Summary
Ali Payne is a seasoned people-strategy leader and founder with 20+ years advising organizations from 50 to 50,000 employees on culture, wellbeing, and employee experience. As President & Principal Consultant at AP Consulting, she helps leaders move beyond surface-level perks to build engagement and retention strategies grounded in how employees actually feel at work. Her background includes senior roles at Gallagher and ethOs, and she’s consulted for global brands like BMW and St. Jude, bringing a pragmatic, no-fluff approach that translates people strategy into measurable business outcomes. A Harvard Executive Leadership certificate and advanced degrees in health promotion and exercise physiology inform her evidence-based methods for wellbeing and leadership development. Outside of consulting she’s an endurance athlete and coach—40 marathons, seven Ironman finishes, and USATF Level One certification—which fuels her ethos of pushing limits and practicing what she preaches about sustainable performance. Based in Milwaukee, she combines analytical rigor with a rare emphasis on listening to unheard employee voices to design people strategies that actually stick.
11 years of coding experience
M.S., Health Promotion and Human Resource Management, M.S., Health Promotion and Human Resource Management at Nebraska Methodist College
Executive Leadership Certification, Executive Leadership Certification at Harvard Business School
Bachelor of Science, Exercise Physiology, Bachelor of Science, Exercise Physiology at University of Iowa