Alden is one of Canada’s leading diversity and inclusion strategists and facilitators. He is well known in this field and highly regarded for his over seventeen years of impact, and his innovative work around inclusive leadership, unconscious bias and intercultural training. He specializes in leading men and male leaders through difficult conversations about equity, privilege and the implications and expectations of a more inclusive and diverse workplace.

He works with leadership in a wide range of professions and sectors throughout Canada, including the legal community, social services, the public sector, municipalities, first responders, and large private corporations. Organizations that Alden has helped in developing diversity and inclusion strategies and training include Vancity, First West Credit Union, UBCP ACTRA, Technical Safety BC, Worksafe BC, and YVR. Alden also led the national diversity strategy for the CBC Television Network, and has been lecturing at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism on diversity in media for the last ten years. He currently sits on the Board of the Vancouver Art Gallery.

In 2010, he was appointed by UBC’s President, Stephen Toope, to lead the University's commitment to intercultural understanding, where he was the Director, Intercultural Understanding until the end of 2015, and Senior Advisor, Intercultural Understanding from 2016 to 2017.

At UBC, he has provided intercultural skills development for the UBC Okanagan School of Nursing, the College of Health Sciences, the Masters of Public Policy and Global Affairs Program, the Graduate Program of the Peter A. Allard School of Law, and the Masters of Management and MBA Programs of the Sauder School of Business. He has also provided intercultural skills training to students in the CPA program at the SFU Beedie School of Business.

Alden has lived in Manila, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Regina and Burnaby (in that order), and currently resides in Vancouver with his wife and three sons.