Building Business Champions
Leigh Paulden creates the clarity and certainty you need to make great decisions, so you can build the best business to work for, the best business to buy from, and the best business to lead.
Leigh is passionate about mid-market business and works with leaders who are seeking a proven framework and expert guidance to improve their performance.
Leigh inspires business champions to:
- Drive and manage growth
- Build capability and stimulate teams
- Achieve scalable and sustainable success
“I understand the factors that influence leaders and business practice. I am passionate about seeing New Zealand businesses succeed, here at home and on the world stage.”
– Leigh Paulden
Leigh’s Qualifications
- GI Certification – Leigh is the only Senior Certified GI Business Consultant in New Zealand
- Outthinker Certification – one of only six Certified Outthinker Growth Strategists in Australasia
- 30+ years of business experience:
- 17 years’ as a business consultant
- 7 years’ as a Gazelles Scaling Up consultant
- 7 years’ Certified in the Four Decisions
- 30+ different industries
Leigh’s Background
From the time Leigh was a teenager, business growth strategy fascinated him. Leigh spent his 20’s in various roles, working in a range of organisations, trying to glean as much as he could. From the warehouse to stock control, logistics, sales, product management, production planning, finance, accounting; you name it and Leigh has been part of it!
By the time he was in his early 30’s, Leigh’s broad range of experience across every part of a business, in various industries, meant he was ready to take on a GM role. It’s here that he learnt about management, capacity and growth. He took a small business to the national stage in just six months and turned it into a multi-million dollar business within 12 months. It quickly became clear to Leigh that he was passionate about and excelled at growing people and business.
Leigh honed his skills by seeking out and immersing himself in the best executive education in the world. He could immediately see what a huge impact he could have in the world of business if NZ businesses started using these proven business strategies at home.
Leigh spent years doing his certifications and immediately after he started working with NZ businesses, his clients could see the benefits in action. Leigh currently works with clients with combined annual revenues of $231m and last financial year, client average growth was 23.2%.
“The best part of my day is seeing my clients’ visions for their business come into reality.”
– Leigh Paulden
Leigh Paulden
" I bring my clients executive education that has been internationally tested and proven to improve business performance. "
Leigh Paulden is an internationally certified business consultant working alongside New Zealand businesses serious about growth.
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WHAT OUR CLIENTS ARE SAYING
Having a robust framework to help develop both strategy and execution is powerful. When that is allied with a knowledgeable, results-focused coach like Leigh Paulden, then you really are set up for success.
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Sam Shosanya, CEO - Paper Plus Group
SSBG brings focus through great systems, however, having Leigh Paulden coach you in the journey just adds so much more breadth & depth to those 'must get right' decisions. I unreservedly recommend him.
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Richard Ball, CEO - Anytime Fitness NZ
Leigh Paulden was there from the very early days of Orbica. He focuses very much on business design, strategic thinking, business expansion and setting yourself up for growth. What I've learned from Leigh is to be bold. Seriously. Be bold and commit to building the right team early on so that you're not fixing things later. It's meant that we've be
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Kurt Janssen, CEO and Founder - Orbica
Implementation of the methods Leigh has introduced is delivering great results profit-wise, and in terms of our business's position and contribution to the marketplace.
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Mark Bishop, General Manager - Active Healthcare
I strongly recommend Leigh and his services to anyone who wants to achieve great growth and take their business to the next level. The value Leigh has added has well and truly outweighed the investment.
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Harvey Fisher, General Manager - Carus Group (2017 Deloitte Fast 50)
Leigh works with myself and my management team to continually challenge our business to continue to grow systematically and profitably.
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Frank van der Velden, CEO - Touchpoint Group
Working with Leigh has had an outstanding impact on our business. We are unlocking the potential within SnapComms and the rate of growth (and everyone’s enjoyment of that growth) has increased dramatically. Highly recommended!
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Sarah Perry , CEO - SnapComms
My CFO and I attended a Scaling Up seminar in September 2014, which we enjoyed greatly, and we immediately saw the benefits of applying these principles to our business. In reading Verne’s book and reviewing the associated materials, we quickly identified that there was a great deal of information to absorb, interpret and apply to our business.We
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Ross Johnson, Managing Director - Global Security
Our Senior Management Team and myself have enjoyed working with Leigh, where we have all been challenged to fully understand the changes in the marketplace, what’s driving them, and how we must position our company to successfully continue to grow profitably in the future.
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Rod Downs, Managing Director - Pacific Hygiene Limited
Leigh is an invaluable partner to our business. He brings high level strategic thinking and wisdom through experience to our company.
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Brendan Sullivan, CEO - Conversion Foundry
I highly recommend Leigh and the Gazelles Rockefeller Habits to any small-medium growth business looking to take their team to the next level.
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Glen Dobbie, Non-Executive Director - Intueri Education Group
Learning and implementing the Rockefeller Habits with Gazelles International tools into Taurus Group has made a huge difference in the clarity of direction, focus on the right priorities, improved communication within the business and faster execution.
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E Wayne Bailey , Director - Taurus Group Limited
