Behavioural Strategy · Organisational Psychology

Strategy begins
with thinking

I work with boards, founders, and leadership teams who can sense something is off before it appears in the metrics. I diagnose the psychology underneath the strategy.

The work

Fixing strategy by
fixing thinking

With two decades of experience across corporates, scale-ups, purpose-driven organisations, and complex systems, I bring a behavioural lens to the questions that sit beneath strategy. This includes the blind spots, power dynamics, and decision habits that quietly shape every planning cycle, offsite, and high-stakes meeting.

I am a strategic partner with psychological depth, combining behavioural science, neuroeconomics, and organisational psychology to help you navigate uncertainty without eroding trust, judgement, or the fundamentally human core of your organisation.

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Elizabeth J Wallis
20+
Years of practice
PhD
Neuroeconomics · UCT GSB · Under Examination
Board
Multiple directorships
Africa
Pan-African reach

Selected clients & partners

Fidelity Bank Enterprise Group

What I offer

Seven ways I
partner with you

Each engagement is shaped around your specific context, without templates or off-the-shelf frameworks.

Executive Integration Partner

Structured behavioural support through mergers, acquisitions, and major organisational transitions, protecting the human value that financial due diligence cannot see and that integration plans rarely address.

Human-Centred AI Adoption

Helping organisations adopt intelligent systems in ways that preserve human agency, ethical judgement, and cultural identity, because technology changes the tools but it does not change the psychology of the people using them.

Behavioural Strategy Audits

A focused diagnostic to surface the real drivers of strategic drift, including decision patterns, incentive structures, power dynamics, and the cultural fault lines that rarely appear in board reports.

Board & Leadership Facilitation

Design and facilitation of high-stakes meetings and offsites where alignment and clarity matter most, helping boards and leadership teams work through complexity and make better collective decisions.

Confidential Senior Advisory

One-to-one strategic thinking partnership for CEOs, founders, and senior executives who need a psychologically informed space to test decisions and decode the dynamics around them.

Decision Architecture & Culture

Redesigning how decisions are made and how power and responsibility flow, addressing the cultural conditions that enable or constrain strategy and supporting thoughtful integration of AI into how your organisation works.

Leadership Development

Bespoke programmes for senior and emerging leaders who need to build the judgement and relational capacity to lead well through uncertainty, particularly in environments where the rules keep changing.

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Elizabeth brings a rare combination of psychological rigour and strategic pragmatism. She sees what others miss and helps you act on it before it shows up in the numbers.