Alicia King Anderson has a Ph.D. in Mythological Studies and Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute.  Her dissertation on The Storyteller Archetype explores the responsibilities of storytellers. She was particularly struck by the healing functions of storytelling that were made very clear in her research.  Her areas of interest include trauma, burnout, fairy tales (particularly fairy tale retellings), mythology retellings, as well as archetypal symbols.

After nearly twenty years as an expert in organic search and digital marketing, Alicia is leveraging her experience as a marketer and a manager to help others navigate burnout in a novel way.  

She offers workshops, 1:1 coaching, as well as on-demand online courses in addition to a book on achieving lasting burnout recovery.  She focuses upon an eco-psychological metaphor for the burnout cycle, and uses that as a roadmap for creating sustainable, lasting change following either professional burnout, autistic burnout, or both. This metaphor is how she successfully navigated her own long burnout recovery journey. Because it is rooted in the natural world, it is beautiful and full of hope.    

With almost a decade of experience as a people manager at huge publicly traded corporations and small privately-owned business, she also understands the challenges faced by business leadership when it comes to burnout prevention. 

An accomplished public speaker, her training and instruction style is collaborative, convivial, and memorable.  Her teaching creates lasting change for students – whether she’s discussing complicated technological concepts or teaching a course on Morbid Anatomy about unicorns.  As a long time student of information architecture and instructional design, she focuses on making her courses tactical and actionable.    

She has spoken at conferences including SuperNova South and the Napa Summit on topics related to organic search optimization, as well as a number of academic conferences.

For more information about Alicia, her personal website is available here.   The LinkedIn page for these courses is also available.