I don't make leaders more inspiring.

I make teams more engaged & show leaders what’s in the way.

You don’t need someone to validate your thinking. You need someone who will challenge it.

You might be here if…

  • You were promoted for being right. Now being right is the problem.

  • You’re the last person anyone tells the truth to.

  • You’re working harder than ever, and the results aren’t moving.

  • Your team agrees in the room and does something else in the hallway.

Coaching

Individual Coaching

The habits that got you here - decisiveness, control, always having the answer - are often the ones holding you back now.

I work with senior leaders willing to look at that honestly. The work is direct, confidential, and anchored in your real decisions, relationships, and conversations. Not theory or homework for its own sake.

Expect to be challenged. Expect to leave sessions with something to do.

Team Coaching

Teams say the problem is trust. Or communication. It usually isn’t.

The real issue is what nobody’s saying out loud. I help teams surface it, challenge the assumptions keeping them stuck, and build the conditions for faster decisions and real accountability.

One conviction: coaching a senior leader without coaching their team is half the job. The leader changes. The system pulls them back. I work on both.

Why show up?

Most leaders are present. Few show up; fully, honestly, when it costs something.

Good coaching isn’t about having the answers. It’s about asking the questions that reveal what you can’t, or won’t, see on your own. My job is to make capable people more effective. Not more comfortable.

About Paul

I didn’t plan to be a coach.

I spent my first career as a Navy Cryptologic Warfare Officer, with senior roles at NSA and as Special Assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations. Then I held the seat myself: CFO, COO, and President across public, nonprofit, healthcare, and startup organizations.

A military friend dragged me to a weekend coaching program in Texas. I thought it was nonsense. By Sunday I knew it was my life’s work. I quit my job and started coaching anyone who’d let me the following week.

Today I’ve done 3,000+ hours of coaching with senior leaders and executive teams at Fortune 10, 100, and 500 companies worldwide. I’m an ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC) with Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC), and I mentor coaches pursuing their own credentials.

Availability

My practice is full - by design.

I work with a small number of leaders and teams at a time so each one gets my full attention.

When space opens, I offer it first to people who’ve been referred to me or who have reached out. I do not advertise, sell or promote my services publicly.