Dr Clare Allen
Founder of The Inner Executive System
AI can now out think your leadership team. It cannot hold the room.
That edge, the one that cannot be automated, is presence. And it is built one place: from identity.
Identity Anchoring™ is the neuroscience based methodology that rewires leadership identity at the subconscious level. Not another framework to perform.
For CEOs, C suite executives and leadership teams. Based in Australia, Working Globally.
Check out Clare, on her social media platforms.

A Short Introduction
I was a CEO for thirty years. I ran a $3 billion portfolio. I won the awards, hit the numbers, built organisations.
And for years I performed like a puppet, being quietly robbed of my joy by everyone else's expectations.
Then I stopped.
Now I help senior leaders get the success back, with the joy attached. Because success without joy is not success. It is a very expensive performance.
AI can outthink your leadership team, but it cannot hold the room.
In this video Dr Clare Allen, explores executive presence in leadership and why human leadership skills matter more than ever in the age of AI. She takes you through the programmes she offers for individuals and companies and highlights why she believe 'The Presence Gap', should be placed on the risk register.
Testimonials
“When the student is ready, the teacher appears. Dr Clare Allen came into my life at a time when nothing was adding up. Through the Identity Anchoring programme I experienced a profound shift. My outlook on myself changed, my self-trust deepened, and I moved from living on autopilot to making conscious, informed decisions. This work helped me remember that I matter — and that my self-worth matters. The impact has been truly life-changing.”
— Shivani Seth
“The Identity Anchoring process helped me connect deeply with my values and strengthened my leadership skills. I now lead with clarity, confidence and purpose.”
— Annette Young, Inner Executive Programme
“Clare creates a space that is both safe and challenging, helping you anchor who you are so it shows up consistently in how you think, decide and lead. I gained clarity around my values and strengths, which translated into greater confidence, stronger boundaries and a clearer sense of direction. Thoughtful, intuitive, incisive — I finished feeling more aligned, self-trusting and grounded.”
— Vina Varsani, Executive Coaching
What is really at stake?
What is scarier, staying where you are, or investing in your leadership today?
Your company needs its best leaders right now. AI is rewriting the org chart. The economy is unforgiving. Boards are less patient, stakeholders are louder. This is not the decade to lead on autopilot, performing a version of yourself you have already outgrown.
The cost of not changing is not standing still. It is quiet erosion, of your confidence, your health, your joy, and eventually the edge that got you here in the first place.
Telstra Business woman of the Year
Dr Clare, has won the prestigious Telstra Business woman or the year Award 2007 in WA.
Clare has led an organisation from 2000 clients to 12000 clients and the organisation was one of the highest performers in the country, under her leadership.
Enterprising Woman Award
Winner, of the Chamber of Commerce Industry,
award. Top company growth.
Published in Who's Who of Australian Women
Organisational Awards
Here are a few.:
*Winner, Outstanding Organisation, Community
Services, Hesta Awards
*Winner Organisational Excellence Community Ser-
vIces Award
Published in Extraordinary Women


