Leadership & Organisational Transformation
Ideas, research and writing about behaviour, transformation and what shapes the way we live and work.
I’ve spent much of my career trying to understand why people behave the way they do, particularly when what we do doesn’t seem to match what we know, intend or say we want.
Sometimes I explore that question through behavioural science and organisational transformation. Sometimes through research. And increasingly, through writing about the experiences, relationships and environments that shape us outside work too.
This is where those different parts of my thinking come together.
INSIGHTS
Ideas I’m thinking and writing about now.
Exploring how behaviour, systems, relationships and the human experience shape the way we live and work.
FEATURED INSIGHT
What behavioural science can teach us about the gap between knowing and doing.
We often assume that if people know what to do, they’ll do it. Behavioural science shows that knowledge is only one part of the puzzle. Our behaviour is shaped by the environments, systems, relationships and contexts we navigate every day.
Knowing is information.
Behaviour
happens in context.
Leadership & Organisational Transformation
Can You Transform One Part of an Organisation Without Changing the Others?
READ THE INSIGHT →Leadership & Organisational Transformation
Why Transformation Fails When We Focus on the Change Instead of the Behaviour
Read the Insight →Becoming & the Human Experience
You Don’t Have to Get Back to Who You Were
Read the Insight →Relationships & Ourselves
Boundaries Aren’t Just About What We Say No To
Read the Insight →Human Systems, Inclusion & Belonging
People Don’t Behave in a Vacuum
Read the Insight →BOOKS
Ideas that needed more space.
My books give me the opportunity to stay with a question for longer, bringing together behavioural science, professional practice, research and lived experience.
BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE & LIVED EXPERIENCE
The Space Between Hope and Fear
How to Keep Moving When Fear Feels Bigger Than Hope
A deeply personal exploration of how fear shapes the way we think, act, and feel, and how hope can create the possibility of continuing to move forward, even when life remains uncertain.
ORGANISATIONAL TRANSFORMATION & INCLUSION
The Strategic Inclusion Playbook
Your Comprehensive Guide to Creating an Inclusive Organization
A practical guide for leaders and organisations who want to move beyond good intentions and create inclusive organisations where people can genuinely contribute, belong and thrive.
RESEARCH
The questions behind the work.
My professional work has always been informed by a curiosity about the relationship between people and the environments around them: how organisational culture influences behaviour, how systems affect the choices available to us, and what people need from their environments in order to participate, contribute and succeed. My academic and independent research has allowed me to examine some of those questions more formally.
DOCTORAL RESEARCH · 2018
Career self-management in clan and hierarchical organisational cultures
Towards the development of a Competing Values Career Self-Management Framework
PhD · Southern Cross University
PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH · 2023
The 8-Inclusion Needs of All People
A Proposed Framework to Address Intersectionality in Efforts to Prevent Discrimination
International Journal of Social Science Research and Review, 6(2), 296–314. DOI 10.47814/ijssrr.v6i2.937
PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH · 2023
Inclusion Needs Through the Lens of Intersectionality
Evidence Supporting The 8-Inclusion Needs of All People Framework
International Journal of Social Science Studies, 11(6), 242–257. DOI 10.11114/ijsss.v11i6.6518
RESEARCH PREPRINT · 2025
Reframing Workplace Inclusion
A Dual-Sample Validation of The 8-Inclusion Needs of All People Framework as a Human-Centered Construct
Preprint. Not peer reviewed.
A NOTE ON AUTHORSHIP
Some of Liz’s earlier academic work, including her doctoral research, was published under her former name, Elizabeth Anne Shoesmith. Her subsequent research has been published as Liz A. Wilson. Both bodies of work are by Dr Liz Wilson.
PODCASTS
Conversations worth having.
I’m often invited to share my thinking on behavioural science, organisational transformation, inclusion and the human experience. These are a few conversations that have explored different parts of that work.
INCLUSION BITES · EPISODE 159
The Science of Workplace Equity
What behavioural science can teach us about systems, culture and making organisational change stick.
COMPASSIONATE ACCOUNTABILITY · EPISODE 54
Practical Implementation of Inclusion for All
Turning behavioural research into practical organisational systems and everyday decisions.
SAFETY LABS · EPISODE 59
How to Enhance Safety Inclusion
How human needs, organisational systems and behavioural design intersect in workplace safety.
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Earlier writing and research.
A collection of earlier articles and research exploring the organisational systems, environments and conditions that influence people’s experiences at work and beyond.
DR LIZ WILSON
Behavioural scientist, organisational transformation expert, author and keynote speaker.
Dr Liz Wilson is a behavioural scientist, organisational transformation expert, author and keynote speaker with more than 20 years’ experience working across organisational behaviour, culture, systems and large-scale change. Her career has spanned senior executive roles, enterprise transformation and the founding of a global consultancy, alongside research into the conditions that shape human behaviour and inclusion. Today, Liz’s work explores a broader question: how do behaviour, systems, environments and lived experience shape what becomes possible for us? She writes and speaks about organisational transformation, leadership, human systems, relationships, behaviour and the often less-than-linear process of becoming.