About Us
Meet our amazing team who are dedicated to creating an exceptional experience for you. We are always looking for ways to make sure you get the most from every learning journey.
About Us
Meet our amazing team who are dedicated to creating an exceptional experience for you. We are always looking for ways to make sure you get the most from every learning journey.
About Us
Meet our amazing team who are dedicated to creating an exceptional experience for you. We are always looking for ways to make sure you get the most from every learning journey.
Meet
Tony and Paula
Hello! Thanks for checking out our page. We are the co-founders of Liberated Leaders. Our work supports leaders and their teams to achieve goals together.
Over the past 25 years we have worked with literally thousands of leaders to change the way they think about themselves and the way they perceive what’s possible in leadership and life.
We believe that these modern times challenge leaders to become great learners again, to respectfully challenge the status quo and create conditions for their people to thrive.
If you’re up for creating a world where you and your people can flourish and where innovation is really happening, let’s connect.
Meet
Tony and Paula
Hello! Thanks for checking out our page. We are the co-founders of Liberated Leaders. Our work supports leaders and their teams to achieve goals together.
Over the past 25 years we have worked with literally thousands of leaders to change the way they think about themselves and the way they perceive what’s possible in leadership and life.
We believe that these modern times challenge leaders to become great learners again, to respectfully challenge the status quo and create conditions for their people to thrive.
If you’re up for creating a world where you and your people can flourish and where innovation is really happening, let’s connect.
The Liberated Leaders Story
Liberated Leaders began in 2017 as an extension of our busy consultancy practice, Resource Advisory. We realised we could do more for the leaders we were working with to elevate their skills and practices and have their organisations be ‘future ready’.
Many leaders we worked with, despite being technically excellent, lacked core competencies in the domains of interpersonal communication and that translated to poor team relationships and sub-standard results.
What could leaders achieve if they could complement their technical expertise with skills and practices that truly enabled the teams around them?
We’d love you to join our community of change-makers!
Vision
We have the courage and capability to influence better outcomes – for all people and the planet.
Mission
To help leaders re-invent themselves, their teams and their businesses by building new skills and practices so that they can adapt and thrive through growth, change and disruption.
Values
Courage
Authenticity
Connection
Outrageousness
Wisdom
Vision
We have the courage and capability to influence better outcomes – for all people and the planet.
Mission
To help leaders re-invent themselves, their teams and their businesses by building new skills and practices so that they can adapt and thrive through growth, change and disruption.
Values
Courage
Authenticity
Connection
Outrageousness
Wisdom
Meet the
Team
Tony Carew
Co-founder and Coach
Tony is one of the world’s leading Coaching and Facilitation practitioners with a unique focus on the domain of ontology. He supports people through critical enquiries into how they ‘show up’ as a leader. He draws on a rich life experience and background as an actor, chef, professional in the domain of psychological injury and human resources and his work with the prestigious Newfield Institute in Australia where he trains Coaches and Mentors.
Tony Carew
Qualifications
- ‘Dwelling Program’ - Exploring the Ontology of Human Interaction (Pluralistic Networks, USA)
- ‘Power, Wisdom and Serenity’ - Generative Ontology (Pluralistic Networks, USA)
- ‘Power and Wisdom’ – Generative Ontology (Pluralistic Networks, USA)
- Working Effectively in Small Teams (Pluralistic Networks, USA)
- Graduate Diploma in Ontological Coaching through the Ontological Coaching Institute.
- Associate Diploma Performing Arts (Darwin Institute of Technology)
- Advanced Ontological Practitioner programs (Eriksonian, Conversational Technology, Somatic Coaching, Commitment-based Management)
- Unitary Epistemology – Cultural Biology (Matrixica Institute, Chile)
About Tony
As a Director of Resource Advisory and Co-founder of Liberated Leaders, Tony's mastery lies in Executive intervention-based facilitation, mediation, coaching and mentoring. His programs are designed for Executive and Senior leaders and teams who must transform their perspectives and behaviours to stay relevant, viable and aligned. Tony's engagement approach is a skilful blend of care and provocation, essential for uncovering new possibilities and instigating the necessary changes in Executive leaders and teams.
During the past two decades, he has rounded his expertise in the cultural change and transformation arena. Tony is skilled in coaching individuals and teams to navigate complex power and political dynamics to achieve strategic objectives. His areas of mastery include personal and organisational transformation, strategy development, effective communication, relationship-building, and driving team outcomes through commitments.
Tony is known for developing lasting relationships with the people who engage him. This means that better outcomes are achieved over time where he has the opportunity to be engaged as coach, team coach and facilitator to achieve lasting cultural change. He has worked inside some of Australia's largest corporations, including Telstra and Lendlease and coached people from companies such as Goldman Sachs, Macquarie and Fortesque Future Industries. Equally, in this time, he has extensive experience working within various sectors, including government, health, construction and not-for-profit with a client base that includes Healthscope, Transport for NSW and St George Community Housing.
Tony's approach to transformation is grounded in biological science and existential philosophy. He was previously a coach-trainer with the Ontological Coaching Institute, a prestigious coach-training Institute within the Asian Pacific region, and a 7-year student of Dr Fernando Flores studying generative Ontology.
Tony's life history and varied sector exposure deeply enriches his facilitation, coaching and mentoring practice. He brings his early history in the arts to his design capabilities and deep care for clients.
In his spare time, is dedicated to adventuring through travel, learning, time in the wilderness and on the sea, and culinary arts.
Tony Carew
Qualifications
- ‘Dwelling Program’ - Exploring the Ontology of Human Interaction (Pluralistic Networks, USA)
- ‘Power, Wisdom and Serenity’ - Generative Ontology (Pluralistic Networks, USA)
- ‘Power and Wisdom’ – Generative Ontology (Pluralistic Networks, USA)
- Working Effectively in Small Teams (Pluralistic Networks, USA)
- Graduate Diploma in Ontological Coaching through the Ontological Coaching Institute.
- Associate Diploma Performing Arts (Darwin Institute of Technology)
- Advanced Ontological Practitioner programs (Eriksonian, Conversational Technology, Somatic Coaching, Commitment-based Management)
- Unitary Epistemology – Cultural Biology (Matrixica Institute, Chile)
About Tony
As a Director of Resource Advisory and Co-founder of Liberated Leaders, Tony's mastery lies in Executive intervention-based facilitation, mediation, coaching and mentoring. His programs are designed for Executive and Senior leaders and teams who must transform their perspectives and behaviours to stay relevant, viable and aligned. Tony's engagement approach is a skilful blend of care and provocation, essential for uncovering new possibilities and instigating the necessary changes in Executive leaders and teams.
During the past two decades, he has rounded his expertise in the cultural change and transformation arena. Tony is skilled in coaching individuals and teams to navigate complex power and political dynamics to achieve strategic objectives. His areas of mastery include personal and organisational transformation, strategy development, effective communication, relationship-building, and driving team outcomes through commitments.
Tony is known for developing lasting relationships with the people who engage him. This means that better outcomes are achieved over time where he has the opportunity to be engaged as coach, team coach and facilitator to achieve lasting cultural change. He has worked inside some of Australia's largest corporations, including Telstra and Lendlease and coached people from companies such as Goldman Sachs, Macquarie and Fortesque Future Industries. Equally, in this time, he has extensive experience working within various sectors, including government, health, construction and not-for-profit with a client base that includes Healthscope, Transport for NSW and St George Community Housing.
Tony's approach to transformation is grounded in biological science and existential philosophy. He was previously a coach-trainer with the Ontological Coaching Institute, a prestigious coach-training Institute within the Asian Pacific region, and a 7-year student of Dr Fernando Flores studying generative Ontology.
Tony's life history and varied sector exposure deeply enriches his facilitation, coaching and mentoring practice. He brings his early history in the arts to his design capabilities and deep care for clients.
In his spare time, is dedicated to adventuring through travel, learning, time in the wilderness and on the sea, and culinary arts.
Paula Drayton
Co-founder and Coach
Paula is a revered Facilitator, Master Trainer and Master Coach with expertise in communication and behaviour change. She is naturally strategic and loves working with leaders as they grapple with complexity in fast moving environments. After a successful early career in professional services, Paula began her consultancy Resource Advisory, delivering transformation outcomes to major clients for more than a decade.
Paula Drayton
Qualifications
- Certified Master Coach (Behavioural Coaching Institute)
- Certified Master Trainer in Crucial Conversations (Vital Smarts)
- Master of Education in Adult Education (University of Technology, Sydney)
- Bachelor Arts (Tourism Management) (University of Technology, Sydney)
- Accredited Influencer, Accountability and Change Anything Trainer (Vital Smarts)
- People Centred Implementation (PCI) Practitioner (Changefirst)
- Theory U Graduate (Presencing Institute)
- Accredited Passion Map Facilitator (Passion Maps)
Paula is a Master Trainer, Facilitator, Change Consultant, Certified Master Coach, Passion Coach, Business Owner and experienced business Consultant. As Founder and Director of Resource Advisory and Co-founder of Liberated Leaders she has extensive experience helping individuals and organisations express and achieve their potential, using her humanistic approach and globally sourced toolkit to engage and enable learners, teams, and groups.
As a Consultant, Facilitator and Coach, Paula has worked with multi-national organisations, ASX listed Companies, Federal, State and Local Government, small and medium sized enterprises, and industry associations, building valuable cross-sector experience to her engagements.
Prior to establishing Resource Advisory in 2007, Paula held senior management positions within the environmental management industry, specialising in communications, marketing, education, and behaviour change. Her professional experience is diverse and includes consultant and management roles with Professional Services Firms Ernst & Young and Andersen, Colliers International, Gallup, Brambles (Cleanaway) and Tourism Australia.
In her 16 years at Resource Advisory, she has worked on more than 120 client engagements across sectors working to achieve business outcomes in times of change and disruption. Her work blends individual leader development for senior personnel, team coaching to embed practices, innovative program design and change approaches that build capacity and capability for sustained outcomes.
Paula’s specialist skills in behaviour change, learning design and conversational practices are instrumental in Resource Advisory’s change and transformation offers. She possesses the ability to apply innovative approaches, solve complex problems, build capacity with her clients and stakeholders, and drive accountability.
Paula is a skilled presenter and capable of working with mixed audiences, difficult moods and powerful personalities to achieve outcomes. Her unique skill is engaging those in the room through reflection, appreciative and critical enquiry about topics at hand.
Paula is especially passionate about sustainability and has chaired events at Ecoforum, Sustainable Transformation and Liveable Cities conferences.
Paula Drayton
Qualifications
- Certified Master Coach (Behavioural Coaching Institute)
- Certified Master Trainer in Crucial Conversations (Vital Smarts)
- Master of Education in Adult Education (University of Technology, Sydney)
- Bachelor Arts (Tourism Management) (University of Technology, Sydney)
- Accredited Influencer, Accountability and Change Anything Trainer (Vital Smarts)
- People Centred Implementation (PCI) Practitioner (Changefirst)
- Theory U Graduate (Presencing Institute)
- Accredited Passion Map Facilitator (Passion Maps)
Paula is a Master Trainer, Facilitator, Change Consultant, Certified Master Coach, Passion Coach, Business Owner and experienced business Consultant. As Founder and Director of Resource Advisory and Co-founder of Liberated Leaders she has extensive experience helping individuals and organisations express and achieve their potential, using her humanistic approach and globally sourced toolkit to engage and enable learners, teams, and groups.
As a Consultant, Facilitator and Coach, Paula has worked with multi-national organisations, ASX listed Companies, Federal, State and Local Government, small and medium sized enterprises, and industry associations, building valuable cross-sector experience to her engagements.
Prior to establishing Resource Advisory in 2007, Paula held senior management positions within the environmental management industry, specialising in communications, marketing, education, and behaviour change. Her professional experience is diverse and includes consultant and management roles with Professional Services Firms Ernst & Young and Andersen, Colliers International, Gallup, Brambles (Cleanaway) and Tourism Australia.
In her 16 years at Resource Advisory, she has worked on more than 120 client engagements across sectors working to achieve business outcomes in times of change and disruption. Her work blends individual leader development for senior personnel, team coaching to embed practices, innovative program design and change approaches that build capacity and capability for sustained outcomes.
Paula’s specialist skills in behaviour change, learning design and conversational practices are instrumental in Resource Advisory’s change and transformation offers. She possesses the ability to apply innovative approaches, solve complex problems, build capacity with her clients and stakeholders, and drive accountability.
Paula is a skilled presenter and capable of working with mixed audiences, difficult moods and powerful personalities to achieve outcomes. Her unique skill is engaging those in the room through reflection, appreciative and critical enquiry about topics at hand.
Paula is especially passionate about sustainability and has chaired events at Ecoforum, Sustainable Transformation and Liveable Cities conferences.
Chloe Drayton
Business Manager
Costanza Chittaro
Business & Engagement Coordinator
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