About Gerald

Professional Life

Gerald Pauschmann is the director and founder of The De-escalation Coach Pty LTD and 25 years ago he started to notice an alarming rise of increased violence towards healthcare workers, authorised compliance officers, local law officers and executives having to comfort those being subjected to this abuse.

Seeing a gap in the training being offered to council employees on how to manage such unpleasant encounters, he was Inspired to help after reading of a horrific attack on a parking attendant who had been assaulted for simply doing their job, he developed and created a program called "De-escalating Hostile and Potentially Violent Situations" and 'Resilience' training to build on communication strategies

He  has travelled to over 60 councils throughout Queensland, training over 9,000 council employees sharing critically important de-escalation strategies and techniques through a series of thought provoking scenarios, highly engaging and sometimes confronting methods.

With 28 years of training and public speaking experience and as a co-founder of the Institute of Learning Practitioners (ILP), a certified learning practitioner (CLP), a member of the Australian Institute of Management (AIMM) and an NLP practitioner, Gerald is a leader in the training industry and has become one of the most highly sought after to speak to audiences on how to handle dangerous and hostile situations in Queensland.

Personal Life

There is a great saying that goes a little like, 'do you live to work or work to live?'

In saying that, I haven't climbed Everest, got lost in the jungles of BORNEO, or won any Olympic medals. But I have climbed Mt Kinabalu, where I got a traditional Sarawak tattoo, trekked from the north of Peru (Colan) to Cusco in a 3 wheeled Motor-taxi, driven from the north of India (Jaisalmir) to Kerala in a Tuk-Tuk and raised over $50,000 for Animal Aid around the world.

I am a keen adventurer after having discovered the joys of riding my BMW 650GS when I was 'forced' to get my bike licence at the age of 60. During covid it was the ideal time to discover the Queensland backyard on my first bike the Suzuki 650DR.

I see so many people grabbing life by the proverbial and enjoying life and I am happy to say the material stuff in my life have little value to me but the memories will last forever.

Oh I forgot to mention...I bought a BUS.