Alicia Lillington
Thought Leader in Technology, Change and Culture
Profile
Alicia Louise Lillington is an acclaimed technology, culture and change management leader.
As a young female executive in the technology industry, Alicia empowers others to embrace change where culture meets technology.
She is recognised as an intellectual and cultural leader, with experience building a vibrant and extended community of allies, supporters and champions.
Current Work:
Based in Canberra, Alicia works as a Change and Communications Lead on high-profile projects across the Australian Public Service. She has delivered speeches to 40 agencies across the Commonwealth and all ministerial offices, having even received a letter from former Australian Prime Minister John Howard for exceptional service delivery.
In addition to her impressive career, Alicia has mentored over 300 individuals, delivered more than 240 speeches and provided corporate training to over 27,250 people across high-profile organisations. Alicia is passionate about the importance of diversity and how you can use your point of difference to develop a compelling personal brand. With an ever-evolving digital landscape, her ethos is to keep studying, understanding and learning about technology.
Feedback
Alicia is wonderfully knowledgeable on leadership, diversity and inclusion and I look forward to working with her in the future.
I have watched Alicia capture and inspire audiences during her well-considered and very articulate public speaking events; she has the innate ability to seamlessly coordinate and facilitate workshops and training courses, whilst maintaining focus and motivation of participants.
I had the opportunity to work with Alicia for Day Two of the Public Sector Women in Leadership Summit in Canberra. Alicia displayed great characteristics of a chairperson and keynote speaker, from connecting with the crowd and keeping the audience engaged, to aiding with keeping the conference to time to ensure speakers are not inconvenienced. Alicia exemplified an innovative approach to speaking and chairing, which allowed the audience to follow along and add overall value to the conference through her creative input. Compounded by Alicia’s own achievements and personal value, the chairperson experience aligned compatibly with the message the summit aimed to deliver. Adaptability and flexibility are two key traits which distinguish a good chairperson from a mediocre chair, and we were very pleased with Alicia’s ability to adapt to the changes which are akin to live in-person and hybrid events. Alicia left an overall positive impression and enabled smooth running of the event, which can be reflected in the positive feedback we received from delegates.
Alicia very kindly accepted our invitation to speak at Kids’ Conference Australia 2021 within the Humanities/Arts Sessions on 17th November. Alicia’s talk was very clear, insightful and sensitive to her student audience. She inspired and promoted student voice, student agency and leadership. Alicia motivated students and their teachers to embrace cultural and technological change through thoughtful reinforcement. She combined positive psychology with authoritative in-depth insights into collaborative learning and contemporary approaches to education in meeting the needs of our uncertain times. It was a privilege having Alicia as our Kids’ Conference guest speaker and look forward to her future involvement with Kids’ Conference Australia.
I met Alicia while she was working on a complex project rolling out a new finance management system for the Digital Transformation Agency during COVID-19. As a presenter, she is knowledgeable and engaging. Her skills, knowledge and engaging presence were exceptionally valuable on this project.
Alicia has an immense capacity and passion for mentoring others. She is willing to invest the time and effort to actively listen and provide constructive feedback regardless of background and experience. Her valuable guidance has helped me grow my professional capabilities. I would recommend Alicia to anyone in search of a mentor or professional guidance.
Alicia is a dedicated Change and Communications Manager who is well suited to all aspects of Change management. During my time as the Project Manager at Department of Finance, I worked closely with Alicia to manage an IT implementation solution for seven government agencies. Alicia was a pleasure to work with. I found her very competent and capable of dealing with all aspects of Change management. Alicia was able to deal with the complexities of implementation and manage and execute Change, Communication, Training design and delivery. She managed a diverse group of staff from Finance analysts to senior management. Her people management and stakeholder management skills were exceptional. I have a very high regard for her abilities to manage Change. She is also an exceptional colleague to work with and very easy to get along with. Her constant helpful nature towards everyone is an asset to any team she works for or will work for. Given the opportunity it will a pleasure to work with her again.
