Padraig OSullivan

Padraig’s reputation as a leading international business consulting executive coach has been established with over twelve years’ leadership and coaching experience encompassing Australia, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Insight publishing have labelled him “one of Asia’s top leadership experts”.

Harnessing solid, global business acumen and entrepreneurial thinking, Padraig exhibits and delivers the critical understanding, character, expertise and hands on strategies required to ensure his clients achieve their transition and transformation goals.

With organisational based clients he partners them to develop or change their organisational cultures. His expertise includes providing frameworks and knowledge to guide process, practical expertise in stakeholder engagement, program development, plan development and implementation.

His work with Executive teams includes newly formed or reformatted teams to guide them from current status to a high performing team. He is a contributor to the upcoming book, “Leadership team coaching in action”, 2013.

At an individual levee works with CEOs, Managing Directors, Regional Heads and other senior level executives. Typical assignments include supporting leaders in transition; usually from functional management to company leadership; leadership effectiveness; and supporting clients in stretch roles.

His notable client base and success stories confirm his dedication to achieving results. According to clients, actualisation and implementation of the ‘plans of action’ developed in their work together are the pathways to success. This is supported by Padraig’s pragmatic but entirely human approach. His colleagues here at The Edge Partnership would state that another key element of Padraig’s success is his ‘good old Irish sense of humour’.

He has been published in a range of academic journals and is the published co-author of “Leadership: Helping Others to Succeed”; His new book, “Expats downunder, how to lead successfully in Australia”, is being released in 2013. Padraig is a sought after industry Keynote speaker and conference presenter. He teaches at Sydney Business School on the Masters of Business Coaching degree, specialising in Innovation and Business Change and Developing High Performing Teams and Organisations in 2014.

Padraig is the co-founder and Managing Partner of The Edge Partnership and was previously, Managing Director of Praesta Australia a