A psychologist by training with a PhD in person-centred healthcare, Galia is an expert on organisational culture. She consults to a number of leading corporate and tertiary organisations on transformational projects, and has worked as a personal advisor to senior leaders and board directors, in some of New Zealand’s leading organisations including Transpower, the Auckland BioEngineering Institue, AUT, AUT Millennium, Fonterra, Orica Chemicals, Genesis Energy, ASB, BNZ, Air New Zealand, Simpson Grierson and within the judiciary.

Galia’s mission is support organisations who strive for positive culture change. Cultures that enable individuals to  achieve vitality through their work.

Galia intimately understands the challenge of living a life full of vitality and wellbeing while dealing with adverse circumstances. Against the odds, she was successfully treated with a combination of chemotherapy and a human-centered approach for a rare, and potentially lethal autoimmune disease. This life-changing experience has led her to complete an award winning PhD on the experiences of people treated in human-centered therapies for chronic conditions.

Galia’s thinking is shaped by her personal and professional experiences and her research expertise. Her consulting and thought leadership are grounded in Positive Psychology and Positive Organisational Scholarship.

She works with organisations to enable positive cultural transformation, something she views as a necessary ingredient in achieving vitality across all of life’s dimensions.

This series of introductory talks and workshops, was designed to bring together her extensive experience in solving complex problems for individuals and organisations, her expertise in designing and facilitating impactful workshops, and her ability to crisply articulate the ‘so what’ from contemporary scientific research. Each talk and workshop is designed as a stand-alone offer to allow organisations to choose what is most relevant to them at any point in time.