Unlock Your Potential With Soul Speaker Alison Weihe
Powerful storytellers, global speakers and thought leaders on the power of identity allowed Alison to understand the power of changing people’s lives from the stage to the page. This changed the trajectory of Alison’s life at 60 years old. She came to realize that she was primarily a storyteller with a profound message of global reconciliation.
Winning the 2021 Professional Speaking Association of Southern Africa (PSASA) Speaker Factor competition confirmed Alison’s belief that she had a calling to help others through the power of storytelling. Her keynote speeches focus on her awakening to become a political activist, her rollercoaster-ride journey of entrepreneurship, and many other topics including manifestation, the power of personal branding, envisioning your future self, Identity Intelligence™ and belonging.
Alison speaks about her own lived experiences. She crafts stories that resonate deeply with her audience. She speaks about the tragedies and triumphs of her 26-year entrepreneurial journey. Refreshingly, she does so using captivating stories and not statistics. She is passionate about using the power of storytelling to shift human consciousness. Alison believes in the power of mindset to drive transformation and reinvention.
As a nominee in the Woman Of Stature Awards 2025, Alison has a deep desire to assist young entrepreneurs in developing their voices as thought leaders and game-changers. Her long journey as a political activist, journalist, change management consultant, entrepreneur, coach, speaker and writer has afforded her a unique window into the South African landscape.
By sharing her vulnerable story of finding her identity, Alison inspires her audience to take action and step into the light of who they were truly meant to be.
Alison is known as a “Soul Speaker” and has recently been acknowledged as a “Global Speaker, making a difference” by USA Today. This is an affirmation of Alison’s growing voice and global impact.
Storyteller | Keynote Speaker
Keynotes & Talks That Radically Transform Lives
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In this powerful keynote, Alison explores the power of identity versus the myth of goal setting. Identity intelligence is the super fuel of manifestation. Alison takes you on a lived journey of how she transformed her life at 52 following a devastating internal fraud within her company. She explains in detail how the fraud became her greatest gift as she embarked on a whole new journey of understanding the power of identity.
Alison's health journey is nothing short of miraculous. In her mid-60s, she looks younger than she did at 52. She lives a life of intense purpose and meaning as part of her approach to conscious leadership. Eating consciously and moving purposefully allows her to live a life of peak performance. Having battled extreme emotional eating, yo-yo dieting, and eating disorders, Alison is now an inspirational ambassador for integrated living. She says, “I have changed not just the shape of my body, but the shape of my soul”.
Alison has studied extensively the nutrition of metabolic chemistry. She unpacks the science of nutrition for peak performance and the paralysis of being ruled by diets and the scale. She is a powerful example of someone who has not weighed herself for 8 long years, because her identity is based not on weight, but on the strength of who she has become.
This is an incredibly inspiring keynote, which allows the audience to journey with her on the evolution of identity-awareness, and the mastery of literally living “Atomic Habits”.
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In this keynote, Alison shares the profound process she has developed over the past four years, to deliver powerful keynotes or messages. Known as a Soul Speaker, Alison provides a step-by-step roadmap as a template for creating powerful and impactful speeches or presentations. Whether it is a competition short talk or a longer 45-minute keynote. Alison's detailed process of focusing both on the sculpting of the message, as well as the essence of powerful delivery, allows both emerging speakers and established speakers, to refine their craft for maximum attention, impact and legacy.
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Alison and her business partner in the Mindset Development Institute, Jabu Zwane, delivered this keynote at a Global Writers' Summit in Las Vegas in 2024, where they received a standing ovation. This presentation uncovers the journey of two people who came from different worlds to live a joint calling to make a difference in an often-divided world.
Alison shares her journey of political awakening as a young woman growing up in Apartheid South Africa. She documents with visual sensitivity how her life was shaped by becoming a political activist in the anti-apartheid movement for almost 20 years. She credits many of the remarkable leaders of that time for the collaborative approach she was in leadership and for the work ethic that she embraces as a serial entrepreneur and philanthropist.
Growing up in a slightly different era, Jabu poignantly shares his experiences of growing up in an impoverished township in South Africa. He tells how his life was shaped by the harsh realities he faced daily in growing up alongside complex and crippling family dynamics.
When these two remarkable speakers' journeys intersected, it somehow made sense of their challenging journeys. It highlights the lessons it holds, both for South Africa and for a global world, so full of polarization and positioning. This powerful keynote focuses on our common humanity and the need for greater tolerance and understanding in a world that has often lost the ability to build dialogue and reconciliation.
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In this keynote, Alison emphasizes the importance of first impressions as entrepreneurs, as philanthropists, and as speakers and writers wanting to leave a legacy of contribution.
As a speaker, it takes less than three seconds for the audience to form an impression of you as you make your way to the stage, be it virtual, be it real life, or be it on the page. The Power of First Impressions is the power of lasting impressions. As a serial entrepreneur, Alison realized very early on the power of branding – whilst building up a company from humble beginnings in a shed on a field, to building up an award-winning company employing 150 people, winning numerous awards and being featured on radio, television, and in magazines.
Alison unpacks, through powerful storytelling, just how she has shaped the brands she lives in and why professionalism and soulfulness is at the kernel of everything she creates. Alison tailors this presentation to the needs of the audience she serves, so that the wisdom can be packaged for the immediate needs and challenges that organizations or individuals are facing. Visual storytelling powerfully captures the evolution of the seemingly impossible to the powerfully tangible.
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In this presentation, Alison documents through visual storytelling how she built a brand as a woman leader in the construction industry, against all odds, from a shed on a field to an award-winning company being featured on radio, television and in entrepreneur magazines.
She deals with the realities of starting a company against all odds, and the lessons her 26-year journey of entrepreneurship has revealed. She shares the values that shape building a what she calls a Soul Brand. Above all, she focuses on what it takes to build Entrepreneurial Mindsets and the importance of financial discipline, in developing a brand of service and legacy.
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In this presentation, Alison unpacks, through powerful visual storytelling, how she found her true identity in her 60s, and how that journey shaped her fascination with what she calls Identity Intelligence™.
It was powerful storytellers on the global stage that whispered to Alison that she did indeed have an incredible story to tell, she had the courage to share it in a deeply vulnerable way.
In this talk, Alison shares how, as a political activist, she wanted to change the world, but she wanted to stay invisible, not in the front lines.
As an entrepreneur, she became more visible, but she still battled severe imposter syndrome, despite the company winning awards and being featured on radio, television, and in magazines.
It was only when she became a vulnerable storyteller that she finally felt congruent and whole. It was only then that she finally felt that she belonged. This was what she had been called to do in the world – to be a voice for hope and healing through powerful storytelling.
This talk can be tailored for different audiences based on their needs and their environment. It unlocks the power of Identity Intelligence™ and how that builds belonging, so that you can become an unstoppable force of contribution in a world that needs voices of impact.
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This talk unpacks the science of prospection, the art and science of visioning your future self. It draws on the thought leadership of many different analysts and researchers, including Dr. Benjamin Hardy, Dr. Joe Dispenza, John Assaraf, Regan H Hillyer, Dr. David Hawkins and many others on the power of manifestation.
Allison unpacks a powerful model of manifestation that she has developed over many years, through both her thought leadership and her lived experience. This presentation unpacks not just the power of living “Atomic Habits”, but the power of Identity Intelligence™. She embraces why a 10x vision is easier than a 2x perspective, because it forces one to shape a different trajectory that is neither linear nor one-dimensional.
Drawing on her extensive experience as a serial entrepreneur, building up different brands, Alison gives audiences an exciting glimpse into the future – the future of becoming more than they could have ever anticipated through the power of exponential vision and identity for the future.
What are you waiting for?
Elevate your event with a speaker who not only inspires but ignites real transformation. Alison Weihe delivers impactful, thought-provoking content that empowers individuals and teams to unlock their full potential through Identity Intelligence™.
From conferences and corporate events to workshops and facilitation sessions, Alison’s expertise will leave a lasting impression and drive meaningful change.
Don't settle for an ordinary event—make it extraordinary. Book Alison today and give your audience an experience they won’t forget.
The Professional Speakers Association of Southern Africa (PSASA) | Johannesburg Chapter
The PSASA is a community committed to learning and growing, and sharing ideas with a greater audience. I consider myself incredibly fortunate to be an active part of the PSASA community as it is a real catalyst toward my learning and growth as a speaker, entrepreneur and writer.