Hi, I’m Alexis, and I’m a tech addict. Social media to be precise.

I’ve spend the last 15 years of my career working across business psychology, marketing and communications, utilizing the very platforms I’m addicted to — to sell things to you. And despite an intimate knowledge of how persuasive marketing and attention hijacking is architecture to sell, I still succumbed to tech addiction myself. Ironic karma?

As a recovering millennial tech addict, I explore identity, attention and authenticity in a digital world that rewards performance over genuine presence. I’ve written my book Real: Reconnecting to Yourself in a World of Likes and Lies from a rare position of proximity: I’ve been shaped by social media in real time, professionally embedded in the industries that fuel it, and academically trained to understand its psychological consequences.

With a Master of Business Psychology and professional background spanning marketing, media, and business psychology, I now help others to understand the influence of social media and technology, and build better, more sustainable, relationships with it — both personally and professionally.

A contributing author to Fast Company, Big Think and Harvard Business Review, I write about about work-life, leadership and social media for major media outlets globally. Alongside this I host the leading Australian-based podcast Live+Work More Human with my brilliant co-host Sally Clarke.

My book Real: Reconnecting to Yourself in a World of Likes and Lies, blends lived experience, psychological research and cultural critique to ask a confronting question: when identity becomes content, metrics replace meaning, and connection drives consumerism—what does it take to feel real again?

Pre-order now via Amazon and Booktopia.