About Paula Flynn
About Paula Flynn
Paula Flynn is internationally renowned as The Alchemist of Teams. She has an uncanny ability to free collaborative genius, enabling teams and groups to achieve truly transformational results. For over twenty years, she has achieved tremendous success with Boards of Management, executive teams, line functions, strategic teams and alliances in the world’s highest profile organisations. Her reputation as an incisive, high impact consultant, facilitator and coach has resulted in organisations using her expertise across diverse industries in every continent across the globe.
Paula’s distinctive approach enables teams to embrace dissonance, transform conflict, shift mindsets as well as generate the synergy to coalesce around compelling purpose. Her unique expertise has generated enormous value not only in typical contexts but in situations where collaboration is perceived of as impossible.
She has a huge track record in building leadership capability in complex systems and is renowned for her talent in coaching leaders to shape high performance team cultures. This approach sees leaders modeling a coaching orientation across multiple contexts to accelerate team performance, deepen employee engagement, unleash discretionary effort, build collaborative capability and drive superior value.
Paula’s coaching services have been utilized in a range of areas including the following:
- Building team capability
- Accelerating performance through coaching
- Leading change
- Strengthening executive presence
- Influencing high-value client relationships
- Deepening awareness of self and others and adapting leadership style
To date, Paula’s expertise has been deployed in over forty countries across Australia, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America, the Middle East, and Africa. Paula’s clients have included several public sector and commercial organizations including PwC, DHHS, Kraft Foods, Mondelez International, Fonterra, PZ Cussons, Xero, VFMC, Life Without Barriers, Melbourne University, Monash University, DTF, Victoria’s Public and Private Hospitals, Firmenich, GHD Engineering Services, Clayton Utz, Virgin Australia, Reckitt Benckiser, and Bacardi.
Paula holds an honors degree in education and a master’s degree in educational leadership. She is accredited in numerous coaching and team diagnostics including, CCL, Barrett and Hogan suites, MBTI, LSI, and LI.
“Paula’s authenticity, sharpness, ability to cut through the complexity, and touch the core make her a unique and highly valued partner of our leadership team and organization,” Yuan Meng HR Bus Lead Mondelez AP.”