Our People

We are joined in our strong desire to see people flourish at work. Countless surveys in Australia and overseas show that 75% of people are not happy at work, yet we spend more time at work than at any other activity. In addition repeated studies have identified the number one cause of unhappy employees - bad managers. The economic and social costs of this are staggering and drive our commitment to help organisations develop their leaders so that employees can flourish and organisations become more productive.

 

Lynn Johnson, Managing Director
Lynn originates from the UK and immigrated to Australia in 1996. She holds a PhD in particle physics and has worked as a research physicist for ICI in the UK before embarking on a journey that led her from a career in management consulting to becoming the CEO of a charity and setting up Leadership Mastery in 2001.

Lynn has extensive experience in designing and implementing programs that help people learn more about themselves, make better choices and open their mind to new possibilities. Her focus over recent years has been to coach over 2,000 business leaders in gaining self-awareness, developing emotional intelligence and leadership flexibility.This extensive background in coaching has allowed her to develop the coaching tools and interventions for Leadership Mastery. Lynn is accredited in

  • Neuro Linguistic Programming (Master Practitioner - NLP),
  • NLP Coaching
  • Time Line Therapy (Master Practitioner),
  • DiSC,
  • Human Synergistics LSI

and a number of other coaching tools and techniques. She has delivered in excess of 3,000 hours of individual coaching and over 1,500 hours of group coaching to business leaders and managers over the past 10 years.

Lynn enjoys all aspects of travelling, reading, spending time with her dogs and cats, and designing and tailoring her own business suits.

 

Peter Lanius, Director
Peter originates from Berlin, Germany and immigrated to Australia in 1996. He holds a PhD in particle physics. Peter spent the first ten years of his career as a consultant and project manager in the IT&T industry. He held senior project management and line management positions in blue-chip companies including Hewlett-Packard, Telstra and Texas Instruments. Throughout this time Peter placed great emphasis on coaching his staff and creating successful teams.

In early 2003 Peter became a director of Leadership Mastery. Peter has a keen interest in leadership, behaviour change, human development, behavioural economics, neuroscience, psychology, coaching and change management. These interests have led him to attend a broad range of trainings and seminars and he put these learnings into practice in his consulting and coaching work. Peter has attained qualifications in

  • Neuro Linguistic Programming (Master Practitioner - NLP),
  • NLP Coaching
  • Time Line Therapy (Master Practitioner),
  • DiSC,
  • Human Synergistics LSI

and a number of other coaching tools and techniques. He has delivered over 2,500 hours of individual coaching and over 500 hours of group coaching to business leaders and managers over the past 7 years.

Peter enjoys travelling across the globe, reading, long bushwalks in the Outback, riding his road bike and flying model helicopters.