Biography
Leon is fast becoming a sort after speaker, facilitator, mediator, cultural advisor and advocate across Australia.
As founder of charity Haka for Life, a mental health and suicide prevention organisation, he also an accomplished consultant across the FIFO industry, corporate sector and community frontline sharing his knowledge and expertise on Leadership, mental health, suicide prevention & post-vention, family & domestic violence, motivational mindset and cultural collaboration.
Leon has worked extensively across Australia having been engaged by leading mining and corporate companies. He is an established Ambassador with Lifeline WA, regularly engaged to represent their brand and message to metropolitan and regional West Australians. He also volunteers as a community Ambassador for R U OK? Day.
What makes Leon unique is his ability to rapidly understand and identify the conversations needed for workplaces, sporting teams, community groups and individuals. It’s one thing to see what needs to be said, it’s another thing to know how to say it, to cause the outcomes that produce positive results. No one group is the same, therefore, the same conversation to every group is not going to effectively cause the desired results.
Leon’s commitment to his own personal transformation and development, has seen him work closely with some of Australia’s influential business, political and communication leaders. By taking this knowledge and applying it to his own life lived experience ,this has enabled him to see and articulate knowledge from a refreshing perspective. He is not a box ticker, nor a people pleaser.
He is the Leader that is needed when Leadership is required, he is courageous when courage is needed. He is articulate, respectful and mindful in conversations that require delicate communication. He excels when working with teams and groups who require immediate motivational interruption, to refocus, upskill and intentionally cause immediate results.
He is also a father, grandfather, son, brother and friend, with a humility forged from life that understands the dynamics of everyone’s needs. You will not be disappointed in engaging Leon’s services, he is a man dedicated to motivating, inspiring, uplifting and empowering every single person he meets.
Leadership Coach
Leon’s leadership coaching is distinctly unique. It focuses on disrupting the way in which leaders influence. He explores behaviours and looks to create environments that drive actions of accountability and respect.
By drawing awareness to the power of language and its impact on leadership style, Leon’s approach takes the time required for people to stop and consider where they are at. He facilitates a review of a leader’s current approach to working with their teams and the environment they create to ensure they are authentically aligned with their own aspirations.
Through focused sessions, Leon will provide intensive coaching to assist people in mobilizing their influence and ultimately improve performance of the individual and the people they work with.
Some of the key focus areas include:
Identifying the values that drive personal leadership styles.
assessing behaviours.
exploring leadership and communication styles.
mobilizing networks.
identifying problems and exploring performance systems that inform us.
Workplace Culture Catalyst- PEER SUPPORT ADVISOR
Leon is a grounded and inspiring personality that has traversed arenas in both his personal and professional worlds. He mobilizes work that creates environments where people collectively commit to change and most importantly the actions that leave a lasting impact on the culture of teams, workplaces and communities.
Working with Workplace Peer Support Groups is a strength of Leon’s, having actively worked with Peer Support Groups for over 12 years in FIFO & Corporate sectors.
His grounded and humble approach immediately engages people allowing them to feel that they can connect and relate to him. Working in sectors that require the respect of the people often requires not only experience in the workplace but the authenticity, compassion and ability to create environments for honest, direct conversations that uplift individuals and teams to work collectively.
With lived experience and professional background in supporting mental health and well-being these experiences deeply impacted Leon and fuel his passion to create places where people thrive. His workplace culture work looks to build on values, behaviours, actions and systems that enable performance. Leon’s approach with groups explores behaviours and what are the key levers that influence and mobilise groups. He has been able to do this in a range of arenas, one includes the largest resources project in Australia’s history, the Gorgon Gas Project.
Key Note speaker
As an experienced speaker, Leon brings a refreshing, commanding, authenticity into any space which inspires, connects and engages people through his lived experience.
His raw honesty and vulnerability in his approach to the world, engages people in ways which disarms anyone. Because he’s travelled in diverse arenas culturally, in professional environments and lived experience of the most serious life challenges, this has equipped him to work with large corporate teams, particularly the FIFO industry. Other arenas include elite sporting industry and environments which are heavily male dominated.
Leon has spoken on a range of topics including: VULNERABILITY, REMEMBERING THE WAY HOME, BUILDING HIGH PERFORMANCE CULTURES, SETTING POWERFUL INTENTIONS, and CHALLENGING MASCULINITY.
Engaging with Leon to discuss your needs allows for a tailored approach of which he enjoys the most. He is a change agent who is committed to touching the lives of those he has contact with.
Mind Health Advocate
The most effective advocates are those who can speak from experience and with authority. Leon’s advocacy and guidance has been sought from thousands of people across the globe because of his lived and professional experience.
Leon is considered one of this country’s revolutionary advocates for Men’s Mental Health and Wellbeing. His advocacy spearheads the horrendous rates of suicide and health issues confronted by men globally. He was acknowledged for his leadership in this when successfully receiving the Most Inspiring Male 2017 – Men in Black Ball for globally promoting men’s mental health.
He is a staunch stand for life and what is critical in transforming the world around us.