CREATING CLEAR THINKING & DECISIVE LEADERS
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You’re doing all the right things. So why isn’t it landing?
You’re not lacking credibility - the system just wasn’t built to hold the way you lead. I work with senior leaders and business owners who are bold, strategic, and ready to influence on their terms.
Judith Germain
I mentor bold leaders to navigate complexity, rebuild their influence, and lead with clarity - creating deep behavioural change, sharper decisions, and impact that lasts far beyond the individual.
I personally mentor clients in the following way:
Immersive Mentoring
I offer strategic insight and guidance to help you resolve challenges and improve your leadership effectiveness. I act as a sounding board, confidant, and trusted advisor for difficult decisions.
Executive Mentoring
I focus on developing and enhancing impact and influence. Designing programmes tailored to individual needs, unique opportunities, challenges, and requirements
Business Mentor
For business owners and entrepreneurs, I help accelerate their impact and influence, grow and develop their businesses, and refine their core offerings for their clients. They become thought leaders in their field
Strategic influence needs a different kind of mentor
Clarity. Impact. Reinvention.
I work with leaders and business owners navigating complexity, reinvention, or visibility challenges. Together, we amplify your influence - not by asking you to change who you are, but by strengthening how you lead in systems that weren’t built to hold you.
Strategic leader
You’re ready to elevate your visibility, lead with clarity, and shift how others experience your leadership. I help you refine your Leadership Identity™, influence stakeholders, and lead decisively.
Business Owner / Founder
You’re scaling a vision and need deeper strategic presence. I help you align your leadership with your business growth - sharpening decisions, messaging, and execution without losing who you are.
C-Suite / Senior Team
You’re being seen - but are you being heard? I help senior leaders increase their influence in the workplace and beyond, navigate high-stakes decisions, and lead with presence and impact.
Regardless of your role, impact alone isn’t enough. "
The ability to communicate it with clarity and confidence is what drives real outcomes.
I’m known as a Strategic Leadership Partner - helping bold leaders and business owners recalibrate their influence, lead with clarity, and create meaningful change in complex systems.
The Maverick Mentor
Since 2005, I’ve redefined what it means to be a Maverick – not as a troublemaker, but as a wilfully independent leader who challenges assumptions and drives meaningful change.
For years, I was known as The Maverick Mentor – because I mentor mavericks, and I deeply understand how Mavericks think, lead, and operate. But you don’t have to be a Maverick to work with me.
What you do need is a desire to strategise wisely, innovate bravely, and execute with clarity – especially in complex environments.
I’m a Strategic Leadership Partner who works with bold leaders and business owners to:
- Rebuild influence when it’s been filtered or lost
- Lead with clarity, not performance
- Navigate high stakes shifts in visibility, identity, and decision making
As a Socialised Maverick, I’m known for challenging hidden assumptions and offering sharp, insight led guidance. My mentoring is bespoke, shaped to your context, and designed to help you become a clearer thinker and a more decisive leader.
I’m also the creator of Maverick Leadership, a discipline I pioneered to help leaders thrive through independence, integrity, and impact. My book, The Maverick Paradox: The Secret Power Behind Successful Leaders, introduced this concept to a global audience.
Everything I do, from mentoring to frameworks to media, is grounded in the four pillars of the Maverick Paradox:
These principles underpin how I help leaders shift their visibility, presence, and performance – not by working harder, but by leading with more of who they truly are.
Beyond mentoring, I contribute to the leadership field through speaking, writing, and podcasting.
I host The Maverick Paradox Podcast (ranked in the top 1.5% globally) and edit The Maverick Paradox Magazine, recognised as one of the best leadership blogs online.
Together, we’ll create the solution you’re looking for – not off the shelf, but anchored in how you actually lead.
If you want to work with me (but not mentoring) or with the Maverick Paradox Team for enhancing your leadership capability, click below:
Jude acted as a personal mentor and coach, helping me to think about work challenges differently, develop new and different approaches to dealing with them, and helped me to understand and come to terms with some emotional damage caused by previous employers that was affecting my approach to work.
Jude is a brilliant coach and mentor, she's great fun to talk to but she does the serious stuff brilliantly too. She'd forensic in helping you get to the core of an issue without ever interrogating. She's great at helping you come to your own conclusions rather than just giving you the answers.
Simon Amesbury
Head of Talent Acquisition, Checkit
If you want me to mentor you, then click below:
If you want to know more about me, the work I do when I'm not mentoring, including the awards I've won for example, then click below:
WANT MORE
IMPACT?
In complex environments, success doesn’t just come from making good decisions - it comes from communicating them with clarity and leading in a way that others trust and follow.
That’s the difference between leadership that moves things forward… and leadership that stalls.
I work with leaders and business owners navigating strategic shifts, visibility challenges, or influence breakdowns. Together, we rebuild clarity, sharpen decision-making, and lead with presence that actually lands.
Let’s work together to shift what’s possible - and lead in a way that sticks.
CREATING CLEAR
THINKING
AND DECISIVE LEADERS
Unlock your strategic influence and lead with greater clarity, presence, and impact - in your business, your leadership, or your organisation.
Through challenge and insight, I help leaders break through hidden assumptions and become clear-thinking, decisive leaders - capable of shifting culture, accelerating execution, and aligning others to bold, diverse possibilities.
My mentoring programmes offer the space, tools, and strategic partnership you need to strengthen relationships, communicate with influence, and lead in a way that actually moves things forward.
Because great leaders aren’t just visible - they’re influential.
That’s why I created the Influence Blueprint™ - a proven framework that helps you assess, recalibrate, and amplify your leadership influence where it matters most.
Want to explore what’s holding your influence back - and what’s next?
Click below to learn more.
The entire programme is structured around my personality and approach to work. This allowed me to shape my everyday nature in to a leader and influencer, that, in such a short space of time, I can hardly believe has been done with such natural ease and incredible guidance from Jude.
She approaches her mentoring in a simulated immersive style. By putting one in the situation and focusing on the position we can practice our professional approach and how to deal with our challenges,.
Mentee, Senior Leader
Jude is a great strategist who provided crucial insight and help for me to strategise for success. With the ability to challenge my assumptions yet build confidence by encouraging creative problem-solving with insights from her experience, Jude helped me think differently about my usiness/any situation, providing me with the tools necessary for long-term success, supporting me every step of the way.
My business now moves with a rhythm that;s unique to me.
Janet Houlis, Change Specialist
Feeling filtered out, stalled, or underestimated?
You’re not the problem - but the system might be. Let’s shift that.
This isn’t about doing more.
It’s about leading more strategically - in a system that finally reflects how you think, decide, and influence.
My 1:1 mentoring helps you:
- Rebuild clarity and traction
- Navigate high-stakes leadership shifts
- Be seen, trusted, and respected for how you lead - not how others expect you to
If you’re ready to recalibrate your influence and shift what’s possible, let’s explore it.
121 Mentoring for Leaders and Business Owners
Sometimes, even the most capable leaders need a sharper lens or stronger sounding board.
You might be:
- Stagnating in your role or business
- Frustrated with your current impact
- Looking to grow your capability and vision
- Craving strategic input and challenge - not surface-level support
You may need to deepen stakeholder trust, lead with greater decisiveness, or redefine your Leadership or Core Identity™.
Is That You?
If so, click below and let’s start the conversation.
Looking for Something Beyond 1:1 Mentoring?
If you need broader support - for your team, culture, or organisation - the Maverick Paradox team can help.
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