Ash Wallace

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Olympic performance expert and mental health advocate

Ashleigh began her international sporting career representing South Africa in hockey before becoming an internationally renowned physiotherapist and lecturer. She has more than 20 years-experience of working with world-class athletes and in leading and managing teams in various roles with the English Institute of Sport. Ashleigh believes that to manage health and wellbeing effectively requires treating it as a complex problem in a complex context, best tackled by collective and collaborative wisdom from multiple sources. As a speaker, Ashleigh’s focus is on developing multidisciplinary teams who are interdependent and with a key message of the importance of collective decision-making. Her experience drives a key question: how might we better help people and organisations to embrace uncertainty and let learning lead the way in optimising health and wellbeing? ​