Malcolm S.

Paul worked with me as an inspirational business coach in my capacity as Marketing Director and Team Leader in the Fast Moving Goods industry. He displayed a deep understanding of the interdependencies between effective leadership and successful business strategies with a specific focus on powerful techniques for personal development. My individual coaching program with Paul started with a journey of introspective assessment enabling me to understand the personal and environmental challenges to operating successfully in my leadership role as we worked towards tangible coping techniques and eventually some behaviour changes to perform in a culturally challenging environment. This process provided me with the ability to reframe the situation, claim back my own unique identity along with shifting my behaviour and attitude to be able to thrive within my leadership role. Paul went on to facilitate our Leadership Team workshops, successfully unblocking communication barriers and then introduced us to some practical tools to raise our standards to new levels of interpersonal effectiveness. As intimate and collaborative as Paul was he always displayed a high level of objectivity and professional conduct when dealing with personal feedback. He was never afraid to identify and tackle the toughest of issues and was extremely fair but always direct when raising individual performance. Paul leads by example and is ambitious when stretching himself and others to raise performance to the next level. He was fundamental to my growth as a person and leader over the time we worked together and years later he continues to initiate contact as a friend and colleague.