To achieve success you need a clear purpose, disciplined action and a growth mindset.
You also need to tell a compelling story about who you are and where you’re headed.
Are you struggling with a…
- Career transition or setback?
- Business launch or growth pains?
- Crisis of identity or imposter syndrome?
Having survived all these, I’ve learnt to thrive through self-awareness and imagination.
While getting my hands dirty in the Army and startups, I’ve mentored over 100 leaders.
Now I help business owners and operators become the hero of their story.
If you’re ready to become a hero, let’s write your next chapter.
My Story
Born in Salford, I studied at Oxford, worked in France and Russia, led soldiers in Afghanistan, then moved to London as Deliveroo’s 2nd ops guy. After we scaled the business 500x in 5 years, I went freelance, moved to Antigua and now support people globally. I’m passionate about operating with purpose.
Operators Who Trust Me
He is incredibly knowledgeable and is able to share great advice/suggestions. His passion to help others and innovate how he does that is really admirable and refreshing. He takes the time to really understand your goals.
I’d definitely recommend Paul if you are looking for your next gig or if you feel stuck in your career and want help to consider your options. I can’t help but feeling that it was partly his advice that helped me stand out among +500 candidates when landing my new (dream) job.
Paul was a pinnacle part of my transition from a military career to my first civilian role. His previous experience in the Army meant he had an in depth understanding of the personal challenges I would be facing as I tackled finding my new identity. Paul is patient, understanding and supportive.
Paul was a brilliant mentor. His operational experience, especially one rooted from business which has undergone extreme growth, was incredibly valuable. He’s also a top bloke!
Paul was a great coach to me whilst I was transitioning in to a new role. He has the ability to ask the right questions to get you to change your perspective. Despite challenging ideas I always felt that Paul truly cared about my progress and finding a solution to the problems I was facing.
Services
Career Mentoring
Clarify your career vision, turn it into an actionable strategy, and tell a story that resonates with those who hold the keys to your dream job.
Business Mentoring
Build a foundation of focused strategy, smooth operations and high-performance leadership to achieve your company's goals.
Operator for Hire
Get a seasoned operator on board to prepare your people and operations for success, without making a permanent hire.
Founders Who Trust Me
Paul is a wizard at what he does. He has a great way of asking questions that really make me think and get to the answer a lot faster than I ever could on my own. I am not a true Operations person, but Paul is, and I’ve already learned a ton from him.
Paul has become an integral part of the development of my business. His pragmatic problem-solving approach, combined with his experience in military and technology leadership, and his empathetic coaching style, make him an invaluable resource.
He’s one of the most logical thinkers I’ve met, with a brilliant ability to break down huge scary projects into more manageable chunks. I’d recommend him highly to any startup looking for guidance on operations.
Paul has added an unbelievable amount of value. He has a huge amount of industry and operational knowledge. A catalogue of first hand experiences has made Paul a ‘go-to’ on numerous occasions.
Paul is one of our best rated leadership coaches and we’ve partnered to deliver leadership programs for clients across the globe. Paul’s approach is highly tailored, he’s a pleasure to collaborate with and my team has given only positive feedback.
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Mentoring Approach
I offer a bespoke 1:1 mentoring programme to help you clarify your vision and purpose, then act with discipline and a growth mindset to achieve your goals with confidence.
Through self-awareness you’ll learn to leverage strengths, overcome blockers, and tell a powerful story that drives your career or business forward.
Your programme is tailored to your goals and challenges, based on core themes:
Career Mentoring
- Career vision, hero storytelling, personal branding, networking and performance
Business Mentoring
- Product-market fit, strategic decision-making, operations and team dynamics
In parallel you'll develop your leadership style to build competence, confidence and impact. The aim is to scale fast but sustainably, perform better and feel happier.
You'll get leadership lessons from my military service, strategies from my startup and scaleup experience, and tools and tactics tailored to your situation.
I offer on demand support in between sessions, when a fire breaks out or you get stuck.
I also leverage my extensive network to match talent with companies and vice versa.
My mission is to make myself redundant, so you can sustain momentum after I’m gone.
Finding Paul was a serendipitous stroke of luck that has profoundly impacted my career journey. Little did I realize that after working together, I would emerge revitalized, rejuvenated, and equipped with a fresh perspective on my past, present, and future AND A JOB!!
External, neutral and non-biased clarity on one’s situation goes a long way. Paul is the person to help you gain that clarity. He helped me gain perspective when I was stuck in a career transition and gave me a roadmap to move forward with intention which helped so much.
He has been instrumental in some of the decisions we have made… which have been a huge success! If you are looking for coaching or mentoring, Paul is the very best you could hope for!
Paul excels at breaking down complex operational projects and was an incredible support. I would highly recommend Paul to anyone looking for support in building or scaling their operations.
Startup & Scaleup Results
With actionable mentoring, I've helped over 100 leaders perform and grow businesses.
- Cleantech B2B – hired & mentored senior operators to streamline operations. ✅
- Healthtech B2C – launched Covid testing product, generating £Ms of revenue. ✅
- Last mile B2C – incentivised team to optimise operational profitability. ✅
- Proptech B2C – restructured team management to boost sales conversion. ✅
- Fintech B2B – redesigned onboarding process to increase retention. ✅
His personal drive to make the venture work seeps through into every meeting… This is only the beginning but, due to Paul’s personal input, we have made incredible connections and are set to scale.
Paul was instrumental to my career change journey and I highly recommend working with him! He asked all the right questions, provided guidance, and really helped me define my focus areas and what I truly care about in work. Paul provided the perfect balance of challenge and support.
Paul and I first worked together whilst at Sandhurst in 2010. Paul is an optimist, his positivity is contagious, he is a strategic thinker, calm under pressure and hugely reliable.
Paul’s operations knowledge allowed him to effectively question our assumptions. This was invaluable in streamlining our processes and schedule for our launch and ultimately saved us money and time.
He’s been very helpful to start this new adventure. I gain self-confidence to take the risk and get started. I recommend anyone that wants to make a career change to get some guidance from Paul.