Annalie Killian

Annalie Killian works at the intersection of cognitive capital, decision intelligence and business transformation. Through her consulting practice Cognoscenti, she advises boards and leadership teams on strategy and complex decisions, convenes and chairs advisory boards, and draws on a global network of experts across multiple disciplines. Over a career spanning five continents, she has launched new divisions, built expert ecosystems, grown human capital and decision intelligence, and created the trusted relationships that help organisations move from hesitation to action. Her clients have included Fortune 500 companies, G20 governments and the World Economic Forum.

Previously, she served as VP/Director of Strategic Partnerships at Omnicom Group in New York and Paris, where she curated and guided expert advisory boards informing consumer insight, futures research and innovation pipelines for global brands. As VP of Innovation & Culture at AMP Financial Services in Sydney, she built corporate innovation infrastructure and founded the Amplify Festival of Business Innovation, growing it into a multi-city thought-leadership series. At BHP in South Africa, as Director of Corporate Affairs, she launched a Community Foundation that turned seed capital into $20 million of investment and executed transformation projects reaching two million lives during the country’s transition to democracy. She began her career in accounting and auditing with Deloitte.

Annalie holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree, with postgraduate diplomas in Business Management from the University of Melbourne and Strategic Innovation from MIT. She is a certified Advisory Board Chair and an Advisory Board member of the Global Council for Business Resilience. She is also an Aspen Institute Fellow.