Mark Yettica-Paulson Short Bio 2025

Mark Yettica-Paulson is a Chief Director of Super Native Unlimited & Indigenous Queensland leader who specialises in cross cultural collaboration. Mark is a 2024 recipient of the Paul Ramsay Foundation Fellowship.

Mark is an Intercultural Leadership specialist from Southeast Queensland and Northeast NSW regions. Mark is from the Birrah, Gamilaroi and Bundjalung peoples with connections to Tanna Island (Vanuatu) and Scotland. Mark brings decades of wisdom from his career in leadership development, diversity and inclusion, and community education across the corporate, NGO, community, government and faith sectors. 

He has advised organisations such as National Australia Bank, Australian Football League (AFL) Indigenous Development programs and the Indigenous All Stars, Medibank, Australia Post and Foundation for Young Australians. Mark was also the CEO of the Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre and a senior leader at Office of the Registrar of Aboriginal Corporations.

During 2016 Mark was Joint Campaign Director for Recognise, an early public educationcampaign for a National Referendum to amend the Australian Constitution. Mark developed educational foundations for Australians Together workshops and presentations while in his role as Strategic Business Manager and key presenter. 

Aboriginal Flag love heart design by Mark Yettica-Paulson. The yellow sun in the centre is in the shape of a heart. The outer heart shape has black on the top and red at the bottom just like the Australian Aboriginal flag.
Love heart flag design created by Mark Yettica-Paulson for Super Native Unlimited
Mark Yettica-Paulson, an Indigenous leader from South East Queensland and North East NSW. Mark is from the Birrah, Gamilaroi and Bundjalung peoples.
SNU Chief & Indigenous leader, Mark Yettica-Paulson from the Birrah, Gamilaroi and Bundjalung peoples in South East Queensland and North East NSW.

Mark is currently the Deep Collaboration Practice Lead for Collaboration for Impact and a member of the Leadership Team providing direction and practice development on peacebuilding, healing, and equitable democracy initiatives for First Nations and other multi-cultural Australians. Mark is also a leadership and cultural facilitator for 5 Stones Leadership, an Indigenous Community and Christian Leadership program that is a legacy project of his parents, Reverend Graham and Iris Paulson.

In 2024 Mark joins the AIATSIS Council as a Ministerial appointment. Mark is also one of six Pou, an Indigenous Intellectual Leader and Knowledge Holder, for the Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity Program with the University of Melbourne and a key facilitator in the Social Impact Leadership Australia (SILA) program. Mark was the Custodianship Program 2021 Core facilitator for Creative Australia, formerly the Australia Council for the Arts. 

Mark is the creator of the Intercultural Framework, an Indigenous framework for navigating cultural understanding and interfacing with others. He also designed the Aboriginal Love Heart design used in our merchandise and inspired by Thomas Harold’s flag design.

In August 2024, Mark was awarded a Paul Ramsay Foundation Fellowship. This Fellowship will allow Mark to develop his Three Leadership Gardens project where he explores leadership collaboration across racial divides and brings conversations to the middle space. 

Contact Mark Yettica-Paulson here.

We are Super Native Unlimited

This is a red Super Native Unlimited logo, created by Mark Yettica-Paulson

Our Why

We are passionate about celebrating the dynamic culture of our First Nations and South Pacific Island communities. 

We strive to cultivate new relationships founded on generations of creative problem solving, reciprocity and care for land, water and people.

We believe that we are all ancient people, and when we know this, we can come together with empathy to listen and work with difference for radical transformation.

Intercultural Framework. An original artwork of 8 circles connected with tracks to illustrate different learning circles with the centre circles being spaces for sharing and learning from each other.

How will we do this?

At Super Native Unlimited, our values are:

Stand united

Cultivate belonging

Generate cultures

Lift others

Share power

 

These principles guide our consulting work, who we collaborate with and the services we offer nationally and to communities around the world.

This image is an aerial shot of the One Million Stars installation in King George Square Brisbane for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. It is a large circular design made with metal frames and strands holding a total of one million hand woven multi coloured stars. There are people walking around and through the star installation.

Our Projects

  • Creating Indigenous Australian / First Nations frameworks. Exploring colonisation, systems thinking, cultural maintenance and restoration, political leadership and collaboration.
  • Facilitating intercultural dialogue to strengthen First Nations, diverse and inclusive communities in Australia.
  • Leadership development, Public speaking and story telling, Community impact through the arts and collaboration.
  • Using our Aboriginal flag love heart designs to promote healing, pride and working together for the benefit of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
A close up image of hands weaving 8 pointed stars using colourful ribbon.

Work with Us

Mark is currently working at:

  • Deep Collaboration, Collaboration for Impact
  • First People’s Assembly Victoria
  • ChangeFest
  • Social Impact Leadership Australia
  • Place based, community led collaborations across Australia

Other collaborations include:

  • One Billion Stars
  • Pou, Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity. University of Melbourne
  • Five Stones Leadership Program, Australians Together.

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