Firstly, you should know
I'm a sucker for writing in 3rd person.
Paul Charter, The Quick Version:
- Built 3 ventures from scratch (2 successfully)
- Built and led various teams over 22 years
- Experienced with change management and executive development
- Purely coaches CEO’s on self-awareness and interpersonal mastery linked to measurable targets
- Originally from London, still has some of the accent left at 40
- When not coaching: melts faces with the guitar, writes children’s stories and flies light aircraft
- Oddly afraid of heights
- Loves well written British comedy, podcasts that challenge the mind and vintage video games
The Not-So Quick Version:
Paul has always preferred a ‘let’s see if this floats once it’s already in the water’ approach to life. He left London just after Y2K with a guitar, $1200 in the bank, no sense of direction and a new girlfriend. Shortly after, the happy couple started a business.
It was all going so well until then.
2 years later, newly single, Paul continued to scale the venture and over the years grew it to multiple layers and a km square production footprint.
This second venture was a BIG learning curve. Hiring and leading others, winning and losing market share, overseeing brand, delivery, cultural development and somehow managing to both love and alienate family and friends all at the same time.
Some years later, now in Melbourne and following the study of behavioural psychology and psycho dynamic coaching (still melts faces like a boss) but with his business now operating since 2016, purely coaches CEO’s and principles in established organisations.
I asked him why…
“I do this work because I’ve been a CEO and not always a very good one. I didn’t gain perspective on how effective I was for my team or how I truly impacted production or our CX. I could be in my own head and sometimes more a problem than an asset.
The problem was I had mentors and advisers, but nobody that could help me see past myself and ask the questions no one else had the balls or position to ask. When I needed this stuff, I couldn’t find it. So, I built it.”
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