Paul spent almost 20 years in the Arabian Gulf and Australasia in the food industry, professional service and NGO sectors in financial and regional leadership. For the past 14 years, he has worked as a coach, mentor and facilitator operating in a broad spectrum of sectors including government, healthcare, aerospace, oil & gas, utilities, telecoms, media & technology.

His deep experience throughout the Middle East region with exposure in Europe and Africa equips him well to work in leadership development and career transition in both large multi-nationals, regional corporations and individual engagements. He has lived/worked predominantly in cities in Australasia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and now operates from Dubai and Melbourne.

Paul’s career began in private accounting practices before moving into the corporate setting with Fonterra. During the 2000s, he went through career shifts that involved IT systems implementation and client-facing pre-sales and eventually coaching. During his initial coaching days, he held a number of voluntary leadership and board positions. His last leadership position was an interim GM posting for a start-up company during COVID. When Paul decided to move his family to Australia in 2023, it created the opportunity for him to join the Impactful Leadership team.

Paul holds a business degree from Massey University and a Chartered Accountant designation with the CAANZ (1995–2023). He is accredited as a Wiley DiSC Consultant, a Five Behaviours of High Performing Team Consultant (2022), an Intercultural Intelligence Practitioner (2019) and Intercultural Coach graduate & Instructor (2020–21). Additionally, Paul is an instructor and coach mentor for an accredited coach training program and is now studying to be an examiner at PCC level in the ICF.

Dane Hudson is the founder of Impactful Leadership. His love of learning, incessant curiosity and 6 years as a consultant, 10 years as a CFO and 22 years as a corporate CEO have culminated in the development of an exhaustive leadership framework. Dane launched Impactful Leadership in 2020. His model centers on the three key pillars a leader must master to build and leave a lasting impact: being disciplined, mastering how to drive change, and being a hands-on and practical operator.

Dane has developed this comprehensive methodology that uniquely includes frameworks, templates and systematised structure that frees the leader to concentrate on their own personal style and lead with impact.