The right minds,
the right tools,
the right moment.
We don’t keep a team - we build one for you.
The Maverick Paradox isn’t powered by a standing roster of consultants.
We design bespoke leadership interventions - and that means assembling the right expertise, diagnostics, and approaches for each client.
Sometimes that means a behavioural strategist.
Sometimes a culture transformation consultant.
Sometimes a full leadership ecosystem of facilitators, mentors, and diagnostics working together.
Our consultants have supported senior leaders across government, higher education, corporate, and charitable sectors - delivering leadership systems that work under pressure and create visible, measurable progress.
What never changes is our focus on clarity, courage, and measurable impact.
HOW WE WORK.
THE MAVERICK PARADOX TEAM
We are an adaptive leadership consultancy for complex environments.
Every project begins with your context - not our template.
We listen, diagnose, and design from the inside out.
From there, we draw on the resources needed to deliver what matters most:
- Specialist consultants, coaches and facilitators who understand leadership under pressure.
- Trusted diagnostics such as the Influence Blueprint™, the GC Index®, and the Leadership Identity™ Framework.
- Tailored solutions that integrate behavioural change, leadership systems, and cultural transformation.
Every project we design is grounded in the Four Pillars of Maverick Leadership™:
- Strategic Influence
- Liberated Leadership
- Executional Leadership
- Culture by Design.
These pillars guide how we diagnose, design, and deliver: ensuring every solution balances influence, clarity, culture, and execution.
Each collaboration is purpose-built, scaled only where necessary, and designed to create momentum that lasts.
To make that possible, we operate through a trusted collective network.
Every project begins with your context - not our template.
From there, we draw on the resources needed to deliver what matters most:
- Specialist consultants, coaches and facilitators who understand leadership under pressure.
- Trusted diagnostics such as the Influence Blueprint™, the GC Index®, and the Leadership Identity™ Framework.
- Tailored solutions that integrate behavioural change, leadership systems, and cultural transformation.
leaders who decide clearly, influence credibly, and execute decisively.
Every project we design is grounded in the Four Pillars of Maverick Leadership™:
- Strategic Influence
- Liberated Leadership
- Executional Leadership
- Culture by Design.
These pillars guide how we diagnose, design, and deliver: ensuring every solution balances influence, clarity, culture, and execution.
Each collaboration is purpose-built, scaled only where necessary, and designed to create momentum that lasts.
To make that possible, we operate through a trusted collective network.
Our Collective Network
The Maverick Paradox operates through a trusted collective of consultants, facilitators, coaches, mentors, and specialists.
Each one is hand-picked for their expertise and alignment with our principles - clarity, courage, and measurable impact.
We don’t keep a permanent roster. We build bespoke project teams from this network, matching the right minds to your context and goals.
Examples of the expertise we draw on
Leadership in motion. Influence with precision.
The Maverick Paradox
Judith Germain
Strategic Leadership PartnerDavid Chislett
Creativity PartnerZoryna O'Donnell
Neuroscience Informed Leadership PartnerABOUTOVERVIEW
Navigating Complexity
Judith Germain
Founder & Strategic Leadership Partner
Multi-award-winning leadership strategist and creator of the Maverick DRIVEN Leadership™ and Influence Blueprint™ frameworks. She helps senior leaders and leadership teams navigate complexity, build decisive influence, and deliver impact that lasts.
David Chislett - Creativity and Innovation Strategist
Helps leaders unlock creative confidence, build adaptability, and design systems that turn ideas into momentum. His work connects leadership influence with innovation under pressure.
Zoryna O'Donnell - Neuroscience-informed Leadership Partner
Empowering leaders and teams to apply the insights from neuroscience, behaviour science and positive psychology to lead and succeed with clarity, resilience, and purpose.
What we (The Maverick Paradox) can do together with you
Every project is a partnership between you and The Maverick Paradox – combining your context with the right experts, frameworks, and diagnostics to achieve lasting results.
With the right configuration of people, tools, and insight, we help organisations:
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Diagnose leadership impact, influence, and culture
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Design leadership systems that connect strategy, behaviour, and execution
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Deliver bespoke mentoring and development programmes that create sustainable change
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Develop leaders who can decide clearly, lead courageously, and deliver consistently
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Embed the frameworks and habits that drive long-term performance
Our proprietary diagnostics and models include:
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The Influence Blueprint™
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The GC Index®
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The DRIVEN™ Leadership Model
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The Leadership Identity™ Framework
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The Leadership Integration Framework™
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The Impact–Influence Matrix™
Our partners have supported senior leaders across government, higher education, corporate, and charitable sectors – delivering leadership that work under pressure and create visible, measurable progress.
The result? Leadership that delivers at pace, cultures that hold trust, and systems that move as one.
Influence isn't instinct - it's engineered
The Influence Blueprint™ helps leaders understand how their influence shapes, and is shaped by, the system around them; revealing where to focus to create motion that lasts.
EVIDENCE THAT
DRIVES CLARITY
We complement our proprietary frameworks with trusted third-party diagnostics that provide deeper visibility into leadership behaviour, creative thinking, and organisational energy.
We’re solution-driven, not tool-driven. Diagnostics are used only when they add value to the challenge you face - never as a default.
Each one is carefully selected to illuminate the insights that matter most to your goals.
Depending on your context, we may integrate:
- The GC Index® – measuring energy for game-changing contribution across teams.
- Young Person Index® – helping younger leaders and early-career professionals understand how they create value and impact.
- Foursight® – identifying creative problem-solving preferences to strengthen innovation and adaptability.
- DISC® – providing insight into communication and behavioural styles to improve collaboration and team cohesion.
- Sova Assessment® – assessing personality, potential, and performance to inform development and selection.
Whatever tools we use, or choose not to use, our goal remains the same: to help you see clearly, decide confidently, and lead with measurable impact.
Our Collective Philosophy
Transformation doesn’t come from templates - or from applying every tool available.
It comes from calibrated motion: aligning the right people, insight, and energy around what matters most.
Whatever combination of expertise or diagnostics we bring together, each intervention is anchored in the Four Pillars of Maverick Leadership™:
- Strategic Influence
- Liberated Leadership
- Executional Leadership
- Culture by Design
These pillars ensure every engagement balances clarity, courage, and delivery - connecting leadership intent with tangible results.
We’re not bound by process; we’re guided by purpose.
Every Maverick Paradox project is powered by a trusted collective of experts who think deeply, challenge intelligently, and execute decisively to create solutions that endure.
Leadership isn’t taught - it’s engineered.
Through context, influence, and motion, we help organisations navigate complexity, align culture, and deliver impact that lasts.
Every organisation faces paradoxes.
Our job is to help you lead through them - with clarity, courage, and results that last.
