Highly collaborative relationship-builder with national and international teams
Collaboration
Ali has ten years of experience working at Apple to drive collaboration between inside Apple teams and external partner teams. She has a strong reputation for success in multi-stakeholder collaboration with international, cross-functional teams. She has demonstrated exceptional business acumen while partnering closely with Operations, Finance, Legal, Marketing, and Business teams to help stakeholders align and achieve success in common goals.
Success
Ali has successfully led teams, collaborated with partners inside and outside of Apple, in strategic communications and training, in 22 countries.
Business Acumen
Ali has worked behind the scenes, as well as in the spotlight to build relationships across the company, demonstrating keen business acumen and sales knowledge, while collaborating with Zero Waste, Environmental Initiatives, Operations, Finance, Legal, Marketing, and Business teams.
Feedback from Colleagues
“I love generating ideas with you in the early stages of design, since you don’t send roadblocks during that earliest stage of design when openness and creativity are most important. You have always been solution-focused, not problem-focused. It’s always such a pleasure to collaborate with you.”
—Arthur Gjika, Apple Enterprise Trainer, Worldwide Enterprise Training and Enablement
Ali’s Role
As Worldwide Government Lead, Training and Programs, Ali has led strategic communications globally. She coordinated trainer readiness for the US B2B Channel/Enterprise Training team throughout the United States, and created solutions that were adopted by teams throughout Canada, EMEA, APAC, and ANZ.
Managed projects with rapid prototyping, design and review cycles for business and marketing content creation, and made decisions with 80% information to successfully navigate rapidly changing conditions.
Collaborated closely with program managers, Field Marketing and Business Markets teams, to align training preparation, execution, and evaluation, with reporting, sales KPI, and go-to-market strategy.
Helped hire and manage a team of career experience employees to double the output of her team’s productivity.
Feedback from Colleagues
“Had to share this with you.
You are brilliant at designing elegant learning experiences. You’re also a master at telling a compelling story to get people on board with your designs. You listen patiently and intently for peer and SME feedback and are able to incorporate that into your considerations. It’s rare to find someone who has mastery over the hard skills and soft skills like you do. I suspect this isn’t simply your gift, but a result of disciplined learning and practice. We’re lucky to have you doing this work for us. Thank you.”
—Rustin Crawford, Apple Program Manager, US Enterprise Channel–Seller Experience
Environmental Leadership
As a core member of the leadership team for the AppleEarth employee environment club, Ali coordinated six tree planting events with the Sierra Club, Canopy, Santa Cruz Land Trust, Our City Forest, Friends of the Urban Forest, and the Turtle Island Restoration Network, engaged 75 volunteer Apple employees, and together planted 827 trees, and cleared 200 yards of invasive species.
Leading Cooperative Teams
AppleEarth Tree Planting Events
See the After Action Review reporting on the results of the tree planting events that Ali coordinated with the AppleEarth environment club.*
*These are volunteers who do not represent Apple.
Land Trust of Santa Cruz Tree Planting Mini Documentary
As a volunteer on the core leadership team of the AppleEarth club*, Ali Weller coordinated six tree planting events with several reputable conservation organizations, including the Santa Cruz Land Trust. This mini documentary includes interviews with leadership staff of the Santa Cruz Land Trust at the event coordinated with them in January, 2020.
*These are volunteers who do not represent Apple.