25+ years. 100,000+ people coached across five continents. Based in Melbourne.
Most leaders are not short on skill or effort. You know how to work hard. You know what good leadership should look like. Your team is probably capable too.
The problem is usually not ability. It is what you cannot see in the way you lead, and in the way your team has learned to operate around you.
You see it in the signs. People agree in the meeting, then do something else. Real issues go unspoken. The same people carry the hard work. Teams protect their own area instead of thinking about the bigger picture. You step in again, because it feels faster than waiting.
Working harder does not shift that. Reading another leadership book does not shift it either. The pattern is hidden in how accountability, communication and ownership actually work in your team.
Leadership coaching unconceals that pattern, so you can change how you lead and create a breakthrough in how the team performs.
Coaching helps you see what is in your way, the part you could not see on your own. That is where the change starts.
Together, we find what is actually shaping your leadership and the team around you. Not the symptoms, the real thing.
Once you see it, you can act on it differently. The change is yours, not a script you have to remember.
It becomes how you lead. It holds because it is not added on from the outside.
When the work lands, the change shows up in how the team operates day to day.
Paul has coached and trained more than 100,000 people across five continents, bringing breakthroughs with CEOs, Olympic athletes, entrepreneurs, academics and leading-edge thinkers.
As a former Landmark Forum Leader, he spent over ten years facilitating transformation for a world leader in professional growth.
His coaching helps you unconceal for yourself what is in the way of your performance, so you are left naturally powerful, effective and productive. Today he partners with founders, CEOs and teams to bring about aligned action and unprecedented results to their performance.
One-to-one coaching that helps you see and change what gets in the way of how you lead, including communication, accountability, ownership and the way your team works together. It is practical, not theory. The work is built around your real situation and the results you are trying to get, not a set program. the full guide to leadership coaching
A leadership coach helps you see the habits, blind spots and team patterns you cannot see on your own. Paul does not hand you a framework to memorise. He listens for what is missing, helps you see for yourself what is holding you back, and works with you to change it for good.
Leadership coaching is about how you lead people and create performance through a team. Executive coaching is for the demands of the top role, where the work is to break through a high level of performance. Many senior leaders need both. Executive Coaching
A mentor shares their own experience. A consultant tells you what to do, and often does it for you. A coach helps you see your situation clearly and find your own way through, so the change is yours and does not depend on someone else being in the room.
No. Therapy looks at your past and your wellbeing. Coaching is about how you lead now and what you want to change from here. It stays focused on your work, your team, and the results you are after.
Most coaching sessions are one-to-one and held online over Zoom. Paul is based in Melbourne and coaches leaders across Melbourne and the rest of Australia this way. If you prefer to work in a group, Paul also offers group sessions. Speak to him about that on the first call.
There is no fixed curriculum. Coaching is designed around what you are dealing with and what you are out to transform. In most cases, it is at least a six-month commitment.
The first step is a short call, usually 30 minutes and sometimes up to 45 minutes. Paul uses it to understand what you do, what you are dealing with, and what you want to transform. On that call, you can also ask about his rates and how he would work with you.
It is a short call, usually 30 minutes and sometimes up to 45 minutes. Paul gets to know what you do, what you are dealing with, and what you are out to transform where you are. You also find out his rates and how he would work with you.
If you are working hard but still carrying too much, if your team avoids the hard conversations, or if agreements keep slipping after meetings, something you cannot see is likely getting in the way. You do not need to have it all worked out before the first call. That is what the call is for.
Founders, executives and senior managers, across small businesses, growing companies and larger organisations. Paul has coached more than 100,000 people across five continents, and is a former Landmark Forum Leader.
Most leadership coaching is one-to-one with you as the leader, because the change starts with how you lead. If you prefer to work in a group, Paul does offer group sessions. Speak to him about that on the first call. If you would like Paul to work with your whole team or organisation directly, that is a separate engagement. See Strategic Design & Delivery.
You will unconceal what works and what does not work about your leadership, and what is limiting you and your team. From there, you find the effective actions that build ownership, accountability, straight communication and a high level of integrity.
