About Me - My Biography

Ainsley is Head of Talent at Coca-Cola Amatil, one of AustraliaÍs ïTop-50Í listed companies and a 2011 AON Hewitt Top Company for leaders in the Asia-Pacific.

Ainsley’s career has spanned predominantly strategic roles in talent acquisition and management, OD and leadership development, engagement, learning design and capability, and communications. She is also an Executive Coach practising evidence-based coaching. Her strengths and achievements include conceptual thinking and design, creativity and influencing, managing change and building highly capable teams.

Ainsley has served on a number of boards and committees related to talent and leadership, including currently as Director of the Study Overseas Foundation, and formerly of the Australian Association of Graduate Employers, Enterprise Network for Young Australians and Microsoft’s global ‘Board of the Future’. She brings an entrepreneurial pedigree having started her first training business at age 19, and at 21 being granted $1mil from the Prime Minister to co-found a non-profit company supporting entrepreneurs. Ainsley has achieved a number of distinctions for her work including representing Australia as a young executive at APEC, Commonwealth and United Nations employment forums abroad.