Alexa Tilley
A brief introduction to Alexa Tilley
As a candidate on the second series of the BBC’s The Apprentice, Alexa competed for the opportunity to become Sir Alan Sugar’s Apprentice for a year long contract. Despite being ‘fired’ by Sir Alan, Alexa had a great experience on the Apprentice and has gone on to deliver key public speaking engagements at business conferences.
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Alexa Tilley's biography
Born in 1977, Alexa currently lives West Hampstead, North London. After graduating with a degree in Economics from Cambridge University in 1999, Alexa joined Ernst & Young and then Capgemini as a management consultant.
Alexa specialised in change management and also supply chain consulting. In summer 2007 Alexa joined RogenSi as a management trainer and executive coach, working with professionals in a range of business sectors, to help to enhance the impact people have around communications and speaking publicly, as well as using the right mindset to achieve the best performance possible both in and outside work.
A keen interest in encouraging young people into business has seen Alexa working with Young Enterprise, helping to raise the profile of the scheme and also participating in various business challenge days run in schools across the country, in order to help give young people an insight into business.
In her spare time Alexa enjoys playing tennis, cycling and competing in Triathlons.
Motivation and Self Belief in the Workplace
Alexa shares ideas around the importance of being motivated within the world of work in order to get the best performances out of yourself. Alexa compares the world of business to the world of sport and looks at what it takes to achieve sustained success in your career.
Alexa also gives some tips around how to be at your best when you need to be, in order to access your full ability and be able to adapt and apply your skills to best effect in the business environment within which you find yourself.
Qualities of an Entrepreneur
Alexa investigates the qualities that separate great entrepreneurs from the rest and the qualities that allow individuals and businesses go from ‘good to great’.
Alexa also raises the question of whether you can be an entrepreneur as an employee within an organisation. Alexa compares and contrasts some excellent well known entrepreneurs and looks at the merits of different business styles.
Survival in the Apprentice V Success in Business
Alexa shares some anecdotes from her time in the Apprentice and looks into the phenomenon of business in the world of the Apprentice and how this compares to real life business.
Alexa has some interesting insights into the behaviours that Sir Alan’s ‘dog eat dog’ philosophy brings out in the candidates and asks if this is the route to achieving optimum team performance? The concept of the Apprentice ‘team’ is explored, with the threat of the boardroom in the background, but Alexa asks whether this is so much different from the real world of work that we all operate in?
Career Management and Becoming Famous!
Alexa explores the topic of personal branding in work and how you can use this to your own advantage. Alexa shares thoughts around the importance of other people’s viewpoints, perceptions and expectations of your own performance, as well as how you can effectively start to shape and manage this in order to reach the goals you have as quickly as possible.
Business games
Alexa runs a range of business games/ challenges, that seek to develop teamwork, but also can be tied in with current organisation objectives i.e. to bring learning around some of the behaviours/ attitudes that are believed to be valuable, due to the current organisation challenges being faced.
Olympic Business Challenge
This Challenge Event is designed for 14 – 16 year olds, to give them an insight into planning a business and pitching the idea. In the process of the Challenge students learn how to work well in teams; assign roles effectively given each others’ strengths, and also they get experience of giving a final presentation to a judging panel, under pressure.
Facilitation of leadership workshops
Alexa specialises in design and facilitation of workshops, in order to achieve the business outcomes that are required. Alexa will work with a range of stakeholders during the planning of a workshop and then work in partnership with specific subject matter experts as required, during the workshop, in order to ensure the right business results are achieved from the session. Alexa believes that workshops are an extremely powerful way of achieving a common view of the best way forward and ensuring there is full team buy-in to this and actions are clearly planned.
What it takes to make the most of Business Change
With her background in Change Management consulting, Alexa looks at the importance of the attitudes of individuals in times of change. Alexa explores the Emotional Cycle of Change and asks the question of how people can begin to view change as a real opportunity, rather than a chore. Ultimately Alexa believes that teamwork and a unified approach to change, achieves the greatest results, with every person in an organisation playing a fundamental role. Alexa also investigates the relative importance of People; Processes and Systems and how these need to compliment each other to get the best out of a change programme.
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