There is a 25-50% failure of assignment rate in expats sent to another country to head up the work there. The failure rates among others going through leadership transition such as those who are promoted, move company, move state or change career industry are not much different. Enter the coach.

Padraig O’Sullivan has been helping guide expats through this failure zone into both happiness and corporate success by “insuring” against nine known failure points using executive coaching. We have much to learn from this area.

Using the Marshall Goldsmith model of stakeholder centricity and his own PALDER framework, Padraig shows us how these ideas can be used in any setting of coaching at all when working with leadership transition.

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Ian Henschke from ABC Radio (Adelaide) interviewed Padraig O’Sullivan about the difficulties foreign leaders face when they come to Australia.

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When asked about what a new CHRO could expect in their first 100 days on the job, Padraig O’Sullivan, summed it up quite simply: “Everyone’s nice to you but no one wants to be your friend.”

In this HRD Singapore article, Miklos Bolza interviews Padraig about surviving the first 100 days in a new CHRO role.

Read the full interview here

Padraig O’Sullivan featured in The Sydney Morning Herald’s Business Day section, writing about how to prepare when considering an overseas work relocation. Read the article at the Sydney Morning Herald here.

A Deloitte survey of approximately 2500 executives in 94 countries found that overwhelmed leaders and employees are a global concern with implications not only for those leaders, but for their organisations as well.

In October 2006, in response to market speculation that insurance giant Suncorp was likely to make a bid for the Promina Group, its subsidiary insurance company Vero felt it had two choices: manage change or be managed by it.