Alison Charles is a Non Executive Director of Investcope. She has decades of experience in individual, team, and organisational development. She has worked across commercial, public, and military organisations.

Professionally, Alison specialises in designing leadership programmes, senior team coaching, personal, team, and cultural resilience. through her Real Resilience business. Her experience is borne from a career providing large-scale global solutions for Learning and Development, Corporate Well-being, HR, HSSE, and Finance in companies such as Hambros Bank and latterly Shell International UK.  She developed skills that are core to the roles of Programme Management, Change Management, and Organisational Development. Change management and communication are at the core of everything she does. Above all, Alison is passionate about building Real Resilience for all and bringing communities together to tackle systemic issues. She developed the Real Resilience Framework.

Alison Charles is a dreamer, a creative, a change-maker, and a bit of a workaholic. Her experience of burnout in 2012 spurred a change in her life direction to focus on the three things she loves the most – Helping others achieve Real Resilience, creating space for change, and being the best versions of themselves that they can be. Consequently, she’s currently balancing her love of motorbikes and singing with writing her next book and designing her new garden.