Testimonials

I cannot speak highly enough of Paula’s facilitation and more importantly as a leadership mentor.

Jamie Briggs, Managing Partner PwC Adelaide

Paula has the uniqueness of warmth, empathy and is a quick and a sharp thinker. She is able to create a big impact in the room with different audiences. Her strategic, as well as practical view enables deep and insightful discussions. She lives and breathes authenticity, sharpness and warmth

Rainer Schmitz Director Global Talent Management Bacardi

We found Paula’s insights and experience on how our leaders can coach both profound and transformative.

Aidan McGann, Regional Director VicRoads

Under Paula’s mentoring I have a far better understanding of the important of establishing meaningful connections with my team and to engage in conversations that also meet their emotional needs

Damian Armour CEO Epworth Geelong

Her authenticity, sharpness and 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 Business Lead, Mondelez Asia Pacific

Throughout my cooperation with Paula she proved to be an extremely valuable business partner and adviser who made a significant impact in introducing and establishing a coaching culture in Kraft Foods Russia. All in all, this experience proved to be truly transformational with a robust mix of support and challenge

Karen Grigorian Head of HR Mondelez Russia

I have partnered with Paula over many years, in many businesses and across many countries in the Asia Pacific Region. Paula brings a collaborative and insightful approach to her work. Her style is natural and inquisitive: she questions and probes to get to the root cause of issues and does so in a respectful and non-threatening manner that transcends culture and hierarchy.

Katie Hodgson Head of Human Resources, Axieo

‘Paula has worked with our organisation for the past 3 years, both with our Executive Management Team and other Senior Leadership Teams. Paula has tremendous insight into what makes individuals tick through her personal relationship building and profiling tools and how those traits then impact in a team environment. Paula has been able to improve our ability to align our thinking on key topics, which has had a huge impact on the quality of our decision making as a collective. Paula has an incredible ability to read where we are at as a team and what we need to help us bring our best selves to our work.’

Claire Robbs, CEO Life Without Barriers

“Paula has been a trusted partner of GHD for over a decade. In that time her work with our leaders been transformational. Because of her great talents particularly in the coaching domain we have many leaders who actively listen and ask questions instead of providing answers, who support employees and facilitate their team’s development. Her warm and thoughtful style perfectly challenges our leaders and makes our interactions very easy. I unreservedly recommend Paula as a strategic partner in the development of the leadership pipeline at GHD”

Gerard Noone, Chief Learning Officer GHD Professional Services