkins & Simon Jones
How Leaders Build & Break Trust
In 2020, a global pandemic struck, but by the end of 2021, a second, unrelated pandemic emerged—a cultural virus of deceit, threatening humanity more than the virus itself. This cultural virus thrives on dishonesty, with lies becoming a skill that propels individuals to the highest offices in government and business.
Dishonesty is now rewarded, and deceit is so common that daily deception no longer shocks us. Business leaders must become Truth Activists, re-examining their own relationship with the truth and taking a stand to survive.
“Lie-Ability: How Leaders Build & Break Trust” offers a way to combat this cultural virus and halt the decay of truth.
Dr Alan Watkins
The Science of Exceptional Leadership and Performance
Most leaders aren’t reaching their full potential. In “Coherence,” Dr. Alan Watkins shows leaders how to transform their performance and unlock their true potential. He shares techniques that have boosted leaders in FTSE 50 companies, SMEs, and even the Olympic Rowing Team to new heights.
This book reveals how leadership success is rooted in biology, offering insights on boosting energy, resilience, happiness, and health. With case studies and research, Dr. Watkins unveils the secrets to exceptional leadership and everyday brilliance. Now in its second edition, “Coherence” includes new tools and insights to enhance productivity, innovation, and commercial performance while promoting overall well-being.
Dr Alan Watkins & Nick Dalton
Change the Workplace, Change the World
Observers suggest that capitalism is damaging our planet and concentrating power in a few companies. With short-termism, leveraged debt, digitisation, and disruption as the new normal, we face two possible futures: a regression to the harsh days of the early Industrial Revolution and the Great Depression, or a world of abundance and prosperity. Business, particularly HR, will play a crucial role in determining our path.
“The HR (R)Evolution: Change the Workplace, Change the World” explores the evolution of HR and its pivotal role in shaping our future. It outlines the “Seven Great Waves” of change and their impact on business, highlighting how some companies remain stuck in the past and how HR can lead the way forward. This book is for senior business leaders and HR professionals who understand that people issues are the central challenge of our time. Embracing future waves of change will determine our survival and prosperity. The future is in our hands.
Dr Alan Watkins
The Leader’s Journey
No one likes change, often seen as something to endure quickly before returning to normal. We need to see change as an opportunity. “Step Change: The Leader’s Journey” helps leaders navigate change gracefully and productively.
Inspired by Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey, this book provides a universal roadmap for change, from the comfort zone to post-delivery inspiration. The journey unfolds through four stages: Discover, Decide, Develop, and Deliver. “Step Change” offers a proven formula to identify where you are on the Change Wheel, anticipate each step, and avoid pitfalls. Mastering this cycle helps leaders manage both personal and organisational change effectively.
Dr Alan Watkins
Competitive Advantage through Vertical Leadership Development
Today’s leaders must radically evolve to navigate complex, ever-changing business landscapes. This transformation involves a step-change in three key areas: actions, identity, and relationships. Achieving mastery in these areas unlocks the fourth dimension (verticality), giving leaders a significant competitive edge.
In “4D Leadership,” neuroscientist and leadership coach Dr. Alan Watkins offers a groundbreaking framework based on adult development research. This isn’t just an upgrade in skills; it’s an evolution to the next level of leadership.
“4D Leadership” is essential for anyone overwhelmed by job demands, stressed about maintaining competitive advantage through innovation, or seeking to develop a more responsive and effective leadership strategy.
Dr Alan Watkins & Simon May
Time to Think Differently
Businesses spend billions on innovation with little return. This book challenges traditional innovation methods and offers a new approach.
Innovation is about successfully commercialising novel ideas. Instead of costly problem assessments, an ‘impeller approach’ starts with solutions and lets the market pull the best ones forward, enabling fast failures or successes. This process is guided by a ‘bee’—an integrative thinker who gathers existing knowledge from experts. By reversing the traditional process, organisations can better succeed in the market.
Given high innovation failure rates and complex societal issues, it’s time to rethink innovation. This book is essential for Heads of Innovation, Directors of Marketing, New Product and Service Development leaders, Strategy Directors, Chief Technology Officers, and policy makers.
CEO & Founder
“I have dedicated my life to helping leaders develop and make better decisions”
A physician and neuroscientist, Dr. Alan Watkins is recognised as an international expert on leadership and human performance. He has coached thousands of individuals to greater levels of performance and transformed organisational cultures.