Fix the leadership problems blocking progress
We help senior leaders resolve the influence, alignment and decision-making problems that stall their organisations.
Most leadership doesn't fail because of strategy. It breaks under pressure. Yours doesn’t have to.
We restore leadership coherence - repairing the human leadership system so authority, decisions and culture move together and strategy executes cleanly under pressure.
LEADERSHIP RECALIBRATION
Under sustained pressure, leadership systems begin to drift.
- Authority stretches or collapses.
- Judgement narrows.
- Influence compensates.
- Culture absorbs strain long before performance visibly drops.
When drift takes hold, the symptoms are visible:
- decisions slow
- influence fractures
- culture slips
- teams lose momentum
- execution stalls despite effort
These are not isolated problems.
They are signals that integration within the human leadership system is weakening.
Leadership Recalibration™ intervenes where authority, judgement and system conditions intersect - correcting drift at its source and restoring continual integration.
Integration is not a fixed state.
As pressure rises, it must be continually recalibrated.
This is not coaching.
It is not training.
It is not traditional consultancy.
It is structural leadership recalibration - disciplined intervention that restores and sustains coherence so strategy executes when it matters most.
Why leadership breaks
Leadership doesn’t collapse because people forget how to lead.
It fractures when systemic distortion takes hold – when truth bends, behaviour drifts, and culture quietly pushes against progress.
Pressure doesn’t create the problem.
It reveals where integration was already weakening.
Decisions lose integrity.
Teams pull in different directions.
Execution stalls.
Most call this a leadership problem.
It isn’t.
It’s a coherence failure.
And coherence cannot be coached into existence.
It must be structurally recalibrated.
The Maverick Paradox is the first and only Leadership Recalibration Practice™ – a structural discipline working at the level where leadership coherence either holds or fractures under pressure.
WHERE IS LEADERSHIP UNDER STRAIN?OUR CLIENTS
When coherence is restored, this is what leaders experience
Recalibration doesn’t add noise.
It restores structural clarity.
Leaders report sharper judgement, cleaner communication, and renewed movement under pressure.
"As a result of the work we have done together, I have had some potentially career defining “light bulb” moments as well as some practical, realistic strategies for the here and now" - Kirsty Goulding, Associate HR Director, University of Greenwich
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“Judith has a remarkable ability to take complex topics and communicate them with clarity, empathy, and impact. Our management team left more capable and confident” - Mark Pavlika, Chief People and Purpose Office, Bicycle London
What transformation feels like in practice
IN THE PRIVATE, PUBLIC & THIRD SECTORSTRUSTED BY LEADERS
Recognised for restoring leadership coherence
The Maverick Paradox is internationally recognised for its work in leadership, culture, and organisational performance - particularly where pressure exposes structural weakness and execution begins to stall.
These awards reflect the clarity, precision, and real-world impact at the heart of our Leadership Recalibration Practice™ - work that restores coherence so leadership holds when it matters most.
HOW LEADERSHIP HOLDS UNDER PRESSURE
Systemic distortion stalls execution.
Recalibration restores coherence.
Our Leadership Recalibration Practice™ operates through five structural cornerstones - working across the layers of the human leadership system to restore and sustain systemic integration so leadership holds under pressure.
1. Distortion Diagnostics™
Reveal the hidden behavioural, cultural and decision distortions that weaken integration and stall execution.
2. Leadership Recalibration Interventions™
Intervene where authority, judgement and system conditions intersect - restoring structural coherence under pressure.
3. Culture & Collaboration Coherence™
Rebalance the human system - reconnecting norms, expectations and working dynamics so teams stop compensating and begin integrating.
4. Execution-in-Motion Support
Translate recalibrated structure into coordinated movement - enabling decisions to land, ownership to stabilise, and strategy to travel cleanly through the organisation.
5. Influence & Identity Integration™
Embed the authority, identity and influence patterns that sustain systemic integration long after acute pressure subsides.
Leadership Recalibration™ is not episodic correction.
It is continual structural recalibration - sustaining systemic integration as conditions evolve.
Why our model works for leaders when others fail.
We don't treat symptoms.
We recalibrate human systems.
What leadership looks like after recalibration
Leaders reflect
Steve Yardley - JGA Recruitment
Direct, tailored, and transformative. In just three days, Judith gave us clarity, new ways of working, and a leadership path to growth
Carlita O'Brien - The Government of Bermuda
Jude was able to analyse and put together a programme that was unique to my needs. The Amplify Impact and Influence Coaching Programme has been a transformation one-on-one programme for my professional life.
Cachel Hamilton - British Heart Foundation
Judith makes it personal and relatable and uses your real life examples to help you understand concepts. She doesn't tell you what to do, but rather gets you to think about what you can do.
Natasha Anderson - British Council
Judith made strategic thinking practical, turning theory into practice. Our leaders now feel more creative, confident, and effective in how they deliver.”
Why the Maverick Paradox?
Consultancies provide advice.
Training builds skills.
Coaching develops leaders.
We integrate all three - and operate at the structural level they depend on.
We are a Leadership Recalibration Practice™.
We work at the level of systemic integration - where advice, capability and development either align or fragment under pressure.
Through recalibration, Strategic Influence, Liberated Leadership, Executional Leadership and Culture by Design operate as an integrated whole.
When distortion enters the system, coherence weakens.
Truth bends.
Behaviour drifts.
Culture pulls apart.
Execution stalls.
We remove distortion and restore, integration, rebuilding the structural conditions leadership depends on
so it works clearly, decisively and without friction.
OUR FOUNDER
JUDITH GERMAIN
Judith Germain is the founder of The Maverick Paradox a Leadership Recalibration Practice™ focused on restoring systemic integration when pressure exposes drift.
She works as a Leadership Recalibration Architect - identifying where distortion has entered the human leadership system and restoring structural alignment before fragmentation becomes visible failure.
Her early career as a Director-level HR leader in complex organisations and her talent for integrating challenge, gave her something few advisers develop:
Structural sight.
She saw that capability rarely disappears.
It weakens when integration fragments under pressure.
- Authority drifts from judgement.
- Influence compensates instead of converting.
- Culture absorbs strain.
- Execution slows despite effort.
Where others addressed behaviour in isolation, she recalibrated the system beneath it.
From this insight emerged her work on calibrated influence™ and Leadership Identity™ - demonstrating that influence is calibrated motion, and motion only sustains when authority, behaviour, culture and execution remain structurally aligned.
Leadership Recalibration™ did not begin as a programme.
It emerged as a discipline.
A discipline for removing distortion and restoring systemic integration - so leadership holds as conditions intensify.
Judith is an international multi-award-winning recalibration architect, Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, and holds an MBA PgDip.
She is the author of The Maverick Paradox: The Secret Power Behind Successful Leaders, host of The Maverick Paradox Podcast, editor of Maverick Paradox Magazine, and a frequent contributor to the international press.