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🔥My name is Leon Purton. I am a military veteran and corporate leader with over two decades of experience leading in high-pressure environments. 

I partner with executives, HR leaders, and managers who are worried about sh*tty leadership hurting execution and morale, so they can sleep at night knowing their managers are driving results instead of driving people out the door.

I have seen the damage that poor leadership habits cause.

High performers leave, trust breaks down, culture turns toxic and results slip, even if on the surface things look fine. It is a slow leak that drains potential and burns out your people.

My mission is to break the cycle of sh*tty leadership and help managers build the confidence, mindset and skills to lead with courage, trust and accountability.

Leadership should ignite people, not burn them out. That is about protecting your bottom line and the well-being of your teams.

Through practical tools, targeted coaching, engaging workshops and keynote talks, I work with organisations to build leadership capability that scales. When you get leadership right, you protect performance, culture and brand. When you get it wrong, you pay for it in ways you will not see until it is too late.

How a leader thinks and behaves ripples out through their team, their culture and ultimately their business outcomes. When you shift leadership at its core, you shift everything around it.

I want to ignite the leadership potential in everyone.

If you are ready to protect your people and your results from the cost of poor leadership, let’s connect. I would love to explore how I can support you through speaking, workshops or coaching.

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A little about me

I’m the eldest of three brothers, and grew up on an 11-acre farm in the North West of Tasmania.

Always been a quick learner

If this photo doesn’t provide a background to engineering, I’m not sure what you need… We won the state Solar Car title and represented at the National championships.

I’ve found that one of my unique skills is the ability to consume new information and turn it into knowledge. 

Joined the Air Force at 18

Was a member of the Top Gun generation and joined the Air Force. Not as Maverick or Goose, but one of those guys that waved goodbye to the Aircraft. I was responsible for the Oxygen, Instrumentation and Flight Control systems on the F-111. 

After 6 years, I commissioned, completed a University degree and then led Engineering teams for another 15 years.

Did some things

I loved my time in the Air Force. It taught me many things, but the most important was that even in an organisation like the military, which prides itself on leadership, it can still be very difficult to thrive.

Yes. That jacket has elbow pads…

Now, I want to help you stop the impact of sh*tty leadership

I work with executives, teams, and individuals to shift leadership from something you do into something you live. My style is practical, honest, and refreshingly human. I’m based on the Gold Coast, still play a bit of footy, and believe the hardest person to lead, and the most important, is yourself.

Interested in unlocking yours, your teams, or your organisations capacities?

Don’t leave your people struggling instead of striving, reach out.

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