Partners in performance and inclusion
Who we are
At ELIS Advantage, we’re a bunch of real people, doing meaningful and impactful work united by our commitment to co-create workplaces where everyone can perform and thrive.
Through data-driven, needs-based, and sustainable leadership solutions, we support organisations to achieve high performance while fostering inclusive environments where people and organisations succeed together.
How do we do it?
Our principles guide our decisions and behaviour:
We have fierce conversations.
We work with leaders and organisations to engage in honest, evidence-informed conversations that surface what really matters for performance, inclusion, and progress.
We practice compassionate accountability.
We support people and systems to take responsibility for action and impact, balancing challenge with care as change is designed and delivered.
We take aligned action
Our solutions are grounded in organisational needs and context, ensuring strategy, behaviour, and systems move in the same direction.
We choose the most effective option
We focus on what works in practice, drawing on data, experience, and insight to prioritise effectiveness over performative or one-size-fits-all approaches.
We design the most inclusive solutions
We co-create leadership and organisational solutions that include diverse needs and perspectives, enabling sustainable performance for individuals, teams, and organisations.
Meet the founder
Dr Sile Walsh is an established leadership specialist, award-winning, and international best-selling author in leadership development. She is a lecturer, facilitator, coach, researcher, consultant, and accredited professional supervisor who has worked internationally with over 25,000+ leaders and organisations for over a decade.
Based in Dublin and working throughout Ireland, internationally, both in person and online. Sile is the global diversity and inclusion co-lead for the Association of Coaching.
Sile’s PhD researched inclusive leadership from a psychological perspective, building on her professional background in coaching psychology and organisational development.
As a leadership development specialist, Sile brings a unique perspective and is passionate about co-creating inclusive workplaces where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
Her work supports effective leadership, enabling organisations to be high-performing, inclusive workplaces where people thrive and great work gets done.
Meet the faculty
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Dr. Liz Wilson is a behavioral scientist, organizational transformation expert, and founder of Include Inc. Originally from Australia and now based in the United States, Dr. Liz is well known for her authentic, honest, and pragmatic approach to everything she does. This includes her simple, yet powerful, Include Change Method that has achieved amazing results for her clients over the span of her 25+ year career. Dr. Liz has transformed the ways of working and cultures of dozens of global organizations including; major airlines, banks, consumer goods, telecommunications, mining, rail, tech and medtech companies.
With a professional purpose that has always centered around the desire to equip individuals, teams, and organizations to thrive; Dr. Liz’s unrelenting curiosity also led her to research and find the solution to inclusion transformation, and reducing discrimination, with the development of the 8-Inclusion Needs of all People.
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Hannah O'Neill is a multidisciplinary strategist and executive coach. With over a decade of experience, her expertise spans brand strategy, leadership communications, innovation, and culture.
Guided by the principles of human-centred design, she helps brands and their leaders plan for and create the future.
Hannah is the founder of coaching and consultancy Future State Studio, where she has helped iconic brands such as lululemon and Chloé to shape and share their stories and build lasting connections with their audiences. Previously, she was Head of Strategy for a leading Irish communications consultancy where she led the strategic comms for clients including Lidl, Irish Distillers and LloydsPharmacy.
Specialist skills:
Coaching
Leadership communications
Personal brand development
Building cultures of innovation through creativity and co-creation
Brand strategy and storytelling
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Expertise in leader and leadership development, intra and inter-organisational collaboration, creativity, innovation and working with conflict and complex systemic challenges in public, private and not for profit sectors espec. health. education, local and national government and multi-agency working.
Rob is an award winning and highly experienced academic, researcher and consultant in leadership, collaboration and innovation, working at levels from emerging leaders to Board level. Rob has designed and developed leader and leadership development programmes specifically across the public, private and not for profit sectors.
His cutting-edge and evidence-based collaborative PhD research and practice on place-based leadership development (P-BLD), has been highly impactful in developing the collaborative capability of local leaders working on complex challenges such as urban violence in Kenya, Uganda , Guatemala and Morocco (Nov 2023).
Rob also carries out impact evaluations of leadership programmes and strategic cross sector partnership initiatives - most recent was Review of South Dublin County Council's countywide "Have Your Say 300k" Participatory Budgeting Initiative
Locations: UK and EU, also have experience of working in Global South - Africa and Guatemala, fluent French speaker
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Thomas McCormack is a dynamic professional coach who transitioned from a career in events and marketing to a fulfilling role where he empowers individuals and groups to discover and leverage their innate strengths and abilities. After leaving the security of his previous job in 2018, Thomas embarked on a journey of self-discovery and professional development, ultimately finding his calling in helping others create authentic, meaningful, and sustainable lives and careers. His approach is deeply personal, utilising his own gifts in a dynamic way to assist others in recognising and developing theirs.