I founded Purpose in Practice to help leaders & organisations to define & deliver their purpose.

By working with me,

🌟Organisations determine their guiding star

🌟Leaders generate clarity & momentum

🌟Teams connect strategy to execution

Recent work includes

💉 Health & human services: Developing 3-yr Strategy for Australasian College for Emergency Medicine; Exec facilitation and operational planning

🏛️ Heritage: designed strategy implementation & the initiation of a major public art project

🧬 Sciences: supported a new strategy for research commercialisation

🦉 Leaders: coached & mentored through mergers, stakeholder spaghetti & creative block

📈 Teams: facilitated awaydays: business planning, team cohesion, process design

What does it look like in practice? No cookie-cutter solutions! Insightful conversations, creative co-design, private advice, team exploration, documentation of reports & tools – all crafted to meet the challenges you face right now. Best practice is useful; applied practice is better.

My clients say

📣The way you have heard us and clarified our big issues is astounding, I haven't seen anyone be able to do this before

📣Rare to find a consultant who is creative, who takes the time to fully understand our needs & designs a method that works. Not just some process they push you through!

📣So many things you said in our last session, I have been repeating ad nauseam to all my colleagues & clients

📣I felt you ‘get’ us, & I was really comfortable how you showed the process like a drawing

📣An incredibly strong focus on values, & a drive to improve what workplaces deliver for their communities

Career highlights include

✅Leading the Pauline Gandel Children’s Gallery at Melbourne Museum, delivering an international benchmark for 0-5 year olds’ learning

✅Modernising an NFP: delivering advocacy triumphs & novel public programs while building back to confident solvency through COVID

✅Leading the intellectual & creative delivery of the A$150M Darwin Centre Phase Two

✅All the times I was the mentor & coach that a person needed at that moment

The strengths clients have seen in me include:

🏋️Intellectual & creative flexibility

🏋️Systematic, practical, outcome driven

🏋️Attentive, careful listener; a nurturing, challenging coach

🏋️The best asker-of-questions

🏋️Open, inclusive facilitator

🏋️Personable, kind, warm



Get in touch when you’re thinking to yourself

🤔How do we think more deeply about our purpose? And how shall we get it done?

🤔How do we bring everyone together & focus on ______ ?

🤔This is tough, I don’t even know where to start

Editor of Museum Musings
Paul Bowers

Paul Bowers

Consultant | NE Director | Leadership | Strategy | Culture | People | Process | Kindness | 🏳️‍🌈 | 🐕