Whatever your goal, success demands a clear purpose, disciplined action and growth mindset.
I’ve navigated: career transitions, relocations, setbacks and successes; business launches, scaling, pivots and exits.
Having survived (just 😅), I’ve learnt to thrive by building self-awareness, structure and resilience.
I’ve mentored over 100 leaders and managers, and got my hands dirty in the military and startups.
Could you use some support to achieve your goals? Let’s chat.
My Story
I’m not your typical tech bro. 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.
Leaders & Managers Who Trust Me
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Services
Career Mentoring
Clarify your vision and purpose, then leverage disciplined action and a growth mindset to achieve your career goals with confidence.
Business Mentoring
Build a foundation of strategy, operations and high-performance leadership to achieve your business goals and realise your vision.
Fractional Operations / COO
Get a seasoned leader on your team, without making a permanent hire.
Startup Talent
Hire capable operators with the skills, experience and mindset to grow your business.
Operate with Purpose
Join a community of operators with purpose on Substack, for actionable tips to achieve your career and life goals with a clear purpose, disciplined action and growth mindset.
Connect with Me
Mentoring Approach
I offer a bespoke 1:1 mentoring programme to clarify your vision and purpose, then leverage disciplined action and a growth mindset to achieve your goals with confidence. The approach depends on your unique goals and challenges, using some core themes.
For career mentoring, we may work on: career vision, hero storytelling, self-productising, personal branding, job hunting, and role performance.
For business mentoring, we may work on: funding, product-market fit, strategic decision-making, business operations, and team performance.
Another core theme we usually explore in all programmes is leadership development, to build competence, confidence and impact.
By building self-awareness, structure and resilience, you’ll learn to leverage strengths and overcome blockers. You'll get leadership lessons from my military service, strategies from my startup and scaleup experience, and tools and tactics tailored to your situation.
With packages including on demand support between sessions, you’ll see fast results. I also leverage my large 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Startup & Scaleup Results
With actionable mentoring, I help you perform and grow.
- 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. ✅
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 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 is one of our best rated leadership coaches at Uhubs and we have partnered to deliver leadership programs for clients across the globe. Paul’s approach is highly tailored, he is a pleasure to collaborate with and my team has given only positive feedback. Paul has recently been delivering new manager coaching programs for a publicly listed US tech business.
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 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.