Paula Fenwick

Leadership Expert | Speaker | Author | Culture & Change Specialist

Leadership expert, speaker, and author who helps organisations navigate change with clarity, courage, and humanity. With a background spanning leadership development, organisational culture, and transformation, Paula works with leaders to build trust, resilience, and high-performing teams in complex environments.

Known for her warm yet direct approach, Paula blends research, lived experience, and practical tools to support leaders through uncertainty, growth, and cultural change. Her work focuses on empowering people to lead with authenticity, communicate effectively, and create workplaces where both performance and wellbeing can thrive.

Paula’s sessions are thoughtful, engaging, and highly practical, making her a valued speaker for leadership forums, corporate events, and organisations committed to meaningful change.

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Topics

Talking Points

  • Burnout prevention, recovery, and workplace redesign

  • Mental health in modern workplaces

  • Psychological safety and healthy team cultures

  • Resilient leadership under pressure

  • Wellbeing strategies that create lasting change

  • Human-centred performance systems

  • Why workplace burnout is a systems failure, not an individual flaw

  • The hidden risks of performative wellbeing programs

  • Psychological safety as a driver of performance and trust

  • How leadership behaviours unintentionally create burnout

  • What sustainable high performance actually looks like in practice

  • The mental health conversations leaders can no longer avoid

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Culture & Change Specialist

About Paula

Paula Fenwick is an international keynote speaker, bestselling author, and leadership strategist helping women leaders rise above self-doubt, overcome visibility barriers, and lead with unshakeable confidence, impact, and influence.

She is the author of two best sellers, Bounce Back Fast and More LOVE at Work, and the creator of GrowthEQ Leadership®, a powerful new framework that transforms so-called “soft skills” into the most strategic advantage leaders can develop today: Inner Fitness™.

Paula holds a number of academic qualifications, with over 30 years of experience in corporate leadership and more than a decade on boards. She brings depth, credibility, and heart to every stage she steps on. Known for her engaging style and future-focused perspective, championing the human skills needed to thrive in an AI-driven world.

A dynamic digital creator, Paula has built an expanding global online presence with 5,500+ YouTube subscribers, 1,000+ Instagram followers, and a rapidly growing LinkedIn community. Her videos, talks, and thought-leadership content reach emerging leaders, executives, and organisations across Australia and around the world.

Paula equips leaders with practical tools to:
✔ Reframe the Imposter Story and strengthen confidence
✔ Prevent burnout through emotional resilience and presence
✔ Transform human skills into measurable business results

For Paula, the future of leadership isn’t built on authority alone, it’s built on humanity, powered by inner fitness, and infused with more LOVE at work.

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