What is Coaching?

Coaching involves partnering with a skilled professional coach to embark on a journey of self-awareness, acceptance, conscious choice and Empowerment.  Through deep intuitive listening a coach assists the clients in clarifying their goals and strategies and realizing their full potential as professionals and human beings.

Why CoachPaul?

Paul McGuire is an ACC credentialed coach with the International Coaching Federation (ICF), which is a Premier credentialing organization for Coaching.  He graduated from the Institute of Professional Excellence in Coaching (IPEC), earned his CPC certification through them and has been coaching clients using their unique approach ever since. He continues to build his coaching skills with an inherent belief in ongoing learning, which his clients benefit from in the customized coaching he presents.

Paul began his Coaching career after a successful 30+ year business career working for large multi-national companies and retiring as the COO of a highly regarded Pharmaceutical Ingredients company in the US.  He was born and raised in the UK, but his career led him to live in 4 countries, work in many more and experience at least 5 distinct cultural organizations in the companies for which he worked. This varied career helped him become a highly regarded leader in his various roles, developing people and learning from his highly valued mentors.  These experiences allowed him to develop a deep understanding of the challenges which go with building or optimizing a career, being Empowered (or not) and facing the reality of what leadership is.  This coupled with the premier training at IPEC has helped him to evolve into a highly attentive, intuitive, empowering, and empathetic coach.

Paul’s “second” career, as a leadership and transitions coach is built on this foundation of experience over many years. As he says: “We are all leaders in some regard, in whatever role we have in a company or family, so the coaching I focus on is helping clients understand their WHO, or inner purpose and passion, so that they may better deliver against the goals and strategies that they have, or want to have.”