Your Leaders shape everything.

Let’s set them up for success.

Paul Matthews works with HR teams and organisations to build leader capability, improve team performance and drive lasting change.

You already know the business case for investing in leadership development. What you need is confidence that the investment will deliver. That the people you put in the room will come out better than when they went in, and that the change will stick long after the program ends.

That’s what Paul delivers. Not theory. No off-the-shelf content. Practical, tailored work built around your organisation’s context, your leaders’ specific challenges and your business goals.

Feeling any of these at the moment?

HR teams typically come to Paul when one or more of these is true:

Managers are technically strong but struggling to lead people effectively.


Managers need to evolve or change in line with a new strategy.


Engagement is low and leaders don’t know how to shift it.


A senior leader or team is misaligned and trust has broken down.


A high potential leader needs support.


You’ve tried training and the change didn’t stick.


You need a credible external partner who can work effectively at every level.

How Paul works with organisations

Every engagement starts with a conversation about what you’re trying to achieve. From there we agree goals and outcomes. Paul designs and delivers the right blend of services to meet your leaders where they are and move them forward.

Coaching cohorts of leaders together. Building shared language, aligned thinking and collective capability across a management team or function. Raising standards and lifting results.

ONE-TO-ONE COACHING

Targeted coaching for individual leaders — from frontline managers to senior executives. Focused on performance, confidence, communication and impact. Qualified executive coach (IECL) with over a decade coaching leaders in large businesses.

GROUP COACHING

Multifaceted programs combining coaching, facilitation and workshops. Designed around your organisation’s goals and built to create better standards and lasting change.

FACILITATION

Facilitation partner identifying relevant problems or gaps and working through them with leaders. Real challenges: alignment, planning, culture, change. Outcome-focused. No wasted time.

LEADER PROGRAMS

Build YOUR business case for growth

WHAT THE RESEARCH SHOWS

Organisations that invest in coaching realise an average 788% return on investment — PWC, 2023.

  • Coaching lifts productivity by 88%.

  • Leadership performance improves by 70%.

  • Some organisations report a business-wide performance increase of 48% after a coaching program is delivered.

DOWNLOAD the ROI of COACHING HERE to help you build your BUSINESS CASE for growing leaders.

“Paul was instrumental in increasing our team engagement score by 21% in just twelve months.”

— Director, NSW Government

Who Paul works with

Paul has worked with leaders and organisations across ports, rail, shipping, utilities, infrastructure, transport, manufacturing, logistics and government, FMCG. His clients include DP World, Illinois Tool Works, Transgrid, Endeavour Energy, NSW Ports, OzHarvest, Ventia, AdInstruments, NSW Government, Canadian Shipping Lines and more.

“Paul invested time to understand the dynamics of the business and our workforce. He was insightful and provided highly effective counsel and coaching.”

— Director of Regulation, Government and Strategy

“Paul brought creative brilliance, strategic coaching and real support to senior leaders.”

— HR Director, Multi-National Logistics Company

“We are so grateful to you for giving us your time and wisdom which has empowered our people leaders enormously.”

— CEO

What you can expect when we meet or work together:

→ A genuine conversation about your challenges and how to solve them

→ Honesty and insights that you might be too close to see

→ A tailored approach built around your context. Not a packaged program

→ Leaders who can create real change from the first session

→ Practical support that reinforces learning and growth between sessions

→ A partner who works at every level: frontline to C-suite.


+25

+1m

Years in large and complex organisations

Helped engage workforces of +1million employees

+21%

Engagement score improved in 12 months


Let’s talk about your leaders.

Most HR teams who book a call leave with more clarity than they expected on what their leaders actually need and what a practical program could look like. It’s 30 minutes. No pitch, no pressure.