Founder, Host, Speaker & Author

Alina Addison is a keynote speaker and trusted advisor to leaders in top tier financial institutions, and one of the few people in the room who sat where you sit.

She became the first person to be promoted to Managing Director and Head of Trading at Rothschild & Co. while working four days a week. During her two decades in global financial markets, while managing multi-million pound trades, she was simultaneously building a hotel in Transylvania from the ground up, because she believed the world needed spaces worthy of the conversations that change leaders. That same refusal to accept the either/or now defines her work.

Alina works with executives and leadership teams who operate where the stakes are high and the margin for error is small. She blends emotional intelligence, neuroscience-informed tools, and hard-won experience from the front lines of finance to help leaders make brave decisions, communicate with precision, and lead in a way that is both bold and deeply human.

She is the author of The Audacity Spectrum and the founder of ADAPTAA. Each spring, she hosts Audacious Leaders Retreats at her boutique hotel in Transylvania, where high performers step away from the noise and into clarity, courage, and reinvention.

Why Leaders Trust Alina

She sat where you sit. The first person promoted to Managing Director and Head of Trading at Rothschild & Co. while working four days a week, at a time when that was simply unimaginable.

She wrote the framework. Author of The Audacity Spectrum and founder of ADAPTAA.

She moves people. Accredited in Emotional Intelligence, mother of a child on the autism spectrum and her greatest teacher in audacity,  she has a rare ability to shift mindsets in a single session, or a single sentence.