Dr. Alia Bojilova is a psychologist, author, and one of the world's leading experts on human capacity under pressure. As the former Lead Psychologist for the New Zealand Special Air Service (NZSAS), she was responsible for selecting, training, and developing the nation's most elite soldiers, work that took her to operational theatres from Afghanistan to Syria, where she led her team through a hostage situation and earned a United Nations Commendation for leadership.

With a PhD in Resilience and decades of experience working with elite forces, Olympic athletes, and high-growth founders, Alia has spent her career studying what humans are truly capable of in extreme environments, and what unlocks or wastes that capacity. She is the author of The Resilience Toolkit, creator of the ABCD model (Awareness, Belonging, Curiosity, Drive), and an Operating Partner at Movac, New Zealand's most experienced venture capital firm, where she builds high-performance cultures for the country's most promising tech companies.

Alia has been featured in M2, Wilderness, and leading podcasts worldwide. She is a sought-after keynote speaker, known for her grounded, provocative, and unflinching approach to leadership, performance, and the psychology of human capacity.

Her life's work is built on a single belief: we are capable of far more than we realise, and she's spent her career proving it.