Sally Foley-Lewis
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Sally Foley-Lewis

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Sally Foley-Lewis works with middle managers to be confident, capable and courageous. She gets results. With a leadership development career spanning more than 20 years, she has seen the middle from every angle: reported to, been a middle manager, and a CEO so she’s seen middle management from every angle! She walks the talk!

She is a global award-winning motivational speaker, Hall of Fame educator, and 6 x Author.
The drive to support and skill managers comes from her own senior leadership experiences. Sally delivers keynote presentations and deep programs to skill managers, boost productivity and amplify results.

• 2025 Global Recognition Awards: Leadership Excellence and International Influence
• 2024 Educator Award for Excellence - VSAI
• 2024 Bronze: ROAR Awards – Leadership Award
• 2024 Professional Speakers Australia: National President’s Award for Outstanding Contribution
• 2023 Gold: ROAR Awards – Service Business of the Year
• 2023 Silver: ROAR Awards – Best B2B Business
• 2023 Bronze: International Business Award – Thought Leader of the Year: Business Services
• 2023 Gold: Beam Australia Awards – Emerging Leadership
• 2023 Silver: Asia Pacific Stevie Awards – Thought Leader of the Year
• 2023 Woman to Watch in Management – Women in Biz Global
• 2021 USQ Outstanding Alumnus of the Year – Business and Enterprise
• 2021 Silver ROAR Success Awards – Leadership Award


Consistently named in the Top25 Management Thought Leaders with Thinkers360. Also, named a LinkedIn Top Voice, and Female Entrepreneur of the Year,

Sally has worked with over twenty thousand managers and leaders from medium sized to global organisations in Germany, Middle East, Asia, North America and across Australia. Name an industry and she’s helped mid-levels leaders shine in that industry. Her extensive qualifications; wicked sense of humour, and ability to engage and inspire while making people feel at ease makes her your first choice for your management conference.

If she’s not developing mid-level leaders through her burger framework, she’s walking her rescue dogs and planning her next Camino!

She has authored multiple books:

- The Best Is In The Middle: The 5 key ingredients for high performing middle managers (2024)

- The Middle Matters: Ten Strategies Successful CEOs Use To Lead High-Performing Middle Matters (2023)

- SPARK: 9 Simple Strategies to Ignite Exceptional Self-Leadership (2021)

- DELEGATE: Double the Results! Halve the Effort! (2019)

- Successful Feedback: How Leaders Can Increase Performance, Motivate and Engage Their Team
(2018)

- The Productive Leader: How To Achieve More, Reduce Stress and Gain 2 Hours Per Day (2017)

The Productive Leader received an endorsement from the renowned global personal development guru Brian Tracy.
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