Dr Aleisha Davis, Chief Executive Officer, The Shepherd Centre.

Aleisha joined The Shepherd Centre in 2003 after completing her Masters in Applied Linguistics at Cambridge University in the UK. First joining as a speech pathologist, over the following 12 years she led the clinical teams to implement individual and group programs across 9 centres, through the inter-professional team of Listening & Spoken Language Specialists, Child & Family Counsellors, Early Educators, Researchers & Assessors and Cochlear Implant program in collaboration with the Sydney Children’s Hospital and ENT specialists.

Aleisha led the design and commercial launch of HearHub in 2022, a digital platform to empower hearing healthcare professionals globally. She has worked with hundreds of families and children with hearing loss and was awarded NSW Business Leader and Not-For-Profit Manager of the Year for her leadership in driving innovation and strategic growth of The Shepherd Centre’s programs and model.

Aleisha designed and developed The Functional Listening Index – Paediatric, a tool for tracking a child’s listening development, now used by professionals around the world to enable earlier intervention and informed decisions by families.

Dr Aleisha Davis was appointed Chief Executive Officer of The Shepherd Centre in January 2023.

Aleisha continues to lead a range of collaborative clinical research projects focused on understanding listening, speech, language and literacy development in children with hearing loss, evaluating access to sound through the fitting of hearing aids and other hearing technologies, and outcomes of intervention. She is passionate about driving clinical innovation, sector collaboration, partnerships, and transforming services to strengthen the communication skills of young people with hearing loss in their everyday environments.