/ My mission as a coach is to

Empower altruistic, and ambitious people to lead their fields and industries for the greatest good.

We collaboratively explore and select your domain of leadership and expertise. We develop and continuously update your deliberate practice system to become a thought leader.

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Facilitate the integration of exceptional contributions to humanity while caring for themselves and significant others.

We not only want your ambition but also about your personal life to flourish. You will learn how to integrate your professional and personal life in synergistic ways.

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Nurture wholesome, nuanced, and exemplary personalities.

We do not only want you to be a thought leader but an overall wholesome exemplary human who thinks, feels, and acts in a way that inspires others to pursue their greatness.

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/ Coaching approach

Bringing together ancient wisdom with modern science in a holistic and integrative approach, using traditional coaching techniques and ideas alongside innovative evidence-based tools and models.

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Politicians

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Career Transitioners

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Managers

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Researchers

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Engineeres

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Consultants

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Creatives

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Directors

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Leaders

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I’m here for

Executives & Founders

co-nurture your aspirations, moonshots, and ideas.

My favourite thing is to:

co-solve your pains, problems, and challenges.

work with you to become your most awesome self.

help you add more value to projects you are already working.

My passion

To spark your ethusiasm for your life and your career, nurture your potential and gifts, caringly challenge you, and to empower you to move beyond limiting beliefs.

/ Work method

Combing skillfully deep knowledge and experience with a supportive but challenging approach to build tailored solution-focused sessions that help my coachees reach their goals promptly, effectively, and with long-lasting effects.

Areas of expertise

Benefits

Techniques

Approach

/ Process

During our sessions, we will do Q&A’s to better understand coaching, define goals, share insights and impact evaluations.

Onboaring

Helps you better understand coaching

Q&A

Helps us understand how to serve you, given your background and coaching goals

In-take

Sharing what we found works best in coaching

Best practices

What happened since the last session

Review

We determine exactly what objectives we want to achieve in a session

Goals

We will understand where you are and where you want to go and how to close the gap using various mental models and techniques

Work

We will specify how you can maintain and increase your level of personal development

Maintenance

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We will agree on action steps that translate the insights and actions into even more practical value

Actions

We will assess and reflect on your coaching journey thus far

Assessment

We will set goals for the next coaching milestone or quarter

Goal-setting

We will reflect on our coaching collaboration and evaluate the progress

Evaluation

Sessions

Evaluation

Closing

/ Coaching experiences

Strong background in evidence-based models related to humans development and cognitive, emotional, behavioural change as well as design, execution, and evaluation of effective evidence-based psychosocial interventions for individuals and groups.

Hours

Key numbers

Coachee

>500

Years

>7

Hours

Coach

>1500

Years

>6

Very senior coach that has expertise in diverse fields and knows how to empower many different coachees.

/ Testimonials

I can use many shiny words to explain my coaching approach, but only my coachees can describe the actual experience of being coached.

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Clinician Scientist

Coaching with Paul transformed overwhelming professional demands in communication, coordination, and prioritization into strong abilities to manage, motivate, and contribute impactfully while flourishing in my non-professional life. Paul is a role model for dedication to mastery and has my highest recommendations for any researcher, team-lead, or ambitious entrepreneur.

Maximilian Schonz

Coach | M.D. | Author

Coaching with Paul has been one of the best decisions I've ever made. Our 43 sessions (and counting) have enabled me to substantially increase my lifetime impact by making wiser and more audacious decisions that are aligned with my values and the change I want to see in the world (e.g., pursuing a coaching path and moving to a different country with sparse savings while navigating covid). Importantly, Paul has also enabled me to appreciate and cultivate self-compassion and self-determinedly discover what real happiness is for me — thereby, incrementally and consistently designing my masterpiece life.

Sebastian Schmidt

Machine Learning Engineer

Throughout our 150+ sessions, Paul shines as a coach with his thoughtful, highly demanding and compassionate style. Over the 4+ years that we have worked together he has significantly contributed to my personal and professional development. He guided me in making and implementing transformative career decisions, like switching from electrical engineering to machine learning. He also enabled me to establish my self-actualisation system and helps me embody my high and joyful standards. In our weekly sessions, he consistently shows up with prime dedication. And I can trust on his deep and nuanced mental models, apt communication, and genuine quest to enable his coachees to actualise their full potential. Thanks my dear friend! Looking forward to all the goodness to come.

Henning Bartsch

Medical Doctor & Machine Learning Researcher

Paul is a truly excellent coach. I had 40 sessions with him over the course of 2 years. In these, I made transformational progress on topics as broad as motivation, procrastination, communication, teamwork, leadership, time and project management, and decision-making. Paul's science-based and no-bullshit approach aims at long-term growth, not only fixing this weeks issues.

Jan Brauner

Director at Blue Horizon

Paul taught me quite a few of the mental models and (self-)management tools I use today. I appreciate his focus on (and vast toolbox for) long-term growth, which strongly differentiates him vs. your average productivity coach. Thanks Paul!

Friederike Grosse-Holz

Co-Founder & CTO at Bloom

Coaching with Paul had an incredible impact on my performance as well as my well-being. It empowered me to step fully into my new role as a company executive and make my team and myself thrive. He's not only a great source of useful knowledge and wisdom but also really made sure that I implement the big ideas and tools he taught me into my life. And that's where Paul's greatest strengths lie. Changing thinking and behavioral patterns for the better.

Daniel Lohse

Machine Learning PhD Student at Oxford

Coaching with Paul has been transformative. Across twenty sessions, Paul's systems-level approach to coaching has empowered me to implement several systems that produce sustained, long-term value. We have worked on self-compassion—more constructive, functional, and tender emotional functioning—longer-term goal-setting, developing masterpiece mornings and weeks, and much more. Regular reflection and discussion on progress, challenges and success with Paul have gifted me a greater sense of agency in my life and increased self-awareness. I find Paul a knowledgeable, kind, and well-versed coach—I would not hesitate to recommend working with him.

Mrinank Sharma

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/ FAQ

How does life coaching differ from consulting? Therapy? Sports coaching? A best friend?

Consulting vs. Coaching. We can consider coaching a form of consulting. Consulting is often more information and expertise based. For example, you might hire a consultant to help your business with a specific problem. Coaches may not have expertise in your field. A coach is a specialist at helping you improve your professional and/or personal life. Unlike many consultants who propose a solution and leave you to implement it, your coach stays with you to help you integrate the changes, new skills, and goals to make sure they really happen. This makes coaching effective.

Therapy vs. Coaching. Coaching is not therapy. Life coaches don't work on past-based issues or traumas. If you start life coaching and have not resolved an issue from the past, then it is likely you need to work with a therapist to resolve the issue. It is very common for unresolved traumas or addictions to stop us from getting what we want in our lives. Life coaches focus on the present and your goals for the future. We help you move forward and set personal and professional goals that will give you the life and career you really want. Most coaching clients are healthy, successful people who might be stuck or want to make a big change in their lives and want the support of a coach to do so.
Close friends vs. Coaching. Typically, friends are not professionals who are able and who have the time or the concentration to guide you through a structured process to achieve the most important aspects of your personal and professional life.

Sports. Life coaching often includes principles from sports coaching, such as being your best, doing more than you think you can, working with a team, going for the goal. However, unlike sports coaching, coaching is not about comparative competition; it is about incremental a better version of yourself according to your own standards and values.

The underlying philosophy of life coaching: If there is a gap between where you are now and where you want to be, then there is room for life coaching. Obviously, it is possible to close this gap on your own. However, coaching benefits are substantial. First, social and financial commitments increase motivation, focus, and seriousness about one's own personal and professional development. Second, a skillful coach provides a honed outside-view and goal-oriented processability and knowledge that leads to high-quality systems, strategies, and actions consistently. As a result, the gap between valuable theory and daily practice will be closed.