Bill McAlpine

Bill McAlpine is a performance coach, keynote speaker, and facilitator with more than 25 years of experience supporting executives and organizations in leadership development, executive coaching, and organizational performance. McAlpine has held leadership roles with Fortune 500 companies including SuperValu, Kraft Foods, and Dell Inc., developing expertise in operations, sales, and human resources. As a performance coach and keynote speaker, he combines corporate leadership experience with practical coaching insight in each engagement. McAlpine serves as an executive performance coach and senior advisor at Evolve Leadership, collaborating with leadership teams and organizations on science-based strategies for peak performance and sustainable success.

A significant chapter of McAlpine's career includes his tenure as a performance coach for the Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute, known for the "Corporate Athlete" training program. This work, rooted in performance psychology, exercise physiology, and nutrition, has enabled McAlpine to coach thousands of leaders and executives on managing personal energy for sustained high performance. He also developed "Core Performance," a learning framework focused on managing human energy across four interdependent dimensions to help individuals perform optimally during critical moments. His client portfolio includes organizations such as Estée Lauder, PwC, UBS, Prudential, Oracle, McKinsey, Marriott, and agencies including the FBI, CIA, and NSA.

McAlpine holds certifications in Polarity Management, Situational Leadership, Myers-Briggs, and DiSC, and has trained leaders and individual contributors on leadership skills, negotiations, presentation design, and human resources strategy. In addition to his work in executive coaching and leadership development, he is a nationally published cartoonist who contributed regularly to King Feature Syndicate's New Breed comic strip, illustrated "Care Packages for the Workplace" by Barbara Glanz, and authored the booklet "The Fuse is Lit." A former competitive USCF road cyclist and musician, McAlpine applies the discipline and mindset of an athlete to his work, emphasizing performance, energy management, and purposeful living.