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Director / The Change Company
Paul Donovan

Paul founded The Change Company in 1999 with a mission to transform conversations, enabling leaders and their teams to better envision and realize their visions. He specializes in working with senior executive teams, facilitating dialogue that surfaces individual and collective tensions to foster deep learning and more effective decision-making. This approach empowers executive teams to grow and lead their organizations with greater impact.

Paul has delivered coaching, facilitation, and tuition services to a diverse range of clients including Aware Super, Mirvac, Mundipharma Australia, ISPT, Stockland Property Development, Cochlear Australia, IQVIA, Wentworth Community Housing, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Singapore Civil Service, Fresh Hope Communities, Nestle Purina Petcare, the Australian Institute of Management, and TasNetworks,

He earned his Doctorate in Education from the University of Technology Sydney’s Centre for Learning and Change in 2014, focusing his research on the implications of ‘undiscussable’ topics in executive team learning and group decision-making.

Paul has published several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, including: Practicing Power: Undiscussables, Power and HRD (2015), part of an award- winning volume recognized by the Academy of Human Resource Development.

Leaders Behaving Badly: Using power to generate undiscussables in action learning sets (2014, Action Learning Journal). Conference papers and articles exploring conversational patterns and their impact on decision-making in leadership contexts.

Paul is the author of Bosses Behaving Badly How individuals and teams can transform their use of power (2024). He is frequently interviewed on ABC radio and has appeared several times on the Morning Show (Ch7) discussing how to become a better boss.

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Thursday 23 October
10:40 am - 11:20 am
Safety Leadership & Culture Summit Sponsored by Safety Culture
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Paul Donovan
Director
The Change Company
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